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• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in ... put in a lot of time and effort to take college classes or take on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  the city through the eyes of people who love it. You are living here, on ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... 'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... information I left out of the story so far is what I actually do at my job. On

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  of space—apparently, i had entered the coordinates wrong. on the ... benefited from experiencing more of mit while i was on pnr, and the advice ... ” on a near infinite number of other things i could be doing. this is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and the sides of the heart. Happily this worked on the first try! Now ... dragon[/caption] On the first or second day of class, the prof showed a ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  down” “Pants on fire” There are so many figures of speech involving ... fast paced nature of computer science research. Conference peer review ... determined based on descending amount of contributions."]third author

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  for presenting recommendations to MIT administration on the needs of ... everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor is on that single spectrum. Houses would be painted black and white

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... fast approaching, so I hastily worked on my Common Application, and sent ... glimmer of hope induced by the relatively lower scores on some parts of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  dorms are all on the western half of campus. There are reasons for the ... there was plenty of space on what land they did own. When the decision was ... placed near that first dorm. So why are all of the other dorms on the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT ... environment with lots of other people focused on their own lifts. I find that ... [annotation note='another institute gym, located on campus proper']Wang Fitness

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  of difference. Do laundry in the afternoon on a weekday. You will have your pick of all of the washers and all of the dryers. Depending on your ... upperclassmen, other students, professors, grad students, etc… On the topic of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  ='See this Tech issue; on the bottom of the second column in the top article.']on ... prospective freshmen" message on top of its issues during Campus Preview from ... receptions, tours of athletic facilities and UROP labs, and a discussion on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which ... breakthrough on the previous occupant of the room. Digging some more through old ... ="aligncenter" width="2304"] This is probably one of the oldest murals on hall

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

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  most traffic of any entry ever written on the MIT blogs. While I am ... words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on ... included the occasional entry on her job. She noticed a fair amount of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even ... flip a coin. What’s the probability of landing on heads?” Freshman: “I ... classrooms, and work on some sustainable projects of my own. One afternoon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  ’ll get placed on, etc. Optionality: Humans tend to value the act of ... ” of academia can feel very, very far from actually having impacts on ... someone’s head, is not lost on me. Partially as a result of this, I like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus ... on-and-off campus. That leaves about 3 percent of people who just live ... lot of MIT resources for finding housing. You can email them for help on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ).  One of the first pages on our website, the FAQs page, helped us find our ... correct numbers on them, requiring us to change the forms in the middle of ... putting this on in their spare time outside of work :) Dolla dolla bills One

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018 ... . And at MIT, where a 59 on an exam can be a B, the feeling of failure at ... someone’s mind. On a different note, MIT will expose you to a variety of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018