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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  get into a good college, or it is simply the fact that we wake up in the ... cool 8th grader (because don’t we all feel that way in 8th grade) that is ... .S. Saying thank you to MIT as a whole is a little bit harder than I thought

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  would’ve, could’ve, should’ve a newly minted senior's freshman year regrets

  

  Hi blog, I'm a senior now! Or, at least in the sense that the ... 've already cried, once, in February, about a commencement that still looms a ... sinkage, I guess. But sunk cost fallacy is just that, a fallacy. So, I

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 2, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from ... further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... 'yourself' is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you can know what it is, even. But every so often, I'll have like, a moment, when

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of ... Chemical Engineering, is our senior design class. We don’t have a thesis, we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we ... .” And that has been a lot of fun.   What is on your shirt?  My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a ... , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had ... Meetings... it's a busy time! While I am back in Boston, look for my next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  it might provide insight. If their hair is pink because they are in a ... student is not comfortable in his nose ring he should leave it at home. A ... that in many ways MIT is trying to 'weed' out those applicants who try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  daunting (in a good way). Luckily the level of enthusiasm all over campus is ... 171 parent-friendly events in the schedule. If a visit to the site or a ... I know you've had a lot on your mind this past week, so I understand

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  's no more Cs in the despair there is hope And nobody fails, there's only ... takes me for a ride I smile at the TA, I pray I'll be alright The exam is ... I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a pain and I know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  in releasing work that I think is wrong, and it's a little painful ... or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... radio show at the campus station, WMBR. That show is now in its tenth year ... 's depression.) Towers in Senior House threw its annual Glam Rock party, a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  Camp Kesem. As I wrote in a previous entry, Camp Kesem is a free summer ... DC, the fact that I’m going to be a *senior* is slowly, and painfully ... administrators, and thirteen campers at a beautiful facility in Rhode Island. From

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  them.   STEP 2: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN COLLEGE. This is a ... you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don't pass by your house. However, if you live in a big city or within walking

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  National Science Foundation released a ton of statistics as part of their "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of lists, but one of them ranked the top 20 metropolitan areas in the United

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  what I asked in the entry I wrote before - "What is it that makes you ... classes begin. Passion is sitting down at a crowded dinner table, yelling ... trying to be somebody they're not. But how is this relevant? In this day

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  note="ice cream is so meh why wouldn't you eat a cookie instead ... know--meaning keeping a gallon-sized Ziploc of cookies in my middle ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... cannot do so, because the context in which his works were formed is gone ... "Shake-shifting," a collaboration in which both artists and the Bard give

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006