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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot of great questions about the partnership—questions like: “What is STARS

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the things I’ve learned to value, through the eyes of my younger selves to now ... , there are “better things to do with my time”. I’m proud of the fact that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  [caption id="attachment_85857" align="alignleft" width="2560"] (the lighting was way better from this side)[/caption] one of the hazards of ... to the next phase of my life. I’m excited to say that I’ll probably be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I ... wanna graduate on time. The only problem is that there are so many cool

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is versions away from the Afeefah that is sitting in her childhood bedroom

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets ... . These are the unmistakable signs of application reading season. If you’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  Spotify Wrapped day and the festivities surrounding it happened a long time ago. On that very same day, I asked the bloggers to share their ... slides, but it also seems like people often don't agree with how the data

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on something other than the IV sticking into my arm. I noticed a particularly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  For the past six years or so, I've been a desk calendar addict. You know, the ones that have something to read every day, and you rip them ... them as presents at New Year's now - I've gone through The Far Side

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... is an issue that I am passionate about, and I really appreciate the ... For as long as I can remember, the world has been a scary, anxiety

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo ... 's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I felt a connection with the team who would review my application.  I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break, I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don ... think two or three nights ago we were at the Floor Pi Discord server just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  Over the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of many people around the world, including our prospective students ... responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... that was free. During January, ESP was asked to clear out the room where ... them to another room. Then on the first weekend of February, the weekend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of ... Annie:((("]graduated.[/annotation] This and the influx of new faces have shifted the culture of my living space, and I find myself not willing or

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  competitive high schools, ran the college-admissions rat race, and kept running ... Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky ... that time. When the opportunity came to spend a semester away from MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016