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• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  'll come, but I don't really want to see the glass flowers [more on these ... was a semi-sullen teenager, who was maybe not exactly thrilled to be on ... glass flowers a lot for me this time around: The docent: on my previous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  picture on Instagram. Minneapolis and St. Paul turned into my stomping ... why. I should have. It would've been so easy--shooting her a DM on ... game that we used to be obsessed with. She was going on vacation and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  After a year and a half on a forced meal plan, I have now been freed ... the rice and some water, mixed, and kept it on cook. After a few minutes ... measuring cup for rice with the oats and just follow the line on the pot. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  lecture videos one would see on [annotation note="MIT Open Course ... snowball of second-guessing my answers. In most humanities classes, on topics ... bad questions or [annotation note="big emphasis on very"]very wrong

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  formal CS class, and yet I have spent the past four years working on one ... passionate about doing things hands-on or building things. But I also think ... aerospace for less hands-on things: a lot of modeling and CS, some data

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  even just students in general. This was a confession posted recently on ... sitting at my desk in my room and Emma, Aidan, and Raymond were sat on my ... every magnet on the fridge, in every stupid little souvenir. Hell, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  and discusses a lot of interesting topics on how AIs use maching ... our own!) computational model and write a paper on it, which i'm excited ... should apply to the Media Lab for grad school. stay tuned on that. East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  got a low grade on an assignment in a science class and the teacher ... MIT. I did my best on it, I just did badly anyway. My classmates ... dumped on by the jerks in my high school class. So whenever I was asked, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  , we are building on MIT’s established leadership in these fields to ... * advance pioneering work on AI’s ethical use and societal impact. Most ... teaching and research on relevant policy and ethics — to better ensure that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by Phoebe (@phxbe) on Aug 14, 2014 at 10:56pm PDT (I haven't updated ... , and I am good at it, so it's okay that I spend my time on these other

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  weekend and I can give you a sticker, too. It can even have glitter on it ... on dumplings. Come learn the basic fold, or just perform a metabolic reduction on food. 13:17 - 14:17 LN2 Truffles and the Chocolate Nash

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  from the MIT admissions blogs - sitting on mitadmissions.org and ... itself on my transcript, and my application will be tossed in the trash ... frenzy on my decision day. Why, exactly? When I forced myself to articulate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... ), which before had annoyed me on plenty of occasions, and the podunk central ... reruns of The Office on Hulu was fun, but it wasn’t the same. Nothing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  their grandmother. However, it's time to move on with this blog post ... years) picture of me.Moving on, really. By now, you've probably forgotten ... dormitory. I started working heavily on a project, and treating it like work

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  scrutinize....I can go on and on. The most enjoyable thing about HASS then, in ... focuses is placed on teaching you to SPEAK, rather than just read ... . Although Spanish classes here are also focused on interaction, I found the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... on campus. All over student groups and living groups are hosting ... country, or even allow people to think on a more national level. This

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  the required standardized tests on or by the November test date and ... , getting the MIT application done early so they can focus on other ... congratulates them on their acceptance. Inside the tube is the acceptance letter

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  come from every dorm and other living group on campus and represent ... . Whether you want to explore dorms, go to a fraternity party, sit in on ... much going on! Even if you're going to be a guest blogger, I'd recommend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  “local”–generally involves being born and raised on island. I was not born ... my identity exclusively with hobbies, all on a little charm bracelet ... Sci Oly teammates. I thought of fastening the clasp on a friend

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  ="MIT technically allows this. There's no cap on the number of classes you can take ... (technical skills and mathematical maturity), before moving on to the meat with ... note="CI-M requirement"]focuses on technical writing[/annotation] and (4

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025