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• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I wanted to take the time to reflect on what these past four months have meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  to school at BU, and I try to visit her at least once a semester. I don ... , once alone and the remainder to catch up with a friend and an advisor. I ... to food, and so many more blessings I need to count daily. All of these

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  possible, once one has established effective study habits, to maintain decent grades with time to do other things besides study? And I got the impression ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  need to break into different artifical systems to win. I like the hacker ... on really understanding something through and through. You need to ... interact. Now, in many fields you need to learn something deeply, but often

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  note="I want to create! But I also need financial support ... thousand other things I need to watch"]watch TV[/annotation] and eat ... up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... tailored for robotics. I started trying to re-work my fall schedule. I had ... it down to a select few. My ideal schedule looked something like this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  explained the rules to me very well, despite having played the game only once ... trying to play 2 low complexity spirits at once, which was definitely too ... newer players, and we would need to separate the decks if we wanted to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  how it grows and can't wait to see what Infinite does next! for more ... Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... , it has released an issue once per semester with full-page spreads on a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a woman called out: “Please, will you help us? We need somebody who is very ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  like we needed to maintain threshold power to simply stay upright in the ... cyclist friend Matt R. ’13 (used to be ’14; pictured below), who recently ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  - I wish I didn't need to say this, but please don't choose your course ... , because we're edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college ... their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  textbook. You won’t regret it. But what does this have to do with Linked ... need to go tour Europe for two weeks before semester begins again. ... deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  something physical to discuss, and it makes you, the applicant, much more ... yourself. 6. It’s ok to Google us. But not too much. ECs know we are part ... , more power to you, but don’t feel the need to compare yourself to us, and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  involved in things that you love or interest you, because you need to be ... officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make it up by posting much MORE often... it looks like some order might be

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  got to the point where CPW just wasn't as much fun as it would be with ... lot better once you have gotten sleep and you will be able to enjoy the ... we are here if you need us, but do not feel pressured at all to spend

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me, what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a ... that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked ... important piece of information that you will need to memorize for any test. I ... . Breakfast came to an unwelcome end, much like my Midwestern childhood, and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  semester, I only need 2 more classes plus a PE to graduate. I can finally ... of my meals. Wisdom: Once I graduate, I certainly do not want to stop learning. This year, I need to force myself to stick to a system in which I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019