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• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... see what you did with the options available to you no matter where you ... 's—we're really interested in the few things that excite and motivate you.  
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  memorization, but rather if you truly understand the metrial. MIT is dedicated ... groups, and the first year is graded on a pass/no record system. While your ... getting in the way of their schoolwork.
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now living alone, if you are not on the meal plan you have to make your own food, you now have the decision to go to class or not go to class, you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  you’re feeling like you need that, scroll below the bullet points for some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me. But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  station chic) lost my family's luggage. We ended up spending hours in the ... were beautiful, the Catholics cooked with their cathedrals, and I highly ... to the MIT Mystery Hunt team I run and orchestrating a series of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20 ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7 ... (Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings) that morning. After the review I had but ... on time Tuesday morning, so I can't tell you about the tour of Boston

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  tw suicide mention and angst!! to the skeletons in my closet ... ? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who was the first woman graduate?

  In 1873, shortly after MIT’s opening in 1865, Ellen Swallow Richards became MIT’s first woman graduate (and later its first woman instructor). Richards’ work testing drinking water supplies and water contaminants…
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who were newly admitted to MIT get to visit the campus and experience student ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  the morning so I woke up around 9:30am and then went to 14.01 recitation ... then Kelly who went to the 1pm lecture said that it was a guest lecturer ... ’s Friday. I watched The Bachelor instead. But I also cleaned the room which

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  them do their best to demonstrate this through the context of the ... the silliest assignment questions I've been asked here:   ... I thought this abbreviation of the word "Methods" was a very

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  All 42 cheeses I tasted in college i am a cheese enjoyer

  

  the cheeses I ever had in college. my final cheese rankings Vintage ... my favorite of the weird cheeses. Subtle grains of sweetness. Sharp hard cheesiness when the cheese is sitting on your tongue, light salty

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  to learn, and it's a bit like being dumped straight into the deep end. GTL? IFC? ADT? On top of the new place names and numbered courses, it ... 't know the exact words that they stand for, I usually know what entities

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  .1200[/annotation] was fun! But I digress. This is the first upcoming semester that I ... to Film Studies [21L.011] Archery, for the first quarter of the ... of the Communication Requirement in your major. Not only do you learn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad, but I wanted to compare the two experiences, with the caveat that I ... was a nightmare—the day the portal opened, the website crashed almost

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Sadly, I did not come up with the title pun myself, I saw it on ... me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post ... -deprecating way to put it, but I do think it's difficult to pare down all the ways I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt closure around what I was mentally calling "the Boston Chapter" of my life

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... campus: 1. alternate versions of our mascot, tim the beaver [carousel image ... ="aligncenter" width="279"] hey, that's not tim the beaver! that's kermit the frog

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021