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• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  , this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another ... yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer ... about you? Does each part contribute to the bigger picture of you that you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  directly, and sending it to us so we can keep track. I don't remember much ... much better idea of the scale, and I want to help give you an impression ... similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  everything? And to then pursue everything all at once? MIT’s answer was yeah ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  ...you'll have to wait a few years, and see! Thank you all so much for following ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... ). Briana B. ‘17 (right) and I on the steps to Lobby 10 The current

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -building and puzzle-solving. I like to think of math as about creating ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  ! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  MIT has humbled us and no matter how much we've come to terms with Not ... We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  schedule does not have enough space for all the classes I want to take. And ... much of the population from campus, his reaction to this was, once again ... too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was time to return to MIT, and I was pretty excited. I had already formed the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  bugs and reconfiguring later, I managed to make it much easier to use for ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  talking to most of the people I once knew. And whenever I meet anyone new, I ... life you forget to do these things, and how much they can affect your ... sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... (usually just before it's due) and literally sprint through the work to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as graduation ticks closer and closer. Right now, I’ve decided to dip my toes into ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches ... energy with them. The room was quiet. Then, suddenly, the quietness was broken by a series of buzzes and dings as our phones simultaneously

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... communities around you full of people ready to support you, and you will have ... [/annotation] ready to give you their tips and tricks for surviving classes and getting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all ... ’t help myself sometimes. But no matter how much we tell you to relax - let ... the Harry Potter films to confuse your friends and relatives! If they

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  need to lift a pen and know your name to join a 100 clubs that will send ... hours to socialize. 5 hours to waste on grooming, latest YouTube hits, and ... . They try to remember their students’ names and passions. We get a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT ... of my inbox right now, parties, house meetings, and foodmobs to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... scientist, but I'm also something of an engineer, and I've learned to be one both in and out of the classroom. In addition to all my neuroscience and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... /technology consultant to many films, including Minority Report, The Hulk, and Æ

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008