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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  , offered in three different-flavored classes in the spring and fall. Most ... . Yesterday I overcame yet another longtime fear and gave blood. I couldn't help ... blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23 ... among MIT Bloggers. I showed my brother and he said “Well now you have to go there, Kayode, that’s all you listen to.” And he’s not wrong

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  two kidneys," and [annotation note="Can you really be certain you only ... , though, I’ll spare everyone the pain of Schrodinger’s equation and just ... longer in high school and b) supposed to be somewhere (read: class) right

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought ... was a fairly large hollow ceramic mushroom. And since the beginning of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of ... Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you ... grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  professor last night, and frankly everyone is just counting down the minutes ... !!!!) and saying "Forget science. I'm dropping out to be a Benedict ... ://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation and wrote: I. Hate. These. Emails. Any motivation I have to fill out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the ... , some of which were fashionable, and some of which were unfashionable ... tears of frustration, they crystallized on my cheeks and shattered one by

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  for my Lolo and restore him to a better state. I feel useless ... movie had ended, my hands shook with such a fierce tremor and I remember just calling up my grandparents and telling them how much I love them. A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  offers, interviewing at a dozen different places, and already having plans ... , and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I was staying on campus and was updated on testing and all that jazz. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  only have three semesters left at the institution, and I've been thinking ... looking towards the future and making moves while not bumping into furniture ... incredibly kind, brilliant, hilarious, and inspiring, and they made me into who

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... set of questions they see as unanswered and/or conflicts they see as ... they intend to approach analytically and solve with solid evidence and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  Esplanade and leaving The Institute behind at the end of the day for a few ... four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... about their lives here and I read all the admissions blogs too but I wasn

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  freshmen are just beginning their MIT journey and everyone is asking "what are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW" but manage to smile and say "um, maybe taking a gap year before applying

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something that's probably only offered at MIT.) Hey all, No school is perfect. At college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  You asked for it[citation needed], and so here it is. After the list ... projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an ... semesters, and felt like I had squandered a block of time I could have spent

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a ... Campus dorm during my freshman and sophomore years, but when some friends were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards ... Pyrenees, right between Spain and France! Wait, you still don't see it? It ... Massana, Encamp, Escaldes, Andorra la Vella, and Sant Julià. Fun fact: if

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  I realize I went on this mindblowing trip with MIT 3 years ago and ... , I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and ... star plate. It was all resolved and put back together, at least all the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  customization, including resident-constructed lofts, shelves, and miscellaneous ... needed was free, as it came from the roller coaster and fort sites ... sized loft, before quickly realizing that my room is way too small and the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025