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• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I ... time today to see if this is an actual place that exists and it does! I ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt like I was burnt-out before the semester had even started, and it left me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be. That's right. You don't have to be an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  A preview, courtesy of today's MIT homepage: It was 2:03 pm when I ... ranked #37 in the world for its health system (according to the World ... all nations need to be healthy, we shouldn’t be the only ones.) How

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we understand that ... before most schools notify. Having an interview with MIT does not violate ... waiver does not negatively impact your application. And if you qualify for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  , and I could talk about it for a long time.   5/11/23 Another ... , so it has been a long time in the making. It was so huge and I enjoyed it so much. I really liked this photo cause of how all the people

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  is how it always goes for me. Something about a “young lady” in the ... if they have any direct flights Ruth oh dang. how long was your layover ... everything that I’d done wrong in the airport, and how I could have fixed it

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we ... three years. It is hard to know beforehand exactly how many students will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  …interesting, but we’ll see how it all plays out. In the meantime, Kevin McCarthy has ... noticeable thing about Nebraska is that it was still, all day long, Nebraska ... ) Good morning! It’s a beautiful morning out here in the [annotation

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  emerged in the dozens of experiments I tried over the semester. And it feels ... worry about how those around me, like my UROP mentor, my lab’s PI, and my ... who make it seem like getting publishable results out of UROPs is the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  four questions. "Question 1: How do you look deeper? To what depth? As it ... it? Or does each reader/admission officer at MIT have their own ... question, how much does getting recruited help you in the admissions process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  worked.” I don’t know if that’s true — how does this compare against my 5 ...   “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from ... tells. If I'm listening to music more than I'm listening to podcasts, it ... 'm struggling to maintain a sleep schedule, it might be because I don't have the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  [/caption] It took me a lot of time to write this blog. I couldn’t figure out how ... three years of loving it, has taught me how to find and grow the little ... last year of Mathcamp. In hindsight, it’s no surprise that I applied to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next ... quarter-long PE classes). Your chosen major(s)/minor(s) requirements ... , but devote more time to teaching you how to write. Some pro-tips for CI

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  get to dictate how its told. And that's pretty empowering. And I guess ... It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It ... application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  since I last visited which is also how long it’s been since I’ve seen most ... stressful, but it does seem like it'll pay off. My favorite moment so far was ... New Hampshire and learned how to ice climb! It was a lot of fun, and I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  water, no matter how hard I try Every [test] I take, every [pset] I [crack ... , where I long to be... Okay I'm done now. I've taken way too many photos of ... , it was all engulfed by the infamous Boston fog. Thanks for always being

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  with it Why does anyone care what I think of this pie The 1 to 10 ... . More questions. “What?  How does that work?” I explained, “There are only ... interpretation of a given individual and how applicable it may be to them.  I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... , so I'll save it for later :D First, let's talk about computing. MIT

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014