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• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  pretty much the same: after all, flowers were finally starting to bloom en ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here’s some of what I got up to!   Name [latex]2^n[/latex] Women: Dorm

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... product design, so thank you DPD for exposing me to my future career⚙️! I have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... 200+ clubs that exist at mit need to have people running them or ... ’re not used to not seeing the sun every day (yes looking at you tropical

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... Jebby's so productive"[/caption] Anyway, I'm not going to do a full tour of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... ="for legal reason i have to say stealing and plagiarism is bad"]blame me though?[/annotation] I mean, MIT is objectively great. Now that’s not to say it’s perfect

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests ... testing requirements here. I’m happy to announce our decision to ... improve access for students applying to MIT. Below are answers to some

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have ... have thought waking up before 7 AM could be nice. The morning used to be a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  arrow goes from the nucleophile to the electrophile. Enantiomers can't be ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real-life appear to be well, not that different. The last question of an Orgo exam

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  yet here I am, struggling to remember just exactly where I was 2 years ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow. The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning

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

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3. 1 Congratulations, Early Action applicants! You perfected

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come from, and how I used to be. I used to be afraid of change. Complacency

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  stuck like glue to the bus that took me directly from the apartment to ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... summer leading up to MY freshman year I haunted these blogs and I expect

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation ... due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real ... ), that was supposed to bring a quarter inch of ice. But I made it here

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to ... ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by ... ’t want to leave any of them, because they were all so much fun

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... the MIT Corp., faculty from other schools and donors/sponsors to both ... faculty separately to assess the state of the department. Your feedback is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011