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• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  seems that now my body is out of its initial shock and ready to process ... get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  event. I was initially hesitant about going since it seemed like the event was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Like all great creative people, from Claude Monet to Steve Jobs to ... blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  ’s right, MIT requires you to graduate with a strong mind and body, while ... , kickboxing, yoga, basketball, badminton, and tennis. Initially I thought this ... , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  finding motivation and initiative to learn things on my own, which might ... initiatives or projects as things to do just because I was bored and it sounded ... As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  All 42 cheeses I tasted in college i am a cheese enjoyer

  

  sweetness in the strong flavor, slightly meaty compared to other cheeses ... aftertaste, a little lighter compared to the goat cheese and a bit more cheese ... fades in, strong aftertaste for not a lot of initial taste. 7/10 Very nice

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  China Development Initiative (CDI) and so I had the opportunity to go to ... Initiative (CETI), travelling to Hunan province to teach high school science ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  situation would last, though. thus, the initial deadline of May 15th had to be ... 'm EXHAUSTED. I was supposed to do [annotation note="a program where MIT students travel to Israel every year to teach coding and entrepreneurship to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  ’ve initially never considered for myself. I’ve also gained the confidence to ... tl;dr it’s cool to explore interests completely different from what ... , two change of majors forms, and many advisor meetings initiated by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last ... for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  give it out. Not true at all! But you do need to take the initiative here ... of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher ... to MIT can be a barrier for those of modest financial means or those

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their own and their home and I continue to trek along my MIT path, closer to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to be productive, but more often than not, i end up, uh, not committing to ... few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  free time and loneliness. While I generally try not to literally do ... hard to continually motivate myself to finish my outstanding psets and ... it's okay to feel unmotivated right now, though. The world is an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  Resourcefulness Initiative Amen. To all of those. And then I won a Ratheon mug and ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  find me approaching hysterics that stopped me from failing to submit ... 've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... really was everything I’d imagined it to be-- and more. Somewhere out there

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024