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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  lungs lately. Circumstances are ripe for a brash inbox reorganization- as ... . Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of ... to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  stuff in the back, and we drove home. I was home for a week, during which ... were three blocks from the White House. Rose is a fantastic cook, and she struck a deal with me that we'd share payment for groceries, she

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  ="excluding any class less than 6 units (a normal class has 12 units)"]every class[/annotation] I've ever taken at MIT! Feel free to scroll through and take a look at ... because I have fond memories and learned a lot from them. Some classes that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  job??? The latter of which actively have a hard deadline??? But then ... Campus started his first year at Stanford. My childhood best friend moved a [annotation note="For a year, we lived a 4.5 minute bike ride away from each

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about science than usual but more about relationships and who I am. It was a bit ... of some beautiful ideas, I settled into my life at MIT and now have a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some caves, and got a few diamonds. diamonds! i won—and that’s where the story ... underground, mining a good amount of gold and lapus lazuli and a couple more

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  one of my best friends, Emma S. '23. She is a huge part of rocket team ... energy. In the beginning of freshman year, I was having a lot of trouble ... Team would always find itself ranked the highest. A good amount of

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

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  and obvious. "Yes." "Well then why would you say such a thing?" I ... , even though we had a couple of days before spring break. "Useless fucking ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  else Whose spirit seems dead There was a time, last year, when I really ... thought it’d be nice to have a little more runway throughout the school year ... talked to a couple companies, asked about which ones had opportunities for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  Terrascopers from Mission 2016 bond as we await to board a plane to Houston, then to Las Vegas, then a bus to somewhere mountain-ey. (Look they did ... a monkey complaining about not getting grapes, like the other monkeys

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret ... basically they invite a bunch of college students from different universities in Taiwan with different majors and they discuss a bunch of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... generally know what i want and i take care of myself a lot better. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian ... now. This last week has been a doozy.  Pirates This semester I ... , a replacement MechE class for 2.00B, Toy Design, which didn't runt his

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... tell you all about the experience. (Now would also be a great time to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made ... kick out the people in control. Are we buying into this? I am a very old ... since I left! I miss this place a lot though. I used to write here, but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go!   A bit of background information before we dive in ... you can add some context and details to your application. It’s a chance

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  interesting. EVERYTHING. I’m exaggerating, of course, but only a little. There ... about before this summer, and all of a sudden, they all seem like the most ... -ten... like a list..."]top-ten[/annotation] personality traits; so, to best

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT ... previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal ... on a false foundation. I found some resolution through directly talking

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My ... story is not unique. Many of my friends at MIT are also on a similar ... learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too ... done this to herself? I entered MIT with a job, a web-based research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019