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• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  midterms. Do your psets so you can get into a habit of knowing how early you ... not joining X or Y and instead just do it. If you have even a little ... do a kajillion extracurriculars because your interests are so diverse

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a ... a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a ... To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... distracting herself by marathoning a TV show (possibly Firefly, again), playing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  blizzard is coming up and hitting the Northeast real hard (Déjà vu).  It's a ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while ... us when we're sick, Is covered in snow, but only a few inches thick

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  awful humidity doing a little bit of... everything.   While I ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of ... business. Although I guess my sentence could still be technically correct--a komodo dragon could have an immaculate conception, assuming that it had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of ... called No Flip Flops which was full of pointers on how to survive a winter at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  first i said i wanted a system to decide when to do things for myself ... over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  't do that. It's like planning to bake a crisp and hoarding fruit months ... 'm taking Advanced Essay Workshop with him, and I've never cared about a class ... to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  the things they've been dreaming to do." I hope you got a taste of that ... myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like myself *points at the banner* (perhaps bringing a stuffed penguin with me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  other schools to which you are applying? Do you really want to write a ... Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter ... to MIT can be a barrier for those of modest financial means or those

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A ... other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  slightest idea of what to do with my life. I'd hardly have a chance to try ... committee has been doing this a long time. Even those that have only been doing it for a year have read hundreds of applications. They've seen and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  America and other lives that are not my own; they also have a lot to do with ... -graduation plans. I suspect I'll be doing a lot of exploring this year, and I can ... Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  book, followed by an in-depth review by a professor. And I do mean in ... experience, as opposed to some grand lecturing, but I do wanna say a few things ... For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  people realized I could draw, but I’ve started doing a lot of art since ... -ified"]Mitch’s[/annotation] eyebrows seemed to do some weird acrobatics for a good two minutes after ... *the footnotes are my current self doing commentary* :p   “hey

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  outside of that doing some additional studying. I could expect to start a ... wrapping himself under a snug blanket. “It’s late…you’ll do fine.” “Soon…” I ... later,” I told him. “Still have a few things to do.” I was about to start

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They ... mother shifted a few feet back and carefully positioned her camera. The boy

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was writing. Whenever I finish a piece for this class, all I want to do ... loved to do the most as a pre-teen with loads of free time: writing and ... drawing [annotation note="there was a lot of… naruto though"]all sorts of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  when you do, either! Enforce a separation of work and play, and know whom ... easier to simply channel yourself through what you do. It's a guiding ... Once a year, a different US city hosts the annual National Poetry

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011