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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  without regard for identity, income, or location. Ever dreamed of getting a ... enter a university, much less a Masters program? No worries! Now you can enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  through hard times. We even have a play put on by students to provide useful ... leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are ... more chances to experience a dorm's culture and style before choosing a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  a practical art, colloquially known as an Alternative Free Period ... of my personal spending into a spreadsheet, which I later rolled out ... Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  . I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so here's a ... performances, or to write lyrics that use Boo as a pronoun.) Do not use words ... you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn ... final robot competition, where students for a single-run showcase on Monday to earn as many points as possible, and a top 32-robot single

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... trying to juggle a million things, I never have as much time to sit and ... to notice. This IAP I've realized that, continuing on a theme from my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways ... been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... , which makes me feel bad about how long ago, but the pandemic crowded a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  ’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... ago, [annotation note = "It feels like we did this a year ago..."]that's when I sat down[/annotation] with two chemical engineering students and a

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  around in our badass Rush shirt or wearing a brightly colored cowboy hat ... ! (Grill and chill and build on the booklet): Every REX, East Campus has a ... prefrosh. This year, we’re building a fort and an arch bridge, and it’s going

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tag Yourself a tote bag meme

  

  we have many tote bags. our freindos have commented on our many tote bags. they have even called us suburban moms. we don't disagree. we made a meme with them - karen c.'20, katherine c. '19, nia m. '20

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two ... classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... speakers from our Professor: “He put this field on a strong footing…” “One

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  water for a whole night, and then she would prepare the soymilk machine in ... plain, poured hot from a pitcher into a small ceramic bowl. My brother ... in a supermarket, I finally found the unsweetened kind, picked it up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... ’ve been a junkie for the kinds of dusty old works of revolutionary politics ... last semester, and I think I’ve learned a solid amount from that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive pool of applicants in Early, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  if any companies 1) interested me or 2) would be interested in a CMS/7 ... summer jobs pre-MIT! Do what you love, whether that's working in a lab or becoming a camp counselor or taking time off to spend with your friends and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014