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• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother ... ,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an ... this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive, campus-wide game. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... to afford. A major challenge for many people is finding fuel, usually ... projects that really do help people, which I think is a fantastic thing to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it ... design, but I didn't want to commit to it for a whole painting. I only ... (I was born in Atlanta). Lineart It was weird to do color first and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... required to by MIT"]flu shot[/annotation] and felt so...distant? maybe it was ... , but is it enough? should I be trying harder, given that the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  white ball on top is the Green Building. Just to its left, you'll notice ... 't it be cool to see MIT from the sky? I found the somewhat-nearby Hanscom ... takeoff is a good place to start with a disclaimer: my father was in control

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on WebSIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester. The classes I'll be taking are really good, and I've wanted to take them

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have ... dinner time, it's fun to share the kitchen with my suitemates, but I love ... everyone is still asleep. The morning is so empty that it sometimes feels

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid ... was always trying to process too many bits of life at once. It's a ... the perspective and tools needed to achieve it. I want to be kind to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  thing is that I was so careful this ENTIRE summer to not get injured, but ... to make it to classes on time, my new friends would leave me behind ... are bad! When your expectations have been destroyed, it’s important to

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  me, but MIT is a reach school for everyone and it’s difficult to ... Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  good. The sun is starting to set, and Boston is strangely not showing its ... the same question: “How do you like it here?” and “Is Nigeria different from America?” Yes it is. It’s dryer and hotter, hot enough that we

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  sense” Typically, when you go to college and want to study robotics, it is ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  . We got to the building after what felt like miles of walking (it was ... that it wasn't in my personal definition. Checking off boxes is easy ... mind (this is a school of logical thinkers, after all), but it is so, so

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  to these strict guidelines: Yikes! This is crazy! (See any typos ... ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 2. 12:02 PM I'm in D-Lab right now (it occurs to me that I ... ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May 11. 5:33 PM My thesis is done. It's printed on fancy special

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... of thinking about life post-grad, it's unexpectedly led to a lot of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  -pat, pit-pat. "Is it raining?" One co-worker rushed to the windows. Then ... the streaks would show. Everyone wanted to know. "Is it?" No, it was ... what is a home-grown, born and bred, red-blooded American hick. It

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  sunshine - and that was it. Part of me is still wondering when my next problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of ... Skullhouse. As for Junk? Well, most of it is headed for the trash can. I don

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  substitutions to some songs not on Spotify. Stats This is my 173rd post, so ... most is fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), which is ... Callalily, which is pretty faithful to the original. The musical Ang Huling El

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  related to IQ. It is, however, the most common learning disability, at MIT ... to intelligence, but dyslexia is surprisingly common at MIT, to such an ... learning disorders in general. We are beginning to find that dyslexia is not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  the terrorist attacks on the US. It is often difficult to find good days ... Educational Counselors. It is a good chance for students to get to meet some ... Regional Chair is Dr. Paul Gluck '68. The ECs introduce themselves to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005