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• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be something I looked forward to every week and I seemed to be teeming with ideas ... 'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  , I sat down with one of them, Kevin, to talk about his room, which I ... fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I ... they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... floor above mine, one often subjected to the graceful fingers of Random ... , there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their pages and thinking about going to school there. I miss the potential ... while reading this blog, this isn't entirely true, and I just want to make

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . When I’m in my room, I almost cry. But I force myself not to. All I see ... only way I could bring words to my feelings.  ** I moved to the United ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  't seem to make sense Everything was going well Guess that was just the ... semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then the pandemic happened, and I didn't go to any. But last weekend I got to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  , I forced myself, despite my limited time, to think about what it was ... devoted hours and hours each day to psets as well as textbook reading ... to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  adult swim. Parents, Welcome back to the Nance Effect! Hopefully you ... color to an audience of color. With that said, I believe that the vast majority of my writings are applicable to the masses. Everyone is welcome

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  . That's about all the backstory you need. Also, nice to meet you!) You would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  according to their website, but I felt very strongly about going and wanted to ... to Spain']before this current blog you’re on.[/annotation] That first part came out awhile ago, and this second part got very delayed due to a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a ... to find and admit students who will succeed at MIT and serve the world afterward.  After careful consideration, we have decided to reinstate our SAT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  biggest concern right now is hot to get my recommendations to MIT in time ... time. How long should I wait to receive confirmation that my ... have to send them again they will be postmarked past the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  ! This semester I'm taking 6 classes, but I like to tell people it's 5 ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... .011) are classes offered to students who failed or especially struggled with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  from World War 2 to COVID-19. It uses 80 years of AI-enhanced archival footage to illustrate MIT's place in the world and its swift rise to the ... portrays MIT in a way that is familiar to students past and present, and yet

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  -cambridge to pick up a desk that jeff bought from someone for $10. it's a nice neighborhood, and the sun is starting to set, casting a golden glow over the well ... , pulling out my phone to try and find the picture i took. it turns out it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later ... said, “Aren’t you going to Europe?” “No, that was last year. There’s a ... thought I was travelling to Europe. I did not understand why, until I sat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  walks and ate many large meals every day, and on most days, found time to ... . Some days, I stay up late enough to witness the sky begin to lighten, and ... sun would only begin to dip below the horizon near midnight and would be

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  ,” according to its equestrian-friendly website. No horses did I see, but statues ... Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009