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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  often submitted by a counselor or school official alongside the required ... these letters from the people who know you best and can advocate most compellingly on your behalf, whether or not they have taught you the most
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT ... good way). It’s one of the reasons why I’ve written so many blog posts

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the other side of the table feels both intriguing and odd.   [caption

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet, they also knew just how stressful the MIT culture is. It's not that the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... st.  three years ago, my sister wrote the November Rule blog. a year later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... years later, I started learning dances from the choreography videos of ... creating my own dance videos was so fun for me. Over the years, I’ve learned

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a ... 's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That ... out before the semester even starts) to absolutely nothing (and suffer the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  thing I love more than the song [annotation note="Mariah Forever! (Jeremy ... Slack screen, and typed “Petey, I got you.” Considering the title of the blog, you’ve probably figured out that Jeremy finally told me the release

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete as a group (like walking down the infinite with a rainbow parachute

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  The summer before starting at MIT, it seemed like all the freshmen ... July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... who may feel the same way! At MIT, each semester begins with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... the treacherous requirements each semester spits at you, but there's a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs ... that it was once not obvious that people would come to the blogs any ...  Instagram now. The account is curated primarily by my colleague Holly, who will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  innovation might just be for you: That's right, for the low price of free ... of MIT students' social interactions or the next Facebook - if it's the latter, let's just say that I knew it would be successful from the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are ... you can only see it if you want to and you highlight the text:  

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens with hexagonal cross-sections at various angles, the physical properties granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of ... students whose November SAT scores have not yet arrived, because the College Board has not yet released them. If you ordered a score report from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  (and occasionally even current students) saying basically the same thing ... can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... them that makes them incredible. And the surprising conclusion I've come

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011