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• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went ... am actually that much of a freak.) The fact that MIT’s its own little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the ... day of my second vaccine shot, I walk across the parking lot to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  of the syllables "schla" and "nguy"*.) Having a simple yet so complex ... facebook-stalking (ah, the wonders of modern technology). A lot of people ... roommate the morning of the lottery, who turns out to be your soulmate - just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to make the most of my time abroad and appreciate all the opportunities that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that ... about before this summer, and all of a sudden, they all seem like the most ... [annotation note="the mathier version of physics ii - electricity and magnetism

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  continue with the math part of my degree. At the very least, I knew 18 ... overwhelming sense that I need to talk about all the difficulties of spring ... in the corners of otherwise miserable semesters, there can be spots of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  offers an Academic Expo, which showcases all of the majors available at MIT ... resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  nights spent laughing on the floor of someone’s room. rather than just ... ap chem the spring of my junior year of high school. i had just ... leading up to the meet…but some of the pole vaulters did make a minecraft

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lot of students enter as the "science kid" or some other variation only to be faced with the realization that a significant portion of the ... mainly mean this in the sense that a lot of my favorite memories have been

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... Regular Action" which happened to be the exact title of my post. Hm, go ... postmark all of the application materials by November 1, you may ask that we

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the ... and organizations have come together to support the National Day of ... with plans to support the creation of 10 new community fabrication labs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids ... …" Those percents add up - not just in the homework component of your grade

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  the tether of this place, there's something about these walls, something ... , without notice over the course of years, fuses with your bones, phases through the walls of your veins, until at some point you don't know any more

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job ... year I had applied to be a counselor, but I landed the job of AD. My boss ... Diva.” 617) Being AD means that any time any of the 77 students or any

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .013 and 7.014 are offered in the spring.  All of these classes cover the ... Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of ... of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC ... plane) of the city of St. Louis, Missouri. A mural painted by our kind ... of place at the conference, since MIT is different than many other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  , here I am, headed towards one of the biggest changes life has to offer ... make it through to the very end. My mid-lecture anxiety attacks of ... remember thinking that the test must not have been graded out of 100. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... . Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the ... and take my first steps into the world of “we don't know why this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me ... most of the people who got here in September 2015 will be graduating. The ... to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... well in two of my classes but well in the rest?" Slipping a bit will not cause us to take back our offer of admission, but slipping too much could

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006