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• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  bloggers. And I am so excited for you to get to read their work! [image ... finally, thank you to everyone who applied. It was a privilege to read your words and look at your art; it's not always easy to share your life with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to buckle down and get seriously serious about my education. When ... to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high ... - great! - but know what you're getting yourself into, and don't deceive

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  for the meeting, however, so we stopped by the side of the road to look ... get back to more stable internet connection. Aaand literally as I just ... share a lot of similar goals in getting the children to love learning

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  figured it'd be a good time to get back into this regular vlogging routine ... IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs ... hopefully IAP means I have more time to actually execute some of the blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... that may be six, since I'm still waiting on one. You do want to get involved in research early. Some students wait until their senior year to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in ... chocolate to get myself to write those essays — you can have another dark ... by itself.   Instead, I would tell her to be kinder to herself. It

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus ... graduation. I know what it’s like to move to an entirely new city and state. I

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

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  require a deposit to secure your spot. If you get into MIT later in May, and ... does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it ethical? You do need to let other colleges know by May 1, and you should

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  a time?? -Alison"] All right, story time.[/annotation] I was hired to work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... note="TO BE FAIR you were like can I subscribe to your mailing list and I

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  enough to get Jeremy '09 in our suite this year, who idolizes Mike Short ... eventually moved to the bathroom. By popular request of the suite, we did ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  auditioning, and get interviewed.  If you are selected to be on Jeopardy!, you ... to the Green Room, changed clothes, and he/she and two new contestants ... earlier this week: Computer Program to Take On 'Jeopardy!' YORKTOWN HEIGHTS

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  who were willing to take the risk and get their hands dirty. 3) You’re ... "]EECS[/annotation] department, I’ve noticed that it’s easy to get funneled into one specific kind ... a team who wanted to learn how to build an autonomous car by building

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  goes to whomever gets first post (make sure you put your e-mail address ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... about. But I was lucky enough to get into [annotation note="MIT, if that ... salty about. It's REALLY HARD to get into all of those schools. Flash

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... Regular Action applicants are about to. So what do we do next? Once your applications are complete and all material received, your application goes to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  place where i've felt settled, where i know how to get around without ... things that get done with them. i started writing that sentence, only to ... blogs was. I like to think that people are defined by two things — the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through face-to-face conversation, but via email. I get email from my dorm, from ... another day. Will I ever get around to writing it? Time will tell!

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  't get me wrong: I'm fascinated by aspects of all of the sciences with ... , 24.900 will allow me to get some provisional answers as to why, even as ... parents speak fluently, I am able to get the gist of their conversation

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... note="because it's like, really close to east campus. temptingly close

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  I managed to get myself through the start gate. I have no memory of ... proud of myself. If you want to get better at something fast, do it six ... Washington to get to the Tuckerman’s Bowl. The hike up is worth the ski down

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016