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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  through MITES, I absolutely fell in love with it. I remember stepping out ... , and sweat already dripping down my face. But the second I walked in ... class wouldn’t change one bit. From learning how to use the machines in

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

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end ... close early in Denmark, and I hadn’t been able to find anywhere with cake ... me not to burn my mouth.  10/10 would recommend.    8:45 I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... creation in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology, Music, Literature ... permanent resident, live in the US, and not have your 18th birthday before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you ... very outdated website here: It's almost exactly one year old! I get a ... works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  /career/lifestyle such that I can decide how I want my life to look in most regards ... probably won't work out how I play it in my head, but it sure as hell won ... delights of cookies, I realized how many idioms about cookies there are, if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  engaging in social activities would have felt pretty lonely. More broadly, I ... intelligence)."]6 and 18[/annotation] at MIT! In high school, I loved browsing ... about how MIT students spent their days in classes, clubs, or hobbies, so

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  buy plane tickets.   The Great Biology Merger On Tuesday, I was a ... .06 this semester, so I would only be able to take 7.18 next semester when I ... (or more!) in lab working on a project that would have looked better on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website ... iPhone. in our first iteration, we tried to bust open a few ... many lessons i learned with my team in 6.811, i found that while it

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  over whenever I thought about where I would film. What counts as ... subjective, defined to each person, but I didn’t know what would fit ... before. In roughly 5 degrees weather, I headed to 1st Avenue, actually a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  ) website. In regards to Harry Potter, I secretly still want to be a ... interested in seeing what it would say about me. Would it say I'm an ENFP still ... to even how my island is going to look like in Animal Crossing. I try

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the ... who thought this was a good idea, I'm very disappointed in you. ... As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  , luckiest, place in the universe!** I was wondering if you would know the ... of producing some incredible work. how would i go about describing my ... for it. Life favors the bold. I would like to know how classes taken as

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  impossibly old, even though, had I attended MIT, it would have been ... twice as wise, or at least wise twice. I am confident this is how wisdom works. So with that established, here at 25 things I've learned in my 25

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  Cambridgeside Galleria. I would suggest letting someone (a roommate, perhaps?) in ... , because I should be listed as a year 3 student with a second major in VII ... . Personally, I came in with a meager 27 units of credit (and didn't pass out of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in ... ) that fall.  That didn’t happen. Life got in the way. I joined the cheer ... group, I made new friends. In mid-November, I finally managed to finish my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... , I love to tell the story of how I never imagined coming to MIT ... department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  frankly thought it would be a short stopover on my way to law school. I was ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  are you going to get the legislators in Washington DC to care? How are ... within my lifetime (in 2050), this is something that I need to care about ... the eggs and each egg reached maturity, it would take only three years

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

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  interest in during college, it’s a bit laughable how many areas i explored and how irrelevant many of them are to what i currently do. in ... rejoin even when their peers would be happy to have them back in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  . Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will ... companies in America, William I. Koch is an international businessman ... , and antiques in the United States.' " 'Things I Love' features choice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005