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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  I tried. I’ve never felt like that before, and it was scary! Your ... struggled, gave me time to learn, and supported me even when I must’ve looked like a total dunce on paper. If I hadn’t reached out, it would’ve ended

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  meetings, but I’ve also gotten extensive one-on-one help from older members ... classmates as I do from members who’ve already graduated. I truly feel like I ... they’ve dealt with on RT. Not to mention, RT Design Reviews are a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating ... the niche I've found! And of course, we can't forget Sidequest 4. So all ... similar love to the one I have for research, and is the reason that I've

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  vast majority of my existence as a human bean, I’ve loved medicine and ... design I’ve been wanting to take way before even applying to MIT. Since it ... intro class to the field. In the class, we’ve had many interesting

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  you think about it, a very abstract term. I’ve always found it funny ... jobs I’ve had, and is not particular to any specific one (to avoid ... technique I’m not familiar with. You’ve probably done this for your parents

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  , though! I’ve been meaning to do some sort of college essay post while I ... it and b. It timestamps every single edit you’ve ever made on the ... later and still think, “Hey, that’s pretty good”, that’s when you know you’ve

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  have some pretty good stories! And they've all made mistakes and are like ... 's not a professor who we've interviewed, the hope is that the concept of ... : I don't like tea. Relationships with professors: I've been really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  could yield a foot, yards, miles. “Over the last year, I've spent a ... actually elected, I was so ecstatic. I’ve always been surrounded by ... future. I’ve learned more lessons through student government than I have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  /criticize anyone for what they've done. Instead, I'm going to give you the facts, as ... your top choices. We've extended the housing lottery deadline to 5:00 pm ... . There's-" I stopped myself suddenly. Last week, I would've finished that

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  ! Since then I’ve gotten stuck on three more Wednesday puzzles, but these less than perfect attempts just mean that I’ve found something new and ... though you’ve never been able to run at that pace for greater than seven

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  , though I’ve gotten more used to it. Problem sets in 6.005 happen in two ... spectacular as I would have liked. We’ve been through a lot together. I feel a ... moments that really stay: Those of you who’ve been with me longest know of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  I would be happy here - and certainly, I've had a good time. That said ... application (talk about the activities you've devoted the most energy/time to ... pretty much everything about the school I could find, I've found out that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  of the best modern games ever created. If you've never played before come learn the rules. If you've played a lot...well, people here have ... and see what's delicious. Bring your creativity-we've got the food

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  . Period. This is just a fact of life which I've known since I was a little ... 's just the way it is. Ask anyone. I've known and understood this since I ... my high school graduation they've added another one in biotechnology

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  probably won't get this unless you've watched her shows), and Jennifer Hu (an ... : woah, I've never seen a MIT paper bill =p). Then the girl who was an ... pretty tame. I've heard of some that require you to take off your clothes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  fill out our forms as completely as possible. Mike W wrote, "I've been ... program and the source code (with comments, if you've commented your code ... at MIT I don't think?) - is that really bad?" It's cool that you've

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  ?" No, that's the first time I've heard that. A few I have heard before ... with the college at which you've enrolled, you should send us a letter ... their E3 card, and even then the comments are removed. As I've noted above

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  class. As I've written before, our overall admit rate this year will ... Engineering] working with this lottery I've been hearing of? Is it possible that ... competition I participated in late last year (in May of 2004). Now that I've

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  my personal projects. I’ve wanted to attend MIT for years and I was ... /astro research. I’ve always been fascinated by space and flight, and as a huge Star ... time here so far, I’ve learned that one of the things that makes college

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  the time of writing, I don’t think I’ve untangled the underlying ... recently, I've been putting in effort to build in tiny sidequests, things ... in control of my time. I painted frogs on my nails, and I've planned a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025