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• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... elementary school experience, here's a literary analysis of "Peter Rabbit" from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  front of you. And, of course, as you leave the security checkpoint, your ... again, you might be lucky enough to be put into business class on the ... number of friends from home, MIT comrades, and MIT alums were heading down

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  verrry busy. Here's a recap: Last Saturday: Spring Weekend is an annual ... charity banquet called Grains of Rice This year's featured band was Cake! I ... huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  school night ... that, I think, completely reassured all of us that we were ... downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... for high school students to join -- we had to wait until May to get our

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  they offer, and I probably spent 80% of that entire day talking to ... ="National Society of Black Engineers - An organization that works to support the professional development of people who identify with the black community"] NSBE

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  to take me up on the offer of an MIT tour. A week later, Josh Shiode e ... most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... things happen, like when your school is shut down by a hurricane, your home ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  around, but mostly useless. At the beginning of the year, MIT offers ... of understanding than do most advanced high school classes. How did ... with a paltry year's worth of non-AP, non-honors high school chemistry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... Computing Group. The leader of our group is Zoya Bylinskii, a PhD student, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... project like a graphic novel was doable during school. Still, I had time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  this year -- a number of suicides at "famous" schools made the news ... ’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. They are the editors of Mental Health Care in ... Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was ... , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  school (elementary/middle school) and high school in Nairobi and was within a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends, applications to graduate schools and fellowships. My stress falls mainly under

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  favorite parts of high school, and robotics is the main reason why I ever got ... of time. I've also grown an "idgaf if you think I'm stupid, I'm just ... improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  . The Dean of the School of Humanities, Deborah Fitzgerald, already wrote ... mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life ... exciting, one of my biggest accomplishments during my time here has been my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of ... the grind since my first year here, of course, and i've talked about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are ... most of the remaining time I have with these people, because they're so ... I am today. . . . while cultivating new friendships! Many of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  moleskine notebook since the beginning of junior year of high school, and now ... , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022