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• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  “trick way” or “back door” to get into MIT. Your application is not a game ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... enough to get you into MIT. Invariably, someone takes that statement and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS (Course 6-2) and Media Studies (CMS). Prior to coming to MIT, I swore I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  includes alex, an intern starting together with me who goes to MIT and took 6 ... interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and ... mentor, steven, shows me to my desk and helps me set up my computer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... will be organizing Admitted Meetings. This post is my attempt to convince you to attend them. If you’re an AdMITted Student: this spring’s event

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  days, see how the institute has changed, and go to snazzy events together ... into a lot of part-time jobs. I’ll need something else to occupy time ... science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  seeks to bring together all the members of MIT's vibrant energy community ... of students working together to implement a campus biodiesel system ... as Congress prepares to take up the president's budget, which calls for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  This year, the illustrious EA decision blog has been passed to me! My ... gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  fantastic time together on top of a mountain and on the journey we took to get ... Tetazoo. Last spring, I joined Tetazoo on an adventure to Rumney, New Hampshire to camp outside the MIT Outdoors Club's (MITOC) Camelot cabin and go

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing ... Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East Campus meant being able to glance at the line outside my window and line up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT ... acclimated to an entirely new environment and culture.  I went straight from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  place where top minds from across the world come together to learn and ... to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... 's okay.  You don't come to a school like MIT looking to coast through all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  for me while we sampled some AppleBake treats: I'm ashamed to say that ... eating to be done once I woke up, though! Right after hearing the AppleBake results, the Conner 2 freshmen rushed back up to our floor to work on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common ... apostrophe. So you would say "my boss' shenanigans." This is fascinating to me ... , I was inspired to do more research into this grammatical phenomenon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... . Right now, I have the chance to take D-Lab II. This class focuses less on ... awesome. We have 15 to choose from, but here are my favorite 6: 1) Turning

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  initiated me into the 9 to 5 world, something I thought would be easy. At the beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot ... enjoyed my time, but it took the beginning weeks to appreciate it. Here I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  me to a few rounds of “the ninja game,” offered us a drive ... : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to ... plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  Listen to this awesome, late 1950s song. Now try to picture me ... . over. and. over. Like I am now, except now I'm not dancing to it. After ... pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  Today is the first day of final exam week at MIT. [read more: schedule] 800+ students & alums came to Kresge Auditorium last night to ... neat interview with Prof. Henry Jenkins about video games and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about your day running errands. If I were to redo this entry, I would sit down ... inside was water unless it was obvious otherwise. It's annoying to wash

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022