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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Spring to Late May - (Can join mailing list at link for more specific ... Description: Program for high school juniors to conduct research with mentors at ... difficult for those who may not even realize the immense potential of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  population because: 1) I've never learned to code* at MIT (requirement for all ... longer can study for exams at 10 PM the night before) Also, figure out ... at the end. :'( As such, it is almost impossible to cram for any exam

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships at the [annotation note="like microsoft, apple, google"]big tech ... relevant experience for. A lot of people shoot their shot at literally every ... might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  -800” “For MIT and Brown, try to bump up your SAT to at least 2200.” “you ... across College Confidential. At first, it seemed like a rare gem - a unique ... applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  China in June, UROPing in Boston with a surprise stint at some Google ... by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... needed to fulfill my HASS-Arts requirement (we’re required to take at least

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  summer visiting China, UROP-ing for Mediated Matter with two weeks at Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my ... wasn’t very reasonable with him at first and refused for a while. But

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  stopping by my desk regularly for casual conversation. I was confused at ... ask your boss if it sounds right. For crying out loud, you Google it. I ... tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... to shape it. Thank you for it. :) :) Hope things are good at your end ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  holing up at my desk for just one more hour, then another, trying to ... note="I’ve never turned my rambling not-intended-for-blog into blog ... that system but I didn’t. I liked physics C for itself but I also liked

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... 746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at ... state, and having the same damn last name isn’t enough—at a blogger ... ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  internship at Rutgers University, for which I pretty much functioned as a data ... -year-old kid in the park laughing at us from afar.   For Digital ... dating for four years now and we’re both rising sophomores at MIT and I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve changed during my time at MIT, and I ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  , BANANAS (Believers at New and Next and Simmons), and even one dedicated for ... For God. During this event (and also at various points throughout the ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... gut reactions were: Tinder for startups? Isn't that AngelList? Or YC Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  campus for us: the Margaret Cheney Room. I've studied at a lot of lounges ... -off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women ... .  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  , and maybe even more across the nation, yelling at me for my apathy, “You ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  tone and style for being Gamemasters. At some point during website ... ’s worth of Google Sheets."]we introduced “dashboards”[/annotation] for each ... deciding a deal for Endgame, so that everyone would at least win $150. We

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  eating upperclassman-cooked pancakes with too much syrup at four in the morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all ... Sure, you've had ice cream before. But now you're at MIT—it's time for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013