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• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  pretty lively college experience. Where else are you going to make music ... free food, wander around campus terrifying prefrosh, and brew gallons of ... yes. Although I am arguably nerdy and awkward, MIT students are

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  Maison Française," "MIT Classes," and "MIT Extracurrics" are now all in a ... school. Inside are e-mails that I saved from my high school days, back when ... : Where do you live? Me [thinking: don't you have my address right there in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  fun! Our favorite part is here, where they are singing Zero to Hero ... We are in our senior year of college [annotation note ... to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  students and the general public are welcome to join Professors Richard Young

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  . Because the blogs are how we tell you stories. Maybe that's why so many ... Dan made a wrapper that turns a web app into an iOS app, an open source ... , and/or modify on Github here. I asked my friends who made this app to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions ... progress you made iii) how that progress contributes to your overall ... dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  are free resources online that you should check out: edx.org Free ... , feel free to skip to the video and the extraction protocol, or just the extraction protocol. From the beginning— Our bodies are an ecosystem of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am ... kindergarteners! 5. Food made from scratch (or close to it) tastes so much better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... What are you writing your essays on? well I did one draft about a club ... are you most likely to ask on a campus tour?  what do you mean

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a ... ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  must be...there are actually like, too many good applicants. i weep ... she made her application entirely out of second grade arts and crafts ... will one day be hallowed as the Bethlehem where the doctor robot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  comments, emails, phone calls, owl post -- this week has been, where's my ... . Why is it taking so long? We are processing documents from more than 10 ... have already sent. Odds are, we have your original and have not processed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  here. I mean, I guess there are prospective parents on the blogs, but ... free to ask me questions! Otherwise, stay tuned. I have plenty of ... 's where it ends. And now I'm a pilot too. So when last Family Weekend

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  event where you drink tea with cream, it's actually eating scones with ... 't know, there are MIT clubs all over the world and they're basically for ... , onto the event itself. I think most of the students went because (1) free

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  we, um, don't). They are a half-hour walk from MIT, by 3 pm or before ... -so-distant horizon, and from that distance they don't look like they are separated by 0 ... are far feel less far when you yourself are far away, and things that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  thinking it.  Passing conversations during Orientation training—What are you ... soon, because I’m everything I think I’m not. Hey, what are you up to on ... frats operate at MIT, they are all collected under the umbrella of the

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... .   Here are what those numbers on the colored rectangles mean and why

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the decisions you’re looking for. 2022s are happening

  

  decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and ... sure you are ready to receive your decision before signing in to

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  in an amazing urban environment (aka Cambridge/Boston) where there ... intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  where I missed cheering on my friends, the texts and FaceTimes I didn ... would have made me a kinder person and a better friend. I want more time ... spend my free time in healthier ways. This sounds very dramatic, but

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020