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• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  shutting down. After checking in and dropping my bags in a sea of other bags ... arrived a bit late, and it seemed like everyone in the room [annotation note ... , view the passerby as a person who is waiting for you to speak to him.” I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... . My younger ears knew that it was a very prestigious school in sunny ... high schoolers begin to subscribe to the mentality that a college is one

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  office. It is a beautiful space with large windows that let in a lot of sun ... content with what is already here. Both of them made me think a lot, and they capture these ideas in grounded little snapshots in a way that made

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is MITES Summer?

  MITES Summer is a rigorous six-week residential academic enrichment ... underrepresented or underserved communities—who have a strong academic record and are interested in studying and exploring careers in science and engineering.  
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  find it in my backpack less than an hour later. Great news! My PI is ... a terrible presentation! As soon as I got off the plane in Boston ... [annotation note="my main plug for majoring in CMS is that you won't get kicked

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  beating a dead horse is betting on one, so why keep putting your hope in ... . Although, there aren’t any slated for this fall, there is a spartan race in ... of this rut of overthinking and spinning a wheel in place and actually

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is NEET?

  NEET is a collaborative and project-based academic program from the ... department they will be majoring in and a NEET Certificate in one of these ... work as entrepreneurs, innovators, and discoverers. Students choose a
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... a pre-lifting state. But, I’m doing it. Again. My first day back, in ... the author of the article says: Starting over is often more difficult

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck. In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool ... . After that I went to a session on Interviewing Techniques, which is useful

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... wasted, too. If you wake up in a house that’s full of smoke, Don’t panic ... persona I put forward on the blogs is, well, just that. A persona. Do I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  .   Here are 50 Shades of Break. This is a collection of the favorite ... for someone you haven't hung out with in a long time. Emad (who ... spirit animal, in certain ways; he's a doctor who's also a ninja, ) 23) 5

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  frosh in this point of time in their MIT career is to find support. A ... , which is beautifully documented in this blogpost by Ankita and Ben, Dance ... children who have a parent who has passed from cancer, is currently in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  Sam's undeniable nerdiness and my own insatiable appetite to document ... the hell the Biot-Savart equation is, and make you work harder on your MIT application than on any other. (And that last reason, my friends, is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  cliched metaphor! Kids, climbing Fuji is like going through MIT in a lot of ... a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike ... - thanks, Wikipedia: Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  dump it in while the egg part is cooking/nearly done. This allows me to ... 've learned is self discipline, as well. I still need to treat myself a bit ... eat after 9pm or eat an unnecessary amount of rice in a day when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my ... 't recognize them at all in person. I grabbed my badge, bought a t-shirt and ... him. The issue with doing that is Leeroy Jenkins is only a voice, I had

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... conjured is gone, replaced with a begrudging acceptance. I’ll admit that I ... year, we had a “party” of sorts in which the class devoured burritos and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the money. 6-3 is actually a fun major believe it or not, and I've gotten far ... . So I thought I'd make a fair, not but exhaustive, overview. Why is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  is essentially a more concise version of the stream of consciousness in ... competition, get a head start in the womb!). Freshman year - sophomore year ... create a new word document and start recording important thoughts, actions

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016