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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  -reliant person. The idea of packing my things to live alone across the country ... Learning and Engineering Design for what felt like forever, I decided to try ... . For our cohort, we created a game where robots had to remove tennis

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  aspects of research, to show anyone with a knack for knowledge how ... absolutely exhausted one evening, getting to bed early for the first time in ... each other for a couple of months, but already we were well on our way to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  First, I want to thank my amazing roommate-in-exile Cami for letting ... Arts. I wanted to share with you what makes MIT such a special place for ... While I have studied in the US for two years before coming to MIT, I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship ... mind a second time. for example, people at mit sometimes decide to switch ... -startups. or, for an example not related to career decisions, people often exit a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  fill this form out? The form has fields for you to report your ... trimester grades. If you have more classes to report grades for than ... convert them to a letter system for example. If you need to explain your

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  , listening to songs about Alexander Hamilton on YouTube, and flipping through the physics textbooks I would use next semester (my personal record is ... online. I did them. I reviewed all the techniques. I discovered I never

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You'll probably never have to write another uncomfortably personal essay [annotation note="unless you ... waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  reservoir of parental TechCash money, and I actually have to pay for all my ... '08 for a trip to Water Wizz, a water park on Cape Cod that Adam used to ... road for Cool Dogs, my absolute favorite summer treat. You can buy them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  have been cooking for a long time with food I buy from grocery stores ... 't go out an buy one). Yogurt! What better way to accompany your home ... for at Whole Foods. Post any recipes you think are stellar! I'd love to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Rome! Gelato, Saint Peter's Basilica, and Vespas for an entire week.

  

  In about 6 hours, I'll be boarding a plane and going to... ROME! Seeing as I haven't packed or exchanged money yet, this blog entry will have to stay short but look out for entries live from the capitol of the

  • by Bryan
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... for a more personal writing workshop.  Finally, taking classes outside ... classes that you want to while at MIT, but this position is (for the most

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  ), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... typical ABC. For one thing, I have never gone to school in the US, even ... this goes to say that 1) I'm unfortunately addicted to that website (but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  isn't actually testing for H1N1, so there's no way to know if I have it ... can e-mail professors. So for now it's up to me to just hydrate, chill (literally and figuratively), and wait for this to go away. Awesome.

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  . That was scheduled for 5am the next day: five hours after I went to bed ... volunteers made runs to nearby shops, to buy drinks. Another resident went to her living group, and returned with a gigantic water dispenser for us to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  . Originally I had planned to just take one class a semester for a really long time while continuing to work in the office. But for a variety of reasons - some academic, some administrative - that wasn't going to work for me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to ... MIT. the latest for me to complete is on january test so pls advice how ... my recommendation letter for social studies and English teachers to a

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications ... not need to rely on a desktop for hefty exports and renders. Once the ... -resolution monitor. This 27” monitor has proven to be incredibly useful for reading

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  ’ve never been romantically drawn to that kind of person—the Forbes 30 Under ... This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  myself, and i only do want to speak for myself, when i say that my ... ’s okay. for me, bupropion is turning out to be okay. my psychiatrist and i ... ? is the point to make me feel normal? what does normal even mean, if for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  to get emails saying I helped your admissions process. Thanks again for ... 'm not dead yet :) It's definitely possible for a vegan to survive! It ... -Conner every suite has one. The only issue is finding time to cook for yourself

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007