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• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  fudge of my childhood. I've been really impressed by how easy it is to ... semester doesn't start until February; instead, we use January to do internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  giving his students free tickets to a show he's playing. How rad is that ... wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I ... cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  , there's just a late fee. Want to know how much it is? Better consult your ... 't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  over now. I believe RSI is started up but I don't actually know how to ... 't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms see Gloria's post

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/joint-post-a-guide-to-dorm-gyms/

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• FAQ / Testing

  What tests do I have to take?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests & scores page.
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  was no crash course for how to apply and make a strong application. I ... my head that I was giving too much attention to. Despite how difficult ... it was meant to. Similar to how my gut told me to just take the MCAT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  keep track of who is saying what, and how they sound is the cue to who ... undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss ... . Recently, I tried to tap back into how I felt when I was in her shoes. For ... said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  discuss how we felt about this semester and plan for next semester to be ... I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... , but we still call it Dead Week, and I'd say we manage to cram about a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  significant amount of time. How would only three activities look to the ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  , to reflect how I see myself to those who see me.    In high school, I ... wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent the rest of that day complaining to anyone around me.  When I met with

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  semester I realized how precarious it is to strike a balance between being a ... It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  stop for the second bus we needed to catch. No matter how many people we ... to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent ... reason I'm writing this right now is because Snively '11 sent an email to ... me to be an MIT blogger is because THERE ARE SO MANY AWESOME THINGS

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  .  Still, I love it here.  This weekend, I played with cats, took a trip to Costco, made pizzas, dressed like a princess, went to the incredible ... work gets to be overwhelming at times, and it's important to know that we

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  grandparents, but they're a little too touristy for a future Boston resident to pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  realize how lucky I am to be a blogger (apparently it will be the most ... on what I was up to this weekend: Thursday night: At the opening ceremonies, the Bloggers listed the Top 10ish Reasons to come to MIT. I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  grateful for the fact that I had figured out how to navigate and enjoy the ... idea of how people would treat me I would have figured out how to enjoy ... country a little more, in a similar way to how I am accustomed to the bias

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019