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• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  volunteers and coaches for the MIT Science Bowl Invitational. It’s coming up in ... you’re feeling like you need that, scroll below the bullet points for ... . But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  close to the deadline and everyone signs up for their interview, interview ... up for it. I feel like I can definitely do better on the SAT were I to ... , probably. You can sign up for that on the MyMIT website. A summer visit can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  'll explain the reasoning for these rankings below in my four-year class roadmap ... remember really well: staying up until 3 am finishing a PSET with 15 other ... community for students with an interest in the blend of STEM and humanities

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  From October 16-19, MIT hosted twenty juniors in high school for our ... for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... knit. For example, on the day of my return, they had a hotdog eating

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the week a few weeks ago hit me, but apparently said week hit too hard for me ... ’s a discussion for a different blog."]five[/annotation] classes this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  that people can cope with anxiety and panic attacks and get help for what ... . Breathe in as long as you can, hold your breathe for six seconds, and then let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  of delight for some, and anger and confusion for others. Guidance ... respectful, thoughtful, and in many cases difficult to answer. Especially for ... 'll take." It seemed a little bold for this quiet introverted type guy. But

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going ... was waiting for decisions back then. Hopefully, this playlist will help

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... love to have on campus. For those of you whom were not admitted, know

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... [/caption] Monday: I woke up with cramps. On top of my 3-week old ankle sprain, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years ... . I'm a full-time employee writing and editing scripts for the You ... of school for a loooong time. And I do, and I did, and I took a break

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... bookmarking the tab (try to keep switching it up for fun) should work fine. If ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every ... yourself as a match for each place. Teachers often find these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  slightly more tolerable, we made another playlist for y'all! Enjoy :) https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  There’s no formula for gaining transfer admission to MIT. The transfer admissions process is highly competitive, even more so than the first-year admissions process. There’s no minimum required GPA; however
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... , but if you can't be there, the award will be mailed to you.) So for those of you near Cambridge, come check out the fair! And for those

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  academic environment, you most often turn to the people around you for ... . after all, we’ve only barely known each other for two and a half months ... think, but you can’t force people to talk. so i wait for something to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022