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• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year’s Affirmations can i run MIT affirm id be so good at it 🥺

  

  This blog is to all the affirmers out there. Especially any that ... , poor, nasty, brutish, and short." We had to improvise. My roommate Anoushka and I took it upon ourselves to create our very own affirmations

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  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 ... package. I'm a student who has to go to a full need college--the cost of

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

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  summer, we are happy to announce our new bloggers! Please give a warm welcome to: Hala K. ‘29 from Michigan, who built not only robots but ... Carolina, who went on a quest to find a Pink Lemonade Celsius near her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea where to start, feel free to use this as inspiration. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  -year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out their housing survey and choose where to live on campus. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last ... Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2024 i3 videos megapost

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  legit to me, although i might just be too generous with my judgment. he ... seemed like some Jonathan-like MIT kid who one day decided to write this ... and began to erase the chalkboards. at the same time, i am also

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  worse job? Wouldn't that be better? Today, I am proud to introduce to you ... 're harnessing the incredible power of our students to draw doodles when they ... sure to read the thoughtful artists' statements below the images

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  , March 14, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... . We recommend you check now to make sure you can log in smoothly! If

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2022 i3 videos megapost

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... classes; junior year was lost to the fog of the pandemic; but sophomore and senior year I got to be on campus, living life but not living it too much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been ... . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... , like you do in your normal posts? alan: if this is how cj wants to ... 's an admissions blogger. he has an obligation to post regularly. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... application this way to help us deliver on our charge to enroll a vibrant

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in this time when no one's life looks like it used to or like they expected it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task ... (rip), I'm just going to skip over them... Next, we have bullet ... going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... project because the How To Food admissions blogs functioned as prior art and ... residents to be on a meal plan. Every dining hall serves breakfast and dinner

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I ... constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like ... 'm still proud of the projects, so I wanted to share them. Read to the end

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020