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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  answer I have for you guys is… the first time I heard a song I started to ... wanted to focus on urban dance for my first year in college. I ended up ... Mocha and one DT dance my first semester since it was just enough to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about eventually...). But since I don't really have anything interesting to say about IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  asked students to share their reflections on their background, their weekend on campus, and where they hope to go next. Hear straight from them: Tell us a bit about your hometown, your interests, what you like to do

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  enlightenment from the generations gone by, ready to fill eager young minds with ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT ... transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  your first experience test-driving real life. I say test-driving because you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  Things to Do Before You Graduate." [caption id="attachment_49906" align ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here ... 's bound to be overlap."]if I wrote it.[/annotation] [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  clothes. Instead, rinse them out by hand first to get toothpaste and marker ... This blog post is an ode to whiteboards, which I love very, very ... perhaps most importantly, how to fix old and dirty whiteboards. You know how

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  obvious one. Because it was my first time actually trying to sell myself, I ... of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice ... , and anxiety. Last year, I went to the career fair with the primary

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  and ready to be read. I believe the first folders were released to the ... Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01 ... . Please don't worry, and there's no need to call the office for at least

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  , where we can hear each other and respond to each other's voices; the first ... surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing ... soul. These feelings usually sneak up on me—I never know when exactly to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  first 6 letters of the alphabet, we made sure that REX this year at ... could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and entertaining, but right now we would like to emphasis something you should take

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... internship at a large defense company and was ready to learn anything and ... graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  you'll have time in the fall (your first week here) to register for ... , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at LaVerdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned from my five-week expedition to India. Fine; even though IAP is ancient

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend who's gotten pretty involved with MIT THINK. She asked me to let her ... awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a ... got to high school, I, like many of you, realized I loved math and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  your first trimester grades. Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your Guidance Office in order to complete the Midyear Report accurately. Your Guidance Office does not need to mail your midyear grades to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  the first time. Blogging is being careful not to reveal how little I ... college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... opportunities that await you. I need you to think a little more about the "no," though. First, imagine this: you're an MIT student. You're really excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007