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• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  with a fun academic summer program. Many of the best summer programs ... , Entrepreneurship, and Science (MITE2S), which the website describes as "a rigorous ... , and Caltech -- which the website describes as "a rigorous academic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you who were at CPW, what did you enjoy most? What was good? I've heard a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex ... that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c ... ’s The Tau Manifesto. I encourage you to read it for a deeper, more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... just like 6.2050, there’s a big final project that I’m excited about

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  intern. Their Explore program is a 12 week internship broken up into two ... software engineering or not and it was a really difficult journey but I ... basically had to do a lot of networking and running around and cold DMing and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me ... my decision, I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking. There’s much to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting ... mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on ... ! part 1: getting to class 8:50 AM: My first alarm—a primer alarm, just to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  A few days ago, I called two of my dearest friends, Asia and Daymé, to talk about their experiences as a WISE student, host, and admissions ... after their junior years. A professor at the university where Asia was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  these were from home. Now most of them are more recent. Bottom left: A cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I traced with green marker at a kids’ arts and crafts space with my little

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to wow students as there is with a state school or a small liberal arts college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note ... a UROP for [annotation note="Independent Activities Period - the month ... that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and ... for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  a joint post with Admissions Officer Jeremy, we stan Song: burnt ... than if I had been actively stressing about the wait"]A short while later ... stop spinning for just a moment. I didn’t know what direction my world

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the observatory. There were murals on the walls in a manner that distinctly reminded ... I know who really likes penguins (enough that she joined a sorority

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  At MIT, one inevitably collects a lot of shirts. Like...a lot. There ... -college life. You also realize that a lot of the shirts you've been hoarding carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my halfhearted attempt at keeping a Trello last fall. [caption id

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... FPOP. We caught up for a bit, reminisced about how quickly time has flown

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice that sounded like this ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... -achieving peers. I did not have a unifying passion, just a handful of scattered

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015