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• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the ... ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a serious question, and it deserves a longer response. The reality is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science ... SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used ... Remarkable Thing captured how weird and profound the social internet is. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how ... administrative role and a great opportunity to learn about how nonprofits operate ... problem was I didn’t get to do much of it. So armed with a greater

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  go a long way in helping you set up your room exactly how you want it ... 'll need for your dorm and you may even have a meal plan, which is paid in ... wanted to. Now, whether or not you have the discipline NOT to is a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is ... and probably get a haircut. After three months I've pretty much become ... wasn't planning on wearing a tie. Is he secretly trying to tell me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Medical Engineering Society (BMES) I quickly signed up. Novartis is a world-wide pharmaceutical company that is headquartered in Cambridge and but has a major ... miraculous drug that can pretty much cure a rare cancer called Chronic Myeloid

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  IAP has finally started, so that means my grocery bill is much larger ... leadership? • How would you define leadership? (hint: this is harder than you think!) • Which is a more favorable condition to find yourself in: a bad

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  matcha latte. Caffe Nero is conveniently only a five minute walk away from my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... surrounding choosing a living community is a constant in the MIT experience, at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  Fall Formal, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a chance ... cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... , you can imagine how much running up and down this involved. :) That

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a ... (usually seen as the Latin Cerberus), is a protocol for mutual authentication ... Carnegie Mellon, AFS is a network accessible file system. It's a way of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  , elementary school) whose child has known for a couple of years that MIT is ... help us to determine if a student is a good match for MIT like creativity ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  've had a conversation with you child about just how much you can afford to ... you may suspect, this blog is written from the point of view of a man of ... , maturity and savvy. Still this process is as counterintuitive as a good golf

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal with MIT. I was stressed, I was upset, and I made a completely rational and reasonable major life decision. I ADOPTED A SEVEN WEEK OLD KITTEN

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  . Being a junior, I know that living through MIT is not much like the ideal ... describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when ... . At the start, I was definitely too optimistic about how much fun I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  tears. Pictures nor words cannot describe how glorious it is. It has ... Trail itself is a pretty standard hike, and has maybe 1000 feet of ... extra effort not to fall, because the trail itself is a four foot wide

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  " is a common buzzword nowadays, but it's a good way to describe how I ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical ... junior fall. Its extent, however, is new. How did this happen? The key, as ... hold closest to my heart, my self-described raison d'être, is “being a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  how much we at MIT appreciate you and how much effort you put into your ... Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... -Conner's culture is pretty much defined by fire alarms. Yeah, fire alarms and that ... two weeks without hearing exactly how to prevent a catastrophe: "Close

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it ... to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021