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• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  interspersed throughout the week. Other than how long they were held, they were ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for ... , pounding self-consciousness of how hard it is. This semester more than most ... when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  realizing that any of this would take as long as it did, we were running 45 ... a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used ... reminded me how beautiful it is to be human. Amidst all his projects, Hank ... always say (sometimes after a long sigh) “Everybody’s themselves.” It’s

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  how it's my sophomore spring. I'm only have two more IAPs, two more fall ... My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it ... those feelings to the side, but now that spring classes have started, it

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  convince me of how easy it was to cross-register, since she had a pretty good ... - like Sam, who does a beautiful Flight of the Conchords impression, or ... popped, it's been feeling pretty starchy as of late. Going to Harvard as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  advice, no matter your experience and how different it was from mine. To ... social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you should be elated -- but it's also complicated, and really difficult, when

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  were both sick, had a super long and challenging 6.00 pset (literally ... to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am the night before it was due), Danny had a CMS.100 essay, Allan had a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... of unshakable resolve in the face of insurmountable odds. It is, in ... how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  can’t study for. It’s an unpredictable, amazing, terrifying whirlwind ... help. I mean it.  2. Don’t take things too seriously When I felt my knee ... to make it to classes on time, my new friends would leave me behind

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a…
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  how to swim since I was 3. I was scheduled to take it my freshman year ... the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one ... students and talks about neurotransmitters and drugs for 90 minutes. He does

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  once wrote about how the resident advising system was making it ... Chris Mills write blogs for its admissions site. Mark Wilson for The New ... fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn't a result of sleep

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce ... major? It can be, but it doesn't have to be. If two majors have quite a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  meeting stem people. i don’t have an opinion on how correct my friend’s advice is, but regardless, it begs the question - how many other glass walls have i been trapped in without ever realizing it?  there are rules

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  from, and I even have some tips on how to use them effectively. First ... makes it really easy to explore. Do you need a course 2 class that counts ... at MIT, and it lets you plan out your classes over a longer period of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  MIT Medical. It does cost extra, though, and isn't included in basic ... this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... technically over. Also per my previous post, this doesn’t mean that it’s okay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  MIT (or HowToGAMIT for short). It's a student-produced handbook that's a ... goal. It's a mix of formation control and neural networks within the ... a simulation of the program working so that it finds an optimal path

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  (it’s not cold enough). I tell her about how my peas died, and how the ... education will be done. I wonder how it will feel to feel that silence when ... I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016