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• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  that has come before you. I'm wondering how your affinity for the web ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college ... advance for any thoughts.

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of ... syndication in various formats: RSS, Atom, etc. Check the right-hand column for syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  nearer. Look for me in the crowds Thursday morning at the Macy ... the weekend reading applications! No Thanksgiving break for us admissions officers... Anyone else have interesting plans for Thanksgiving?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all ... program, made specifically for first year students. By completing it, you ... MakerBucks ($50 stipend for maker supplies). This program is [annotation

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  look for in future cities I live in. biking [caption id="attachment_77488 ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking ... for cars as possible. Instead we will ride bikes! We do in fact ride

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone ... found paradise” or “I hate this fucking place,” and, honestly, for most

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  I don’t give myself enough credit for the things I’m doing well, or I ... discouraged. And sometimes, the best thing I can do for myself is have enough ... -hour-long conversations with people I barely knew. It was awesome. I found a UROP for next

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... figured I'd blog because I've been quiet for awhile and there are some ... an automation engine (think IFTTT, but for your phone) and there is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely ... met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  eating.  I have been a vegetarian for about four years and I've had a fairly weak immune system for what seems like forever, but it had never ... 've started to use this website called calorie count which does all the work for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... all of my reading for my supercool HASS class (American Classics). In

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I ... for cooking. I believed cooking to be an expression of love – to understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  aspects of the fall semester for the most part.  Going into the fall ... were some milestones I was pretty proud of myself for. I didn't have high hopes for doing well during my first semester, but oddly enough, the first

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... the top three departments in the country for biology. Some people take issue with this sort of ranking, since the ranking is really for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  favorite part of my notebook. I use CAD (Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape) for different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... I’m using feels on the page. Especially for technical classes, I like

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for ... with every version of yourself throughout time, for better or for worse. I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  middle or high schools. For me, this means appearing at Cambridge Community ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  everything we'd need to sustain ourselves for four days. I'm the type of person who cannot stand it when I'm not prepared for something I easily could've prepared for, so I read extensive festival survival guides and bought a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... 't even sure what field of internship I was looking for, seeing as I was ... "Sorry, we're not looking for freshmen" or "We prefer people with prior

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  through my mess of overcommitment so far. February has just been a blur for ... swing on Monday, while I helped with recruiting teachers for Spark ... MIT community for a weekend."]which is like Splash but for middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020