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• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  . I decided to take more time with my MIT application and ended up ... realized that was what I wanted to do! I even emailed to ask more questions ... happy to be acknowledged!"]received a response[/annotation] to my email a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter?"   I'm glad you asked!  As a lifelong Californian before I went to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... also simply awesome beyond all reason (koodos to Cross Products, muy ... attempt to personify a big, philosophical theme into a “smell”

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an offer which I gladly accepted (taxis from Logan to campus often cost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  letter to food written jointly by me (Sophia) and Tananya.    I ... on Instagram to learn more about our events, recipes, team, and general ... . Tananya is the current head of MINCE. I started this organization to create

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  2016. Today Claire has achieved her dream and is goin to share this ... unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a strong appeal to emotion (pathos). Sometimes he focuses much more heavily on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  problem. Mealplans are expensive, coming out to be $12-15 per meal. And in between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy ... Support and Equality) Food Insecurity Group creating ways to tackle it

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At four thirty in the afternoon, I needed to. News was not breaking so

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a ... is born. And despite the business buzzwords (integrated marketing to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up ... Halloween so I guess I had to make cookies. My favorite halloween cookies are

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month ... show... * Please excuse my lack of acting skills :P Credits to Travis

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part.…
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds: community colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other non
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  _grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I ... 35-year run. So, we booked tickets and set on going to New York to catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... computer science major just to end up as some strange cop-out major instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  wrote about all the clubs and classes I was doing. I've decided to revisit ... perspectives to analyze texts emanating from these debates, and present their ... four debate topics this semester as we are required to. My topics are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple as picking which dining hall you want to go to. For others, it’s a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016