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• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  Educational Counselor, a recent graduate who is currently enjoying sunny ... admissions committee. A college interview is an experience. Remember that the ... from a transcript or very basic info -- and the interviewer is human too

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  left (or somewhere nearby) is a map of the MBTA subway system. You ... each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of ... that train.   As in the bus, inside the train is a scrolling neon sign

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  persona I put forward on the blogs is, well, just that. A persona. Do I exaggerate myself too much on the blogs? Is this my real self or is it someone I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below ... Hampshire and Central Massachusetts. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some ... MIT will be contacted directly about how to access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist that did not rank MIT, you can
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  appreciate how much effort goes into even a seemingly simple thing like ... (Creating Digital Learning Materials for Biology) This course is a student ... and how to shape our own projects. After a couple weeks of research, we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  while. And, sometimes, a distraction is all you need to rediscover a sense ... weather is always a song from a different indie band. Basically, it’s clever ... There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  languages all around the world. How many? Enough to populate a map like this ... simultaneously." The hope is that by analyzing a lot of languages, we'll see ... how pidgins and Creole languages form. On a completely different day

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  . Getting a bicycle is not absolutely necessary, but I would recommend it if ... connect to my laptop, which is much easier on my eyes. However, running programs like Matlab and Solidworks is absolutely painful on a laptop, so I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU ... ? *This statement is not true if your summer assignment is to a living group

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... -renovation. so two years is a lot relative to how undergraduate culture propagates ... . it's unclear how much of this is due to the actual news though

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  occasions When I tabulated this list for myself, I kept a record of how much ... /dinner: a friend and I were texting about the abundant free food, and how they ... terrible at taking food pics, which is a tragedy. The food this week was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the ... , being a beginner is scary. For many students (myself included!) the ... at some subject, then you probably like it a lot, which is important in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  pretty proud of how far i've come. i've been thinking a lot about ... is a hotspot for birders!) joanna always being willing to grab lunch ... ... and so so so so much more. i don't know, man. this is probably going

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of ... , and there is a lot of room to grow. It's exciting to be around other ... ), which is a weekly drawing class offered through the MIT Student Art

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  of getting into any single school is quite small so you have to have a ... attend. Don’t forget to breathe…often: Applying to college is so much more ... . While MIT is a special place for me, the school you ultimately attend will

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  't walk quietly through a room in the early morning, think about how precious life is and feel grateful that you have it. Time is a currency that ... think it is a lesson that many of the people who get admitted to MIT would

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  least, but it just goes to show you how much there is to do during IAP ... How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  equilibrium, there is a limit to how much I can handle and still be happy ... five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... that’s unique to me. The middle of the semester is a perennially bad time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  from my house to my office, and although the Rhein river is a little ... Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... Lois McMaster Bujold once said, "My home is not a place. It is people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006