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• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of ... from THE SCHOOL YEAR is that my calendar looks blissfully white and empty. During the school year, my calendar looks, to quote my friend: "like a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time ... look at it:   I got into MIT, I swam in seas of blankets With the ... serious?  When I look in the mirror it’s just Blahh blah blah blah blegh

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf ... Parade, be sure to keep an eye out for The Catalina Foothills High School

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this ... smell of the wet morning air in the early autumn and the hope I had for ... grateful for nor understood the preciousness of their consistently showing up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  all to see what works best for you. Once you’ve mastered the “downward ... following the same directions! For more of a challenge, try making curved ... ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored by the Center for ... Camp (HSMC) Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS) The ... chose for the majority of my summers in high school. Reading, doing sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion ... the Charles River; it was originally built as a mansion for the ... conclusion. For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  problems and change the world. Maybe everything I was looking for was waiting for me in the mechanical engineering department.  The idea began to ... distinctly unhappy. So, I took a look at it again: the one major I never let

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  , leaf! Christiane asks: What's the age-limit for prospect students at MIT ... place in the Top 200 in Math/Chem olympiads in high school? Thanks for ... " to be accepted to MIT, and I can tell you for sure that the majority of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led ... -slickers we apparently are, and decided to head for warmer climates for the summe... er, to more well-lit, people-filled places for the night. You

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  . You could look past the river and see the highway, make out the logos ... train for cross country in the off-season. The new house was in a “better ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  mentioning my paper: "By the way, take a look at the comment for the paper 4 ... “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  straight is exhausting sometimes, but other times I look at the signals on my ... everything people handwrite for me: a note on the front page of a novel, For ... It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  the books for me and just tell me the most important/interesting bits ... project I've been working on for the past two ish years and want to try to ... disappointed by what the paper will look like. There's just so much more I could

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  told is actually bad for the computer, but whatever ... computer. The upside is that I'm actually gaining some concrete skills for ... (Preface: I am also sorry for disappearing. D:) -- So anyone who

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  -in throughout the course of the day. All the things I’ve taken for granted in a ... experiences for the PREFROSH! Our CPW begins with the Costco run of a lifetime ... better for the prefrosh that come after us. Because we are excited to meet

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  I’m writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can access it here. You can review the dates and deadlines for this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  watched the flames grow, it struck me for the first time that I really wasn ... satisfaction as I watched the evidence of my old self reduce to ashes. For a ... deep of the Charles River. We enjoyed the view of Boston for awhile, then

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016