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• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  . Anyday feels like yesterday to me if I think about it long enough. MIT ... Do you know what day it is? Well, one year ago, on September 17th ... first, I started typing this post a few minutes before midnight and now it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  reason to skip class. 13. Kazaa: how do people survive without it? (*NOTE ... give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it ... . Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually the piper must be paid. 2. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  -conscious when it takes me longer to understand something than it does for my ... How smart am I? I feel like I’ve asked myself this question a thousand times since I’ve arrived at MIT, but it’s never phrased exactly like

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been ... , to work hard and get that A and spend as long as it takes to get it ... define us, but how we handle the situation and how we deal with it. And I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , in general, does not reflect positively on the person. Again, it begs ... in appearance. It does not bother me, but it does draw attention which ... and it is hard to predict how flexible or concerned any individual

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

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  does one box power. I don’t know, but I hope one day I will. It will be ... myself falling behind this goal, so I changed it to finish fifteen books by ... great mathematicians. I always found it pretty neat to learn about the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  significant enough to merit a platform of its own. For those students, our ... context of your entire MIT application. Before I continue, it is worth ... to you? Does the work in your portfolio help us better understand

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  , but it completely changed how i understand the world, and now i'm doing ... is. That’s not very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as ... be closer to or further from home? How should they evaluate perceived

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more ... the Student Center (a building otherwise know as W20). It feels odd for ... but we hadn't announced yet precisely what day it would be. I did

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  digital & on a lit-up screen anyways), but it does serve its purpose ... -on caddy that does the job. It feels a bit papery and low quality, and it ... delivery please come and pick it up! Also if you're expecting a package and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  MIT a challenge, no matter how well-prepared. And MIT does provide ... we have today. So there is a long history of MIT tailoring its ... ='In general, we think it is important that the MIT education does not simply and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  ’t have to mean that you have two selves. But it does mean that your one ... complain enough about how much[annotation note="The short version is, I ... sitting there not talking, because it makes the house feel alive. On my own

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  recognized it immediately—despite having long forgotten the author and title ... a books-by-literary-merit list. Here’s how you should interpret the ... have ever read—for its emotional impact on me, but also for expanding

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  going on. As has been said before, MIT definitely does know how to party ... social life and (dare I say it on the MITblogs) party scene. If you're done ... Fall Formal, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a chance

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  honestly still don't know how entanglement works. It feels like it just... happens sometimes. But I think most people don't understand how it works ... reliably over long distances as far back as ancient Egypt. So how do they do

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  matter how many times you tell yourself that it will all be okay, and no matter how many times you believe it when you tell yourself it will all be ... a sad week for me. It was a short week, but the longest week I've had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling out those fields on the application. This is important so that your application matches your financial aid records.…
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  standing next to somebody's mom does not deserve Hubble-esque dimensions ... parse it in the imperative mood. As in, “Welcome MIT families to our ... took the idea to its illogical extreme and proposed an Ice Cube Eating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... long. You can talk about anything for hours, or you can say nothing and it isn’t awkward. Those people you can genuinely say are friends

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015