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• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  resemble the campus I fell in love with, the one I encountered in this same state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits ... unassuming moments of the weekend that stuck with me the most. I was alone

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  Ben O. '19 and I decided to team up to talk about all the dance teams ... Mocha Moves in Fall ‘19 and are members of Dance Troupe, but I’ve done it ... dancing at MIT a lot longer than I have, but since we’re both pretty

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  If you’re applying to MIT through QuestBridge College Match, simply complete and submit the QuestBridge Match application. If you’re named a QuestBridge Finalist and ranked MIT, your QuestBridge application will…
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  blog! Back then, I was a starry-eyed over-caffeinated food ... at MIT, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do after college, so I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  afterwards, I went home, logged onto my dad's PC and looked up the music video. I firmly believe that Carly Rae Jepsen changed the trajectory of the gay rights movement forever with that video. (And also, whenever I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my ✨first college spring break✨. Like many MIT students, I decided to travel

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  the Spanish grind, baby!! I am very excited for this class, especially because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... just needed to take a CS class this year and I heard very good things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  I've been very busy this semester; this is entirely of my own accord, and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a post about how I’ve been managing is coming at some point, but that point

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  Killian court with my East Campus compatriots by my side. I’m smiling, I’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... ! Suggestions welcome--I’d actually like to have way more than 10 books, maybe

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  Aaand… Semester #3 is done! I’m on the plane back home, music ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  Full disclosure: Regarding the tagline: I have no idea how to write an ode. To be totally honest, I'm not even really sure what an ode is. I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  "I think that I could make a black hole," Carl says. I raise an ... goes off, his hands come apart, and when he beams I notice that he's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  Last Friday afternoon, I - like many of you - learned of the awful ... Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  Kevin Rustagi '11 is a designer, entrepreneur, and musician whom I ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it ... . MIT is an extremely fascinating place. I think most would agree. But, as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  inevitably reach for a whiteboard marker, which is why I've never seen a blank ... ORGO! YOU SHOULD ASK ME MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT ORGO!!!! I LOVE HELPING PEOPLE WITH ORGO!!!!" I guess Particularly Enthusiastic Chemist didn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  , but four physics problem sets per week hurts even more. Perhaps I ... .07): Having spent 6+ hours on the problem set already, I'm reluctant to drop this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  landmarks. Well, here's why. So I got to MIT three years ago and I found out ... next two years, I decided that if I didn't learn a foreign language, I would be an utter failure as a person. I was losing my tenuous grasp of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few ... if you still had a pulse." I still don't think anybody got all of the ... general questions posed recently in the comments. Mia :) -- "Hey Sam...I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006