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• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  it solved is hard. The constraints are undefined, you get stuck, and ... . There are mats, but it’s dangerous if you fall in a bad way. But climbing ... , your body just takes over and makes you fall off before. It's wild! And a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  Learning at MIT is not about memorizing formulas, but understanding how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment didn’t work, but rather if you understand why it didn’t work. It's not
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  ="which is as nerdy as it sounds"]Reading Olympics[/annotation]and even ... anyone except my family, it was clear that I loved to read. English became ... , I got my first taste of laboratory research and loved it. From there

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  thanked Carl for his company. I'm not sure how to think about my day. It ... eyebrow. "Really? How?" He rubs his hands together and squints. A lightbulb ... , when it was built 128 years ago. After an illustrious career of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  Hi, Whew, it’s been a long week! But I was thinking today ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do. With an acceptance rate of just under 9.7%, it's actually more difficult to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and ... classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  how long it would take the '12s to notice. We wandered into line and ... girl was Allison '12 and, like us, had totally misjudged how long it ... going on in like 20 cities around the world... and it sounds like just the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains ... .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the interview. First, it is your responsibility to arrange the interview. You

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  this semester any different? Or is there any good reason it might be? Last semester it was “no” for me, but this semester it’s “yes, I am ... stuff, specifically as it relates to the meaning of “subjective wellbeing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  how I've handled it over the past four years. Four years ago tomorrow ... . Anonymous asked, do you have any advice on how to get to know professors? it ... for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same. Spot. It made no sense, none at all. Virtual office hours? I’ve literally

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  midterm (it doesn't come often), or the two-hour-long kung fu tea runs, or ... 're also very different people. And yet, we have become good friends. It ... relationship we've weaved, but now that I am free, it all comes rushing to me

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  , by automobile - but at least it's not too long) and into my work ... something new or surprising, and it doesn't break my bank, why shouldn't I ... in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  housing lottery, it's a good idea to pack a suitcase with about a week ... room. It's also a good idea to pack light and buy as much as you can once ... , and let me tell you what, it was not fun to move into my permanent room

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  learned how difficult it is to define what a "root word" is without being ... the kitchen to reheat it. i see some friends from hall. "good morning ... ." "got a long day ahead. mondays are stacked for me." after 99 seconds, i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  take much longer than it does (usually I split a storage unit with a friend and it takes around 3 hours). I think it's because there are so many ... sweating. It's also pretty sad to think about all the effort you're expending

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  application is read in a holistic manner, within its proper context.
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  it wasn’t already clear, not everyone knows how to solve a Rubik’s cube ... furniture, we eventually solved our first cube together. Yippee! It wasn’t as hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023