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• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn ... fueled by the adrenaline of venturing off MIT's campus the previous day, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... hearkens to the etymology of the word amateur—someone who does something out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  understanding the course material. Source: was sick and out of class for a few ... say the white space is actually just equivalent to my 28 hours of work ... spend a lot of time studying or in lecture or in lab or at the boathouse

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  is by no means the end. Many MIT students have been deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, and here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?

  MIT strongly recommends a letter of recommendation from both a math ... Bridge applications without a humanities/social sciences/language teacher letter of ... letter of recommendation, we strongly recommend asking one of your math or
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  other people. The change wasn’t one of moral goodness but self ... into the root of her resentment—but she’s unafraid to make that angsty ... Recently, one of my friends relayed that she grew up in an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands ... ! Because the majority of America is not uneducated, wasteful, and overweight. I ... and grandma made were of course the best I ever had, being homemade and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of ... and generous to my friends. I think that's my greatest mistake of the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... residents—we were notified of his death before the rest of campus was, early ... . in the wake of what happened, the immediate and tremendous support i

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously, which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment ... haven't rollerbladed since I was much closer to the ground. Speaking of ... of the only people I knew in Burton-Conner at that time was Spam. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you ... ) Lead clubs The nature of my friend network Favorite etymologies

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  our inbox, these delays have been the source of considerable anxiety for ... other reason). We use the same processes and standards of review during ... normal conditions. In other words, we're making the best of a challenging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  :00 - 11:00 AM: The last two thirds of cell biology lecture (I miss the first ... a couple of hours, and I found myself lying on the floor of the lounge debating the finer points of reaction scheduling in a batch process with our

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  : If I will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date ... of birth are included, as well as the word "QuestBridge." Once you ... interview happened two or more weeks ago AND you have submitted Part 1 of the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...

  

  announce that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2030 will be released ... moments of joy and curiosity, rather than being consumed by the Waiting of ... passes. I'll see you on the other side of decisions!   

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine 21E can be confusing. So, here it is, filled out with the classes we've taken to meet the req's! Legend GIR = General Institute Requirements

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  about some of the measurement and instrumentation tools that mechanical ... as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can. Professor John Leonard teaches the class. His research interests involve

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the ... Since my earlier post on MIT's summer programs was linked from the MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006