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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  Every freshman’s first few weeks at MIT tend to follow a predictable ... (commonly referred to as the Stud)"]Stud 5,[/annotation] learning to share a ... now, with a sense of deja vu. Cue the best 6 weeks of my life: MITES

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me as a faceless recluse, I haven't been posting because of a drought of ... to Rohan'15 for this gem of a conversation I'm about to share: Rohan

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  “It’s not just a working tool. It’s a thinking tool!” pronounced the award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the ... materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... jasmine! Lastly, I’m excited about a bunch of things outside of class. My ... are not passionate about STEM. Although you don’t have to be a STEM

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  promised much excitement. Someone rolled a large TV from their room. We watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  characteristics of ourselves that we aren't proud of and are trying to fix. Now I'm ... I'm glad I'm five stories above it. To my left, a full-length red ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  for fun.) "You can't make MIT love you if you don't [write a good essay ... for a good cause.) ----------- 7/29 EDIT I don't think the admissions ... , we care *a lot.* MIT doesn't assign each component of the application a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I haven't talked about any MIT alumni K-12 teachers. A number of my friends ... class a cool place. In recognition, he's been selected as the New Jersey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  . The team has completed fabrication of a 1.6 kN heat sink Ethanol ... MechE oriented, but that’s because I’m a MechE and intentionally pursued ... . Responsibility You don't have to wait until Junior or Senior year to have a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  he didn’t want to move away someday. He told me that there’s a feeling ... .     Voices from the community: I’m not a child abuse survivor ... report) it was just speculation or rumor and you can't fire a person or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... -being? Please take a few minutes to participate and provide your perspective. To ... presented in a way that individual respondents cannot be identified. If data

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  through break. Do I have a physics project too? Not at all :) I'm spending ... about getting a suitable amount of sleep each night, but I'm definitely ... I've run out of towels and can't possibly take a shower till I wash my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  a not-fancy apartment. That I still don’t usually feel that I belong ... 18. I don’t think I can overstate what a big deal that would have been ... wasn’t possible back then. I’m more concerned about other people in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Experimentation I also shopped 21M.601 - Drawing for Designers for a couple weeks ... class; I didn't develop many of them fully for lack of time, and as a result I can't say I'm very proud of everything I made (some of it still

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  ;t. Sarun wrote: If one of my essays is not...well, a conventional ... : My High school didn't have a math club nor a science club, but I wanted to participate in a math or science competition. I didn't get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic ... beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  me, please don't say as much. I get it. I'm lame. I already know. ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... 's hard, but I just don't understand, you know?" or "wait, why does everyone

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  neither a full week nor about food that much, so I’m here for my ... with a true week of my authentic (and half-assed) cooking over IAP. I’m ... time i got to the buffalo chicken too, so there wasn’t a big point

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  trained as a yoga teacher. I’m hoping to get trained as a yoga teacher, too ... don’t know if I could ever go back. A paper on DNA replication I need ... my desk. A lamp, to keep Hephaestus’s life interesting when I’m up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  consuming some content lately that has brought us joy, so we decided to make a ... useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a high school senior trying to distract yourself or take a break from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018