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• Blog / Academics & Research

  don’t build the torment nexus and other such cliche advice for frosh

  

  wise, but I’d like to think I have a little bit of wisdom to share. Note ... order. Also I haven't had time to draw much, so you guys get frogs doodles ... , mature enough to live independently on your own for the first time. But at

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  last year of Mathcamp. In hindsight, it’s no surprise that I applied to ... way I could spend my summer ceased to exist. In June, I learned how to get quotes from car rental companies, how to organize spreadsheets

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete ... pieces, and how drawing connects to everything. From 7 to 10pm, the class ... had one goal: learn to apply line and tone to capture reality. I liked

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it ... ’m amputating a precious, home-grown limb. I tell myself that I’ll come back to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  is like an older brother to me! he did something that i can't tell is ... to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide ... teachers attempting to combine Rosetta Stone and mobile games and doing so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have ... offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal ... it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... a knob to raise the handguard, turn the machine on, and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.   I continue to ... aids and passionate faculty work hard to ensure that we graduate with the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and ... approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard ... social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new ... commtment to the next. When classes began, I was fine: the academics were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  to Spain']before this current blog you’re on.[/annotation] That first part came out awhile ago, and this second part got very delayed due to a ... going to write the bulk of this blog, but he’s no longer blogging

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here I am writing, because the fear in my fingers will not allow me to draw ... dramatic because it’s nowhere close to true, but I am scared of graduation

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  Tuesday I had a bad day. I want to talk about what bad days look ... -level and also not important past analogy purposes"]I also want to talk about ... . I've gone to class, I've gone to concerts and movies, I've chugged

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... --a storm, tornado, [annotation note="In 8th grade I was supposed to go to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find ... where you're going to live, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT’s dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022