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• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  mood has done a total 180 since then, so I feel I'm justified in talking a little more about the process that is consuming my life. Grad ... process, which is quite a bit different at the grad level than at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .) Friday seems so long ago that I barely remember it at all. I know for a ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing ... angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the ... July, you get sent a temporary housing assignment (this year, everyone got one of their top three choices). When you arrive on campus, a period

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... that night. I was actually almost asleep when I recieved a mysterious

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Upon admittance, I dedicated a fairly serious and borderline ... a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... . These can be earned in various ways: Classes: A typical PE class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  standing at the edge a lot recently. Or maybe it always seems that way but ... started an exchange back in Paris. It's a moment of cultural reckoning, 3 ... to MIT 3 years ago, I made a choice. And then I kept making choices

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... staff will be observing Pi Day 2025 — which, NASA tells me, is also a

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I ... nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a plan for IAP. A blissful period of rest, exploring Boston museums, baking

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... just scroll a Harvard Great Books class syllabus or something if you want

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  classes only. it was a little intimidating at first, i have never taken only ... difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  applying for [annotation note="global teaching labs, a MISTI program that ... UROP research ultimately won out. Still, I felt like I needed a break, a change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  Bangladesh, my childhood best friend’s favorite hiding spot from over a decade ... murals and the home of a trio of beaten-up, well-loved chairs. The bench ... can sit and watch the moisture in the air fluoresce on a foggy night

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  Have you ever wanted to be a performer but can’t sing or dance? Why not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... ’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  if I can really pinpoint where it first started but I definitely have a ... ability. Though I wasn't particularly overweight, having a close family ... incredibly aware about my own. I could make a whole separate blogpost about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  Monologues, a yearly production run by campus group The F-Word. It's a series ... about life as not-a-cis-man. All pieces were written by members of the MIT ... laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person—a ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those game bundles and started playing two weeks ago or something. It's a great ... on it and maybe convince you to play it too. Celeste is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... ,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art of making last-minute plans with people, attended a ton of floor events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020