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• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  daily burden and I often wanted to hit it with a sledge hammer since it ... , baby. 2)Large beds- College dorm rooms are all fitted with "extra long ... 4,050 sq. in. of plush mattress. Here, I get a squeaky 3,120, with a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  so much that I've become personal friends with the teen librarian at my ... with bad special effects (Friday the 13th). A good friend of mine (Katie ... with SAT scores that he knows mine better than I do), but they bother me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  day, the COVID Pass app got an update with the estimated wait. Last ... me with a plastic-wrapped swab. I head into a testing trailer. Two ... , the lab is great, and the UROP I worked with is great too! But it just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  be reviewed in full with your entire application. To answer your ... going on. With test scores, the last test scores we can consider for early ... you do with those words. Remember, it is the only place in this whole

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to ... ! chat with me in the comments below, email me, etc etc"]one-way method of ... interactions with high school and college students these days — whether talking

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  times, all for trivial reasons, and I felt more and more incompetent with ... -slightly-unpleasant things that normal life entailed. I lived with two roommates in the fall ... compensate for my low homework grades with higher exam grades, but then I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  class that doesn't connect with you.) This will not affect your chances at ... your voice and talk to us - connect with us. Tell us who you are, tell us ... with the Pakistani students or the American students?" We will accept

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  (it takes a long time to compile these, even with the brief answers ... in the archives if you look for titles that start with "Meet the ... your experience with admission regarding people with low Verbal/CR scores

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  floor, maybe even passionately make out with said airport floor ... tasks at any given time, with completed tasks being erased to make room

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  an original novel series by Isaac Asimov with the same name that I have ... obsessed with space exploration shows. Used to watch it with my family and ... . But on top of that he has a lot of interesting relationships with people

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... , waltzing with the warm sunlight. [carousel image1="113865" image2

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not, sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of ... ’s head over there and meet up with our next tour guide: Natalie B. ‘25

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive ... -themed floormal party. With a giant beach poster covering one wall, tropical imagery

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  student)[/caption] research group chat All evening, my [annotation note='with ... next many years in the US!" "WOW GUYS you can see it with your bare eyes

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  ; Several months back, I realized that I wasn’t “toying with going to grad school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... . Like what! Like wow. Writing MAs and MFAs come with a hefty price tag

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  to explode enough. Something with hormones, I think. If you know what I ... compromise with myself. It's too late to cram everything I wanted to do today

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  with status, who wears success like luxury cologne. I didn’t say this to ... enough at those interests to be rewarded with some extrinsic markers of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  footsteps with theirs plodding the ground with the same rhythm, in some

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... grappling with the same struggles over and over again, each iteration ... , but they’re also things I’ve chosen to carry with me; they’re part of me

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  brace for impact and hope for the best. You have to fall with them a ... terms with the fact that that’s okay. I genuinely value the experiences I ... with seemingly no justification. The onset of the pandemic and the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022