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• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  change the means of success that I relied on for so long. One quote that ... . I have a bad habit of focusing on all of the outcomes that could go ... I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the South. On campus you can find me creating stuff in one of MIT’s many ... half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health insurance changed) Tripped so badly walking down Amherst Alley (on a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... hub for study/work abroad']misti[/annotation]internship on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  room on the verge of passing out, I feel sort of free. Maybe one day in ... a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  quaint family dinners on Thanksgiving, complete with all manner of ... perfect, considering it's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about ... filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  . Techiya, on the other hand, sings a variety of music, from slow liturgies to ... on the last day of class. This class is also very fun, and I would ... a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  a number of cool things. I think I also missed out on some of the ... experience last year / my observations of other peoples' experiences. In no ... , then MIT is a boiling cauldron of every possible kind of weirdness (and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at ... session that evening. There was a big picture of a pizza on it, so I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  adequately describe the incredible sight of 20,000+ people on their way to ... three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  any fire alarms (I heard that last semester, on the first day of 3 ... promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though, is taking a little bit of adjustment. Speaking of adjustment.. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of ... 's always a big group of freshmen in my entry's lounge on Thursday nights

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  -female (and one of the nicest dorms on campus), and there are all-female suites ... people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... people are interested in this question, I find it decidedly odd... sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  of applicants we have and the limited space on campus. And the fact ... perfect. Some students thrive on the challenge of taking many advanced ... Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  ;   This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I ... . The nice lady said hello, commented on my rollerblades, stuck a needle in my arm, pulled the needle out of my arm, and gave me a Band-Aid. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  likely you'll be at the mercy of whatever treats the school gives you ... cooperative effort between students and Division of Student Life is bearing fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... 've passed on pset- and exam- heavy classes in favor of those with huge end-of ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a ... interesting. It focuses on the politics of framing—in other words, how people ... takes a maximum of 30 minutes every night, and I memorize the dialogue on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  individuals in the community who have had an uncommon impact on the lives of ... lifetime. On May 18, the Spackenkill High School senior will be honored as one of the recipients of the 2006 Hometown Hero awards. The awards are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021