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• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at ... can invest it in stocks, bonds, IRAs and the like. Investment is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  days without having to get S^3 in the loop."This is a little bit like the ... evolve into a running commentary on how terrible everything is, and then ... alone finishing a whole pset. Sleep is important! Anyway, one day last

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the ... Engineering with a Concentration in Product Development (2A-PD). Feel free to ... major is in 6-4 (AI and decision making). after experiencing a steep

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... through the eyes of my daughter, who was on a FIRST Lego League (FLL) team ... Championships in a few days, I thought I would share a bit of my experience with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Sam wrote, "Is it necessary for me to send in a CSS Profile before the ... in a science fair. But It is true that most applicants have ... is there a different form we could use?" Michael wrote, "I'm an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  this is what worked best for me. It's typically better of a supplemental ... personality points, etc. 1. Create a list of everything you want to include in ... ’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way in which you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  spelling. Today, a student who didn’t spellcheck their paper is labeled as ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing There has been a noticeable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  -editing school. As someone who is not that interested in Technology at all, I ... Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for ... a fatal loophole in the founding charter, that you can actually study

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... clock from scratch, cruised around in a limousine, met Randall Munroe ... ½ inch drill bit in a poker tournament, played ultimate frisbee at midnight

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  frustration in a compassionate, fatherly way. It can be the feeling that one is ... . Leadership is a moment of helping each other live — in this life that ... access to internet, end homophobia in China, provide a STEM program to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  office. It is a beautiful space with large windows that let in a lot of sun ... solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has ... content with what is already here. Both of them made me think a lot, and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  in real life, who has this really impressive, almost encyclopedic ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... is a collection of 80 images taken from all around MIT’s campus around

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own ... base layer (thermals in my case, really anything that is warm and ... clutch. The general idea is to invest in a pair of boots that are warm

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  admits (who sent in all of their financial aid materials in a timely manner ... who qualify for admission has been unfaltering. This year, as in seven ... need-based financial aid. In 2006-2007, 23 percent of undergraduates pay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be, too A conversation with LIVE by Po-Shen Loh

  

  areas. Access to curriculum in rural and small-town communities is ... how much our missions overlap. So this is a joint blog post between LIVE ... by geography, but opportunity often is. That gap can show up in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • August 3, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window ... While this is a much smaller percentage of the class admitted early than many other places, remember that here, being deferred is not a "polite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  precious, time is scarce. There’s a constant ticking in the back of my head ... semester. I’ve been working with a Cornell student who’s in the area for the ... A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a reasonable hour. NOPE! It's 3:58 AM here in China. ---- My birthday is in ... to writer's block is to have a nice cup of tea while listening to some

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  gives us the opportunity to meet alumni who have established careers in a ... opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... for (several) pictures. By the way, in their free time they model for AT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Mark or French Toast". There’s a board game that is based on the same ... last page is on a relatively amusing site — last updated in 1999, a relic ... , the “score” is determined by word2vec, a cool way of quantifying the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 13, 2022