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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... about the people in my life. I couldn’t have arrived here without them ... challenge. Yes, I’ve had plenty of fun in high school, but when I picked a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  times by people saying how pretty her hair was. I was thankfully in a less ... grapple with topics like how advertising is changing in the 21st century ... papers on pretty much whatever I'm interested in--my first paper was a five

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . “You have no idea,” he told me, “how often I asked [insert Math Major ... thinking about how guilty I felt. Fast forward to last night. I was kneeling ... turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... 'm not sure it has a vibe yet. Seeing how new the dorm is, I thought I ... never intended to live in a meal plan dorm. I'm kind of picky about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... like Elvis, but.... Here I am with my very own personal Clay. Sort of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... suite door. Adam and I are living in a two-person suite, and we even get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... - I majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and lived in Simmons ... blog posts of all time. In fact, just go read it right now. I'll wait

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  how powerful the videos were and knew I wanted to be a part of the team ... : Founder MIT life outside Tea with Teachers: I graduate in 2017 with a ... ). I was in the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the corporate relations director

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  US competition in Lincoln, NE each June. I’ve worked on five of our ... always something you can do better next year. In Europe, where the electric ... in different countries. While I could wax poetic for days about all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  in tenth grade. Well, I can almost understand why Barnaby was so ... hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There ... actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... , what can I possibly do when I'm not working? The answer is all the stuff

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  You guessed it, I'm finally: And because there are literally so many ... rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  am particularly emotional, in which case I will resort to “PSET” or ... -and-check? Can’t you just plug in all the permutations of the variables and get the ... difficulty of the class. Since I have limited experience in anything except

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... during the semester can be hard. Early into the semester, I made a ... resolutions from last year…and um, see how many of them I actually kept

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  . I wanted to explore how my hair sometimes swallows me both in volume ... in a less intimidating way, which I feel like email can be. I also ... mine 'NYC critters,' and I still have it tucked away in my bookshelf at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  , so you can gift Nectar to Gods or your friends in the Underworld. I ... to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... so long, you start realizing the patterns in how mapped out and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a ... I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in ... Snapchat story), so here we go. The day before I left, I had to squeeze in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  and consecutive nine hours of sleep in a long time, I learned how to ... admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010