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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because ... only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their ... 't need one for a while. When you need one, though, you will NEED ONE. So be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  -12.30 (12-134) or TR1-2.30 (12-134) ______ For students with a special ... vehicle for improving one's style while studying the nuances of the language ... means for autobiographer and biographer to develop a personal voice; and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  - Mechanical Engineering When I was a freshman, I filled up my IAP with so many ... , and it’s especially prevalent over IAP. I teach Hebrew for fun and as a ... especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  handwritten note: You saved $500 today. You're welcome for not being towed for ... Instagram these past couple of years. End up with a result you're mostly okay with except for the fact that you're squinting because you were staring

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  , or both; someone who's capable of speaking up for their team to ... positions. I've always put my election to these roles up to a couple of very ... deciding on a course of action, which is very useful for student government

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who ... and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a ... for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  get a few additional features if you are a student! I love Notion for a ... have language-specific syntax highlighting!) and LaTeX support. For ... ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  have gained many rights, the reality for transgender folks (particularly trans women of color) is that progress has not been as drastic for their ... setbacks within your individual context. For example, if I am reading an

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her ... around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their ... the first time I made breakfast for the family I was probably 7 or 8). I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  ’ll continue to do up until classes start. But for now, I’m somewhere between 21M ... internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be ... [annotation note="A website for MIT students to visualize semesterly class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  tighter, as if enough pressure would coax the misery out, but, for all she ... ? I’m too excited for her.”    My dad had moved even further for college. After qualifying for a scholarship program, he traveled from

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in ... prevents you from clicking submit before 11:59 PM EST (technically, EDT for ... questions that are completely optional for any number of reasons and are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  journey. This post is scheduled to go up on the day of the 2021 Virtual ... the weather outside is a chilling 2021.   For your safety and comfort ... for being my number one support system that I can always turn to. We

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Vegas). This flight is 6 hours long, but for the past 6 hours, I’ve been ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of ... ’t working for me. Those kinds of introspections can’t be forced. They will

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  , which gives grants of up to 10K for projects that foster community, for ... in mind for this semester. We've been having exec meetings through ... finances is. There are a lot of contrived processes for things, so it's kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  supervising a few new website tricks we have up our sleeves for rollout later ... began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and before that at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my ... for the Engineers Without Borders-MIT Chapter. Engineers Without Borders ... developing countries to improve their quality of life. One of our projects, for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  into the stream and let the running water charge it up for use that night ... until later (i.e. never). Ready, go. 1. I'm being published. For realz ... interesting to me. I mean, I want to spend my life designing corn shellers for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this ... did spruce it up a bit: This picture really doesn't adequately ... out great for Marty's dad in Back to the Future, my main purpose behind

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  the two: fight (by studying hard for two weeks), then flight (home for the holidays!) Many students will come back to MIT around January 7 for ... worrying about problem sets. Well, that’s not 100% true, there are some for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007