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• 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 / 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
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  Lab, the same lab that I had UROP'ed in. That first year of grad school ... of the work, but we were both busy. Suddenly, it was June 30 and we ... , and trying to "make the most" of my last semester of college, despite

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  psychology. AP Psychology was one of my favorite classes in high school so I ... from 7th grade to junior year of high school scouring different fandoms ... of it I remember. 6.006 - Introduction to Algorithms; One of my major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  . MIT can offer you everything in terms of academics. I could not ask for ... . At a school like MIT, people are from around the globe, so I know I am ... changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  this busy before. I used to think the first week of classes was so busy ... .[/visually_hidden] This is a reference to the end of my high school valedictorian speech ... , hopefully this format makes sense. I'm donating half of the income that I

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  frequent flyer miles like nobody's business. Those are probably some of the ... post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like ... , so here's a revised version: Here goes: I'm Mitra, class of 2007

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  three weeks, I've been spending most of my free time on medical school ... offers one. Secondary applications are unique to each school and generally ... with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  75% of the pset left to do. I chug along and get through most of the ... along until I get some form of an answer, and call it a day. I definitely ... , brush my teeth, and run downstairs. It’s just like a normal school day. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of ... ."]one of the few[/annotation] schools that requires PE classes for graduation ... opposed to the rigidness of high school PE that a lot of people hated. Now

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  of high school, and having graduated from MIT, I live with roommates in ... —horrifyingly embarrassing to think of now) or, especially, before and after school. A lot of ... proud of. Here's a timeline of my career: 2006-2010: high school, the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  . We had all sorts of different schooling systems, hybrid, online ... schools offer more limited coursework, or the students are not tracked in ... . So using the requirements of a school, using their tendencies, their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  offered at your high school, and there are immense disparities between ... offer any remedial math classes ‘below’ the level of single ... MIT regardless of what was available at the high school they may have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That ... a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of this too honestly too much of this some of this and a sad amount of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  profoundly frivolous. As director of the Comparative Media Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the past two decades in studying manifestations of popular culture such as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005