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• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  the Courseroad of all the classes I took at MIT, it's hard to pick out a ... improve at over the course of time. I had binders and notebooks filled with ... and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  deckbuilder, you'd draw cards from your deck at the beginning of your turn, have ... You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  all obstacles. It is the ability to move mountains one grain of sand at ... , Starbucks gave me some internet, and at least now I had some sense of ... 3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student! Incredible faculty We are a research university that places a great deal of ... , currently on our faculty and all of them teach undergraduate classes. In fact
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in ... how "black box" some of it was. Maybe this is how I feel about computer science classes in general; as a math major, I feel like a lot of concepts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just look at the message and don't respond. In Spanish as in English, you ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  University of Alabama at Birmingham is a popular choice that people from my ... : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... platform, and I met a lot of my friends here at MIT through SSP. The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  of the jokes and laughed at others. Still, only at MIT would nerdy ... been exposed to a capella, at least not outside of Pitch Perfect (and ... computing group, improving computing at MIT since 1969), ESP (creators of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  came over and looked at me inquisitively. i offered a weak smile. "i was ... little more talkative they'll wish me the best of luck at mit. it's a ... i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup ... first marathon of line-waiting occurred at the Uffizi Gallery in Italy. We ... it's the best-valued hostel that we stayed at in the course of our 10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  supplemental portfolios may feel especially useful. We offer portfolios of the ... Submit section at the end of each portfolio in SlideRoom. To request a fee ... the words of a wise colleague, “Don't throw spaghetti at the wall and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  of reasons. I wanted to get better at guitar and paint more, in ... for just the amount of opportunity given to me at MIT. So many of my ... streamers. Also hanging out with Ethan at TwitchCon. Three of my biggest

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  start off my first day of my sophomore year with 21G.703, Spanish 3, at 12 ... concept of "firefighting" within businesses, specifically looking at product ... because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... the end of the semester. All three groups had their end-of-semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• 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

  

  humanities at MIT were very much a thing, and Anne Hunter of course 6 fame, who ... was Good at Math and Got A’s in Math and I thought that was the kind of ... confusing. That’s something of paramount importance at MIT, where new and

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... fellowships, with families at home and a mindset of just getting through the ... if I were a baby; when I was ignored at grocery stores in favor of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  arrived at the gate! a round of applause broke out since we were now sure ... euros worth of candy, and i intend for this to last me at least an entire ... because of the delays, i would have had to spend another night at the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity ... and technology. We're offering amazing prizes - including a scholarship

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority ... residential summer program in the MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and ... to one of these programs, don't procrastinate! MIT K-12 Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  Valencia, staying in a hotel at our final city of the trip, and so on. All in ... . Hostels, at least all the ones I stayed at, offered lockers that could only ... mushroom ragu and a glass of rose. At that waterside restaurant, I was the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023