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• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  a sense of what we look when selecting students for admission. Basically, we're looking for students with broad interests, both academic and ... well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I ... this makes up for the fact I haven't blogged in a bit! I really do miss ... In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... rhapsody in blue   Even though I’ve only been here for a semester, I ... musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  ’m editing his memoir in exchange for the personal training he usually sells ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program lately for these blog posts. So when two friends in the GEL program told ... some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  /Writing Experience We are looking for people who can communicate in a compelling ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  friends would be in Paris for a semester-long exchange program, and I wanted ... my hostel, settled in, napped, and prepared for a fun evening ... philosophy. This year, they went to Rome, and I joined in for their final

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  was for "smart, hard-working, ambitious people in tech." now, my ... their salary, but how much funding they got for their startup in series ... in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  Happy New Year! Even though I'm nearsighted, this is the year for ... accomplish this year: Cherish my close friendships. I entered MIT in September ... graduating this year. I can't wait to see them do amazing things out in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the ... , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks ... commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  sleeping space for everyone in the loft, a few members of the group decided ... facebook group you all know and love) helps me make signs for the dorm. Go ... supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  ;two-word topic>”: for instance, “Substantial increase in voter turnout”. The ... groundwork for more advanced treatment of visualizations. In vision science ... For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  patient). Formally known as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no ... Medical Report from MIT Medical. Instructions for obtaining your MIT ... item is the one that generates the most excitement. For many students, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  foliage in the north, and not for its fruit.  Only the lemon tree has ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  foul, greasy hands on the sanitary bed sheets; and settling in for the night like ulcers. For the next half hour they tossed in their beds ... We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  information. In ten minutes, we'll break for lunch. Sounds of the office ... a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  myself from having to be covered in egg yolks for the rest of the day. I ... about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However, since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... uncertain. recently, it has been hard to see the good in the world. recently

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025