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• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  together, becoming absolutely astonished at the variety of programs out there ... sleep out of the 48. At the end, I hopped in a cab back to the airport ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  of what happened there, but I know the way Ruth came to be at my ... bodies of children would be curled up with mine at night. Ruth’s sister ... named after two of his close friends in childhood, who had died at 12 and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  <3"]sorority big[/annotation]is, ate lots of good apple-themed food at ... and looking at the pretty leaves, love MIT's fall-themed events, love baking cozy desserts, love comfy sweaters, and generally love all of the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  depressed for weeks at a time, i feel like it’s become a part of me. and ... content warning: extended discussion of suicidal thoughts.     i recently listened to the soundtrack of next to normal, this 2008

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have ... It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  explore EC. at the end of it, four new Bombers were placed on my floor, and ... paying attention to dozens of things at once, often unsuccessfully. or ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  Boston"] IAP [/annotation] shivering and staring at the frozen surface of ... much money. At the end of IAP, I took the exam, and blissfully ... sinks when I see I have 4 psets due at the end of this week, and almost

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS ... at MGH with a chance of appendicitis! Oh dear! Let me know if I can ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  grader, but not because of the grade they gave me at all. See, I have this ... to make sense of the math as I worked through it. At the end of the ... worthless. =( at the end of question 2. (To be fair, I wrote this at like 3 AM

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  . Remember, at the end of the day, you're still the one actually writing the ... committee wants you to be. Admittedly, students at MIT share a lot of common ... the whole history of each school you apply to, I think it helps to at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  -exhaustive list of things you should remember to do this summer. Hopefully, this will make your time easier as you arrive at MIT. 1. Documents I ... signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

   linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to ... bonuses ((I want to say boni)): one of my friends (who I first met at CPW

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  they'd want to meet. (And they do, actually.) At the end of it all ... Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are given the choice of several types of faculty advising. There’s traditional

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  spend a lot of time studying or in lecture or in lab or at the boathouse ... horrible, awful, no-good, wonderful, amazing place: Sleep at least 8 hours every night. 1 extra hour of sleep >>>>> 1 extra hour of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  requisite spoons at the end of the day to force myself to go to sleep. If I ... the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St ... being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... been so exhausted from staring at screens all day that when I did have

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place ... going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of ... really bad sense of what is near and far from us).  But today is a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013