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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... person, but I also appreciate their utility. It’s the reason I'm studying

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly recommend having one letter from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a…
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  non-stigmatized safety net for when things goes to shit I think I'm ... don't define me, it was a bad day and all the cool things I'm learning ... ="well at that time i was, and i dont want to think about the fact that i'm

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  it.  I was 27 then and the Blogs just turned 10. Well, now I’m 37, and ... than I was when I applied; and, now I’m older than the admissions staff I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  least, I decided that today, I'm going to take a little road trip to NYC. Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I don't need to, and I'm sure I'll figure something out when I get there

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  something? I’m not going to lie; what might have been a pretty easygoing last

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application So long, extraneous passages of florid prose.

  

  Brevity is wise. ...but I'm not the one being affected here. What are your thoughts?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Two Things Just a quick update

  

  1) I'm going to be taking a 2.005 test in about an hour. Wish me luck! 2) The Prudential Center is flashing blue and yellow. . . does this mean snow tomorrow?

  • by Snively '11
  • November 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I'm

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  a lot of juggling schedules and hard work, but I'm really loving both of the projects I'm involved with. :)

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The question thread

  

  Hi guys, I gather that you either have gotten or are soon getting your decision letters from MIT. I'm sure you've got a bunch of questions, so I'm making this the question thread. You ask me a bunch of MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark with three friends. We're going way north in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  hello! i'm creating a podcast. the tentative name for the podcast is [annotation note="honestly, i'm definitely going to change this name. please ... hall, but today i'm talking with my friend Avery N. '19, who lives in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... terms of academics. I'm class of '07, so I'm a rising junior. I'm Course 9 ... field is an exaggeration. Right now, I want to get a BME minor. I'm not a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  : I photograph—both analog and digital—and I'm fascinated ... . Shelby Heinecke '13: Hey everyone! What's up!? I'm Shelby and I'm a math and music double major, class of 2013. When I'm not studying theoretical

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  I'm leaving for Boston tomorrow this morning. As most of my friends and family could tell you, I'm just a little bit frazzled when packing ... .... (Also, hi! Yes, I'm alive - Sorry for my absence. Summer stories - and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  on thursday, too. Yeah, life isn't so bad. Turns out I'm not nearly as ... . @ AXO Lip Sync this year: (I dunno, this was like a week and a half ago) I'M IN IT FIND ME (you won't be able to, so here, I'll just tell you: I'm

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering ... (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington ... learned to windsurf last year (I'm in the middle of the picture, with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first time how i'll be quite sad leaving this place when i'm gone. the familiar ... i'm shocked at how long the list seems. i'm thankful for my manager

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018