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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  .03 (Differential Equations) lectures except the first, went to no recitations other ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... . [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgPt855drU8[/embed]   First off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  pushed off the first page! So I'm bumping it back up to the top because I ... /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some ... Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  own, kindness is the first thing I will try to teach them. Passing on ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  get a long-term visa to the U.S. and the first question they asked him ... I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel ... ever been before. Coming to terms with the fact that this would be my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  family first because they’re eventually going to move there. That means ... robotics team, which used to be a fairly small club when I first joined, now ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  public-sanitation and environmental chemistry expert and the first woman to ... pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53 ... -ion batteries Modern oil prospecting The first solar-powered house

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  (which just happened to also be the first week of classes (excellent ... -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... , passing power tools up to the others. This year’s East Campus rollercoaster

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to complete my distribution. The first assignment is called "Critter": the goal

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I felt like I was a little kid walking into his first candy store. I was ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  of it.  (This kind of stuff is not remotely obvious to first generation ... ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes, attend the first lectures, and choose which ones to drop. There isn ... try to explain: Pre-registration opens very early, and regular ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to choose where to enroll, MIT snuck up to first place ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  who are first-generation to college, students from a variety of ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011