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• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  completed typed 7.30 pset. I went through a full day of school, had 3 hours ... every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  been writing to offer me a job writing handouts for one of AoPS's ... all of this without ever leaving your room.  What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last ... are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  been taught, even despite taking all of my school's offered physics and ... teacher who no longer teaches at my school, and, as of today, he had not ... ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)

  

  foundation of big business in half, even if it takes an eternity! [The crowd ... saw the tables of tyranny in half. Gnaw at the ankles of big business ... like I scarcely had time to get to know the area as more than just...school

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 19, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  have heard of otherwise until graduate school, if ever. It's one of many ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... of Qiaochu, a critically acclaimed math blogger (yes, blogs can be

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  history: MIT was one of the few schools that didn’t divest from ... protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  -underrepresented high school students. I was a member of the business development team and ... . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... okay. As in, while in the motions of school, work, and whatever else

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... myself in high school and really getting rid of the mentality of this is ... to be in college. You can shed the skin of your old high school self

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  MIT requires letters of recommendation from two teachers and a Secondary School Report (SSR) with a transcript from your school counselor/official. We also accept other optional recommender materials including a school
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured ... cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  having to plagiarize use another school's graphics but I digress. Class of ... series of beaver bois doing busy beaver things for CPW 2022! They're some ... replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  ap chem the spring of my junior year of high school. i had just ... ! Pretty busy, but I had a lot of fun ... of high school dreaming about past the repetition and mountain of psets

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  year left, as difficult as that is to believe. It's kind of scary to ... enjoy this stage of life while I can - when I really don't know what ... has a SEPARATE security line at Logan airport (beware, those of you who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  ="this seems like a lot, but i read 150 books in my junior year of high school ... i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the ... took a physics class in high school but it was more hands on and not AP ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  'm here in Germany, meeting up with tons of MIT interns while staying at ... . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow-roasted for tons of flavor, the bread is some kind of wonderful crispy toasted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  senior year of high school. Additionally, the high school I went to had ... . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical ... school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  lists of ivy league schools they were interviewing at and how busy they ... built. I have no regrets. And yet in the worst part of my med school ... am also so exhausted. On Learning  The insecurities of the med school

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021