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• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me ... the process of developing the program, building and expanding it, and ... applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  Borsch - (Moscow), through the Baltic States and on to the Russian capital ... , fast cars, or even good cars. It's just you, your pants-mobile and ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  is a self-governing country and not America's 51st state (despite what ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  minor I regret this, because 1) I ended up aborting this plan, and 2) it caused me to take 6.042: Math for Computer Science and 6.006: Algorithms ... . I wish I had taken 2.008: Design for Manufacturing instead, and maybe

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  blank 7) No Copy-Paste 8) They will use degrees in the question and expect ... and try to finish my PSET, generally making my life less stressful ... that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Institute. But then I went back to Nigeria for the summer, and for the first ... : Vincent Anioke. Year 2 Undergrad. Department of Electrical Engineering and ... since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same reason, and with many of the the same goals. And times have changed, and so have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  their experience and ask for donations to the university. This is meant to ... high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  , who is a grad student from Boston University and works with us for the ... . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games ... 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 / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  at Hong Kong University for the fall semester and then travel across ... I think I can/should do. “Oh yeah, I’ll take 60 units this fall, and help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was ... to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch of numbers and then demanded to know exactly what their chances of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  after a 20-hour flight, badly jetlagged and starving (plane food is not the best). Things have been looking up since then, and being meticulously organised (both my dorm room and my room back home would probably

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

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

  

  Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly

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

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  boarding another. Hour 83 Approximately 3500 miles, 12 states, and four ... ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  , an Ethiopian feast, vegan carrot cake, and the coolest farm ... dinner for 30, 105 miles of running, and a lot of Barack Obama have ... week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I

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

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  interview. He suggested that we meet up during his short stay in the area, and so we (me and another very close friend) met him for a meal before ... . Apparently, when she attended college at a certain Ivy institution in New York

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in ... well. "I feel this is a great opportunity and not just because of the ... Guillen played mostly outside linebacker and sometimes at running back dur

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted, but there are between thirty and forty undergraduate students living on ... called the East Campus Alumni Houses, and each building is split into three

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied ... challenging, it was just a matter of learning the tricks and being consistent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006