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• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  website. We're asking questions like: What we should keep doing in the same way, what we should keep doing in a different way, and what we should stop doing? What conversations do we want to be a part of, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  I was thirsty. Actually, in my case it was more of a conversation ... I want to? WHAT IS LIFE WATER ANYWAY? Brace yourself. A short ... admit that I felt like I was swimming in a sea of frosh and large

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  working two UROPs! Am I not doing enough? Maybe I should add a cla—' Stop ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week ... founders who come in as guest speakers.   This is what I'm taking this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fold, Throw, Recycle I used to get in trouble for doing things like this.

  

  In kindergarten, I used to get in trouble for throwing paper airplanes in class, but apparently, that's not the case at MIT. I received this email just now in my inbox. I might try to revive my skills. For

  • by Bryan
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  with friends. i had a particular idea of what parties could look like ... , sure. more variance in age, with what i'm pretty sure were prefrosh and ... was what people talked about. the conversations i had in this "sf party

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is the first day of classes, but before I get into that, we have some ... what my fridge looked like: That's right, its sole contents were a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad ... i’m still a little anxious, but i’ve also realized things are not as

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  in a week of widespread nausea, largely because i kept expecting to ... that i wanted friends, but i didn’t really have a sense of what kinds of ... . similarly, there was a period in college where i was focused on trying to find

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  there’s a level of raw truth in that statement. A kind of truth that I ... -side gambling. Bike repairs. Okras. What are my hichkis? I stem from a community ... . And what all we are capable of in moving forward. So grab a cup of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  in Michigan. I'll write more soon with a recap of my meeting in Ann ... blog post ever! I hope you enjoy following my adventures in MIT ... fam for a bit, so I flew home a week early. We went "up north" for Labor

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  -nighters in a row. 72 hours straight. Three days can be a long time. Before you ... lose." "Yeah, I know." "What do you think?" I thought for a second. "Let's do it." We took a huge gamble. I had no idea if what I'd written down

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... the first time in a week. This was the hotel room I had bought for my ... .S.: I was told to make a Day in the Life of an MIT Student video to revive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike ... and I in really cheap rain suits we'd bought from a Walmart-like place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  , where he says he majored in "beer and co-eds" before receiving his B.A ... lectures back-to-back. What happened to spreading the love? I should have ... A preview, courtesy of today's MIT homepage: It was 2:03 pm when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  tests, worth 25%, a final interview, worth 10%. As I said in the ... In my mind, [annotation note="Many, but by no means all. Giving a ... classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  ... "Things I Discovered About Myself as it Relates to the Artsy Stuff I Have in ... even better, I learned a lot about music (which I wasn't familiar with before). I also get the chance to sing at my church (Pentecostal

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  I thought about this post while laying in a fetal position under an ... ’m studying in my room. As a high schooler, I daydreamed of this often. Opening ... . This was one of many diaries; I wrote a lot as a child. I remember what

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  psyched about brains. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of ... had a Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, and I knew that's what I ... more importantly, my freshman year in high school I briefly dated a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  . Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write ... microscopes in the world... so cool. I broke my leg at a roller skating disco ... , Politics, and Environmental Policy I celebrated my birthday! In three and a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025