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• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  . So why then do we ask for this information? Simple - it helps us to ... be hesitant to report your ethnicity because you don't want to be ... rumors to the contrary, being Black, Latino, Native, or any other minority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  memory. This spring break, I went to Chicago with my family for a weekend ... . Campus Preview Weekend for me was a chance to create a real first ... really is just for the fun of it. But it’s a great opportunity to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  is a hotspot for birders!) joanna always being willing to grab lunch ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... my younger self for behaving that way. they just had a lot of growing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  resign." "It'll be good for you. You'll learn to deal with failure." It ... went to New Hampshire with my roommates for a getaway, a break right ... hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  must be to run an Instagram page, or how quirky I am for learning about ... in. To simply do things out of a love for it and nothing else. I hope ... sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  time to take in everything around me. For the most part, campus looked ... I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn ... to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully ... different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you ... to find some residential trees. For whatever reason, they were mostly

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  . This got me thinking: what would a success profile for an MIT student look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of

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

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super ... as you look for the opportunities. I didn’t know where to look last ... internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  for those who just tuned in) kid, I have to take this *one certain class ... You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT.” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer, you'll find a pretty heavy ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to try out for their annual competition, Mic-Check. If a student had a poem

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  lead to greatness in any field. But for me, and for any performing artist ... [by Danbee Kim '09] My mother, like any other parent, likes to keep tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  schedules to tell you what my scheduling looks like for the upcoming semester ... space for electives, and deciding which exactly to take is hard! (yes ... classes). This makes for my most productive day ever since coming to MIT (I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  classes. Uh...right. What if that's just an annoying chore for him, to do ... catch my reference to the movie Aladdin. Apologies for all the fangirlism ... I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... convinced me to commit. For the next four months, MIT Sports Taekwondo would ... point for it. And with no baskets, holes, or lines to guide a judge in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  questions you for an hour about what steps you are taking to solve a problem ... for very long. Also, it really helps to organize the subject matter ... waiting for a scan to complete when our supervisor commented that although

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  hell as well—i locked myself in my room for a whole week to study. masha ... with my friends. i'm really excited for the chance to hang out with ... *spiritual cleanse.* shoutout to my difficult and tumultuous semester for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  pay the bills. It is a side pursuit for when I am not writing. I used to ... for advice; I’m excited to gain confidence, come into any machine room ... Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021