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• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  grammar. So building 1 is not next to building 2. That's a rookie mistake ... DID YOU KNOW? Michael Jackson originally worked on the soundtrack to ... got lost on my way to 6.003: Signals and Systems recitation on my first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to ... ) minutes and then go to bed. But if I start a book, that book is getting finished, that night. Partly, this is because I'm lucky enough to be a really

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... sensitivity of our instruments ultimately requires us to establish a noise floor

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  's story as a complete picture - each factor affects each other factor to ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the ... now and would really like to send a recording to MIT. Unfortunately

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  first organization we went to - we'd also stopped at CAMEP, a company that ... scientist to the media lab and a Haitian American, and Barry Vercoe, who works ... , we entered the building to receive a tour of the station. The station

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me ... to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  MIT. Most importantly, be sure to register for a MyMIT account and ... application fee, just check off the box for a fee waiver. You will have to ... . Give out candy to cute trick-or-treaters at your front door. Watch a

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  consistently spend money to study at a coffee shop when I feel less guilty if I ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  it's an important part of our daily W&A life! Okay. I want to eat ... semesters in which students are encouraged to explore, take a break, do as ... friends (major shoutout to Tatiana and Aarushi :) ), and a bit of

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... less a zombie for that. Speaking of which, sleep is very important ... concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  lend themselves really nicely to outbursts of nerdiness. Exhibit A: the ... Oakland, where Ruth '07 works. While there, I had to snap a photo of the ... SAE team. (Once upon a time, I was on MIT's team.) Walking to the BART

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  order to decide who begins the debate. With a call of heads, Team ... . . . sweet potato. It's fun to make Hamentashen with friends, it's a great ... approach to hamentashen should be a bit interesting. How does a single cell

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  was scared to do it right. but, i think it's important to share with the ... this effort to grasp onto whatever bits of ec i could find, i collected a ... of windows, I want to live in a village. I want that now, Driving in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  , which I had already been to.) I met with Alicia a few times to talk about ... MISTI gave me a list of websites to search for people looking for ... find a job for me that would keep me a little closer to the physical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about ... nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  know something is Really Important: Now, MIT has hosted a pretty ... expecting Neil to be here by now. There is A few people start clapping (widely known throughout the world as a surefire method to summon missing speakers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  Apple was trying to make its stores seem like a church, a sacred space ... showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... think back to the call I received from Steve Jobs on a Sunday morning in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a ... radiate? The thing spews out enough math to educate a third-world village

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four ... *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... a Monster to do so, so my brain was skittery and wouldn’t fall asleep

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022