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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls ... -cultural appropriation hanging bead doors on my closet for most of elementary school ... : Sources of Strength. It was branded as the school's mental health awareness

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School Report and ... along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such ... admire the many wonderful sights outside of Boston. And best of all, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  magic outside of the privileged magical school system. The Magician ... : that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write that you are applying for ... there is not a lot of hassle with filling out timecards. All of this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... my fall schedule. Of course, for me, all of this was happening in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  was our middle school version of Memory Mushroom. Letters from friends ... normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things ... this book.” “Oh, wow we had so many stocked up school supplies!”  Next

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  any of my “reach” schools, which was upsetting, to say the least. I was ... essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked toward MIT with a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  ; Spending Money You already took care of your school supplies and went back ... new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a ... proficient in Python back in my junior year of high school because of SSP. kids ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  school were children of engineers. My dad is a carpenter and my mother is a teacher's aide in an elementary school. If one or more of your parents is an ... 's what I spent my junior year of high school doing- trying desperately to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  know some schools and homes are still out of power, and we don't want ... looks! MyMIT Tracking for EA: We are still processing thousands of ... for EA consideration.  And we continue to be flexible with all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  some silly 9-5, or throw you into 4 years of graduate school, and you ... . Eventually in high school, though, the reality of the situation settled in ... hard, I got into the school of my dreams, I made friends and yet, and yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Wikipedia and in AP Art History, back in high school; much of what I know of ... Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... other up. I'm sure most majors are like that. More of us trickle into the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  grade of high school, so I was super excited to see them again. We got ... China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021