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• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  college. But is that such a bad thing? I mean, college in general is going ... reasons. A lot of the families I knew were deeply set in family traditions ... experience something new. So I did. In late August 2003, I packed up a

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  in rotation. Is the decision of what to wear that much of a burden to ... writing class, and a thesis prep class. “I understand the ‘buffet’ is ... being a student whose sole responsibility is to learn. To find answers to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  the design is also a work in progress. I'll be working on the other ... . It will include a picture of your truly, so you can all see how ... as your Athena locker. So Ben sent me a link with info about how to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  from the application; a separate sheet of paper is most common. In ... send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2 ... participate in the arts community at MIT, you may send in a portfolio containing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  enough time. Do you see how much that is? It’s so much! I’m really not ... teenager and the free-spirited lesbian and the cocky A-student in me, we ... : Housing is actually going okay! You have a group you love, you have a few

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  my next point... Pass/No Record is NOT an excuse to get a C- in every ... how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the ... in this post, this is the only one I had planned out beforehand

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... . In fact, I have a free hour on Fridays before class in 10-250 (right ... itself.   One interesting point here is that a lot of the libraries

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  skates in Indonesia. Thundrblade, a Kyoto based startup, is launching ... When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am ... Mimi is quite literally just me from a few years ago, but there are so ... time in my life (it was a modular synth techno set, if you were curious

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  Zoom call is just so much lower than that of a meal together or a weekend ... This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... in a much smaller group (me, my advisor, and a grad student) and I was ... A guest entry by Adam The blogging machine that is Mollie is running

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  ;feature=youtu.be 2. Whenever I need a break from the house, I drive around in circles ... chance to say goodbye to in Cambridge when we left campus. Here’s a list of ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  times so students can come in after their full-time commitments. 42 is a ... director of pedagogy in a school with no teachers, Lou’s job is to make new ... Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a ... . Make friends in your grade! Although this is a spillover from the general ... . Get to know them! Eat a lot. CPW is full of free food. Enough said

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... interruption. In the end, he graduated with a quadruple major (this is no longer allowed -- now the maximum is a double major): SB in Chemical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the ... around this time. I can hardly believe how much has changed in just one ... you'll be happiest. 2.In one year, a lot will be different I can pretty

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  spy a Lydia in the background! Basically, the moral of this story is to ... “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super ... students affiliated with it) also offers free classes in water sports like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the ... how magnetization is like a covariant vector. Ex: Me: “Hey, can I borrow ... This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy ... Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much ... Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015