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• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory. I sent out a few e-mails to gauge interests, then replied "yes." At a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  how to fail. Perhaps even more importantly, I always found something ... . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... expected many things. What I did not expect was to be treated, so suddenly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  r e~ made me realize how accustomed to MIT campus i’d become in the ... about how much i procrastinate on my work, there was nothing to consume my ... college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  A few weeks ago, I took some much needed vacation time to attend ... country has had so much progress when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community. At ... admissions officers and college counselors were discussing how we can support

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you want your time to have formal structure, MIT provides opportunities to ... ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  can link it rather than having to figure out how to word it every single ... 't have to do every single thing at MIT and it is okay! How do I know what ... . How do I get to know people? How do I find community on campus? For me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  environment completely foreign to me and see how well I could do. I arrived at ... and thought to myself how I, a Texan, was going to survive another ... with. However, beyond learning how to run an agarose gel and set up a PCR

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... had learned how to spin. I probably still could, but this is definitely ... time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online ... answer your questions, so don't hesitate to ask. Let us know how we can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  let’s talk about financial aid a different kind of holiday miracle

  

  's financial aid has specifically enabled me to have. "But how does MIT know how ... It's admissions season! To all of you who were that right combination of smart, kind, and lucky to be granted early admission to MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 24, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  senior year and I know how scary it is to package your identity up into ... across the world. I know how frustrating it is to hear "It gets better" or ... MIT. And I know how even more frustrating it is to hear it from the very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  tear-inducingly beautiful data visualization that you are about to see ... . I present to you: immersion.media.mit.edu. The Collective Learning group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want to give you ... , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  . Sounds legit right? At this point, you might be curious as to how we ... . We learned how to use different tools and materials. We lost a ... Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel ... , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at LaVerdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  learned how to communicate scientific results and how to develop experiments ... This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend who's gotten pretty involved with MIT THINK. She asked me to let her

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  additional information: sign in, click the light green tab "how to APPLY" and ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  contributing to that feeling, and how I feel about any of them. You have to keep ... with no clear warning? How much do I have to tell [annotation note ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  between now and departure stands a few classes

  

  of me. How was I to do it seven more times? The soon-to-be graduates ... how those ideas relate to our reality. 17.831 Data and Politics We ... essay? What defines an essay compared to other forms of writing? How have

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 14, 2026