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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  managed to get a degree from the Sloan School of Management or something ... now "secrete a flammable plasma coat" from his skin and "heat from his ... imagination. I awoke with a jerk. Finding that the weather report was calling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  If you’re a QuestBridge Finalist that didn’t rank MIT, you are ... you are a QuestBridge Finalist who wishes to apply to MIT Regular Action ... begin a first-year application in our application portal until you have
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  If you were selected as a QuestBridge Finalist but did not rank any ... . Please email us at [email protected] stating that you are a Quest ... . Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  Merriam-Webster, a cake is “a breadlike food made from a dough or batter ... friend Henry J. ‘29 from East Campus. What I love about East Campus is that ... had people make a version of reddit that just glazes everything you say

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  [/annotation] from Etsy (which is a replica of one that one of the main characters ... [/annotation] from the REMAKE Received a very nice handmade gadget from my boyfriend ... Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while - or

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  happen in three days from now Also set up a meeting with your humanities ... humanities advisor and get the thumbs up from her about requirements and a ... continue learning and practicing the concepts from 6.837 Computer Graphics

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  requirement. I'm still a little scarred from trying to learn E&M in high ... Registration Day, which is always a Monday. Although classes don't start until ... -back events, your friend UROPing halfway around the world catches a red

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  congratulated me, with a comment from Raymond that was something like "Sucks it ... I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... 't really have that much experience in writing cover letters or a resume; in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... every few days. And I’m sure it all is a fraction of what her family is

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in ... I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch. You'll come down from the Lurch with an unpleasant bump. And the chances are, then, that you'll be in a Slump. And when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where ... class, Professor Bahr passed out a poster advertising that month

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I’m giving feedback or just sending my opinions into a black box. We ... performance within a group. Now I understand how professors feel. I couldn’t believe how such a diverse group of students had one, clear piece of advice

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  out from the app store if you have an iphone). Snively wrote a much ... you Stanford!!!!* So by now you might think you have a fair idea of ... internet use at 3a.m. every night. But what about after you graduate and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light. Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate for dessert after you've poured it into a mold and refrigerated it for 4

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  Ruth said: "Seriously, update! A more pictures, less blocks of text ... ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on ... unpacked anything yet. Yeah, I know. I never said I wasn't a slacker. Anyway

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  dinner with a group of people and learn about a new topic from someone or ... and such. It's not fully unique, but it does set us apart from a few ... groups + orgs, etc. rather than the student body as a whole or grad

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  MIT, but you haven't paid a dime or picked a class yet. The biggest ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes that everyone else is getting placed in.  MIT is different from other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  December 22 after my last final, drove home from the airport, and fell asleep in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024