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• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  first came to [insert college here], I didn’t think frat/sorority life was ... different times in my life and especially throughout my MIT journey. And, to ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... biased personal take, subject to change blah blah blah [annotation note

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours ... collaborative problem-solving happens is that one person figures out how to solve

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and ... and Friday, so I hadn’t devoted much time to either hack prep or sleep. Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  a not-terribly-subtle fashion, because if I decided to go to Ohio State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the backyard. So clearly I picked MIT, and I wore an MIT t-shirt to school on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers ... . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have driven/flown a long way to come to a meeting, I hope it was worth the long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• 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
  • 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