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• Blog / Advice

  We’re number 1 — but for whom? the global ranking vs the local fit

  

  the minivan, which ones would most impress your classmates, etc. In ... what is most important and why —  not yours. Instead, I implore you to ... is the best university in the nation or the world. I don't think that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... . Doing challenging things outside my comfort zone is the only way to grow

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  live Q-and-A to follow. The Q-and-A session is one of the most ... ...etc.) in the Atlantic Ocean from 1900 to 1999. Just in 99 years... Source ... otherwise known in the course catalog as 12.000 - Solving Complex Problems, is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  get a free ticket. I rule. The movie is the most adorable thing you will ... at LSC. It's absolutely one of the most amazing movies I've seen in a ... . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  me miss my own CPW so much, but so grateful of the opportunities and ... the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post ... Peterson's picture of the green building lit up in remembrance of those who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright ... MIT in half of the articles on Popular Science. She is on Cloud Nine ... your classes, a blank slate in the form of a P that equates a C to an A

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  , MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the ... So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The ... I had the chance to go to the game. We started off by visiting the

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... pretty much in disbelief until the recruiter actually called me, gave me ... ’s often a struggle to be just average in most of my technical classes. That

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  entry is to let you know about the live webcast of the competition. It ... needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to stick the landing. I think being in control is something I value a ... life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange, because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... system, so all signs are in metric units. Also, everything is in French in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  particular department is the best way to figure out whether you really fit ... : the brain is really cool. You and I carry one around in our heads, and ... never looked back. “There is no human face to the science of physics,” he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you ... similar to the "nerd herd" who shamed me in high school. However, after ... and the people in it as I am. MIT isn't this cut-throat battle to have

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to ... MIT 150. I marveled at the large screen toast to MIT by alumni in space ... “unlike any other” place that is MIT, we still had to get back home to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  classroom The most garden-variety way to ask for help is to find another ... concept, the next step is to call in your favorite upperclassman expert. All ... to be above average. So one of the most important things you'll learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  first date - a list of things that the male is supposed to do, and a list of things that the female is supposed to do - that was written by ... not, however, the sort of living group I would tend to click with in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple harmonic oscillations of the pendulum is going to keep whacking the sides of ... doing it right. And so I followed their advice. I tried to make the most

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  think the best way to combat these moments is surrounding yourself in a ... at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... ? Yes. I think MIT is incredibly hard. I think it is the most difficult

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... captivating, but to me, they were expected, unlike the ones here in Massachusetts. Similar to the subtle disparity in twilight coloring, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023