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• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone ... that they’re capable of being an MIT student!” I mean really. Stop and ... thinking of majoring in?” and answer with what you’re thinking of majoring in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  almost 2 million subscribers on YouTube and TikTok. Yo-Yo is one of, if ... music. He even appeared on an episode of Arthur once, and if that's not ... episode of some video-podcast-like series, and as an MTA student, I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  on the work from Tuesday and Wednesday before all of my classes release ... on the side of the river and look out at the skyline and breathe. I ... science, math, and writing, so I've chosen the following mixture of classes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  After a lot of searching, I’ve discovered a video on YouTube that is ... you, and then they give you all sorts of free stuff as they prepare you ... you’re reading now. I got to MIT on August 19th and have been living it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the ... of lab experience: some have never even held a pipette, and others are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific ... charge of actually planning and running LLABs. [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  for our current members and alumni. the chaos started on Thursday, where ... hockey sticks, chanting, and strange content scavenged from the depths of ... impacted by the nature of the event. they did an incredible job, and it was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  field, because STEM is what consumed most of our classes and time and ... regard to us, and the projects we worked on made us so happy to be at MIT ... , in terms of confidence in our major, choice of MIT, and enjoyment of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  Biology recitation and lab. For eight hours a week, about a hundred of us manipulate E. coli DNA, sequence genes, and purify proteins as part of this lab ... results of my research. I made some decent progress on the Discussion

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  Finally back on the blogs, and it feels so good! (I'd normally start ... , and I figured some of you might be wondering what I'm up to the summer ... /Cambridge! During the school year, I don't have a lot of time to go out and explore

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  and analytical thinking. I took out a sheet of paper and wrote on it ... 's book author to speak, and donated a copy of one of his books to all of ... "They Came From Center Field," and it's about this group of friends who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... found more and more young people who are aware of MIT, and who sincerely ... spirit and the excitement of engaging with the worlds most pressing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and ... evolve into a running commentary on how terrible everything is, and then ... without falling asleep, leaving me with a total of an hour and a half before

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do ... started screaming and running around the kitchen. My parents are kind of ... was kind of hoping that would happen, and it did. Props to them.) Their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any humanities field (21), and any engineering field (E). We were recently messaged about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  me, and I was really worried that I would miss out on the closeness of ... is fun, and REX is exciting, but REX can also be a bit of a stressful ... course, 99% of the reason for this is that MY FRIENDS ARE AWESOME AND I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can reassure you that MIT does have humanities classes, and a lot of them are ... Chinese, ESL, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and only one level of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  on this, but it makes me sad. And the past 3 days of goodbyes have been ... important, and the hardest to put into words. I can be a pretty big critic of ... at the world, full of people who are all the same and yet all different

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  from experiments, and i could just focus on doing things. this past week ... on them. but they're small, and it's very easy to mess things up ... intensity of that week. i'm taking a step back and realizing that it was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025