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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  seems to have become a thing of the past, even though site traffic hasn ... : you're likely to get a response more quickly, because current MIT ... population. So, I'd encourage your generation to bring the comments section

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  repeat, do NOT put yourself though being pre-med if you only want to hang ... clue as to what they want to do after graduation. Unfortunately, anyone who wants to go to medical school must make this decision very early on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... Kelley. Though I am not allowed to share details about the film itself (no ... up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  biggest concern right now is hot to get my recommendations to MIT in time ... time. How long should I wait to receive confirmation that my ... have to send them again they will be postmarked past the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway ... new year (she/her):flag-mx: 1 month ago Got to the airport way too late, lines are insane I go to check my back because my parents wanted me to

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  whole thing? Should I strive to make my posts shorter? Please let me know ... in reading about puzzles, feel free to skip any sections that talk ... begins here Kickoff The first puzzle One puzzle down and more to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key. When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and very confused, told me I wasn’t supposed to have been able to reserve

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  support to live and work abroad for a summer or a semester, without worrying ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but ... wanted to spend a summer in Berlin specifically – it's a very unique city

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  being said, mysterious occurrences have led to me not being efficient at ... , I also have a tendency to “check out one episode” at 1am. These late ... from 0%"]going to bed with 20% of my planned work done

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East Campus courtyard grill. A traditional email to EC residents confirmed that ... told me the wisdom behind making rush burgers, up to the perfect amount

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of ... expository writing are a bit fried. But please, I promise there’s a guide to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  Disclaimer 1: It was very difficult to know how to pitch this. If it's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production ... college students to tell a story so vividly and intensely? It was about more

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  Contrary to popular (and probably well-founded) belief, I once was ... ;dr not actually, but I was CONVINCED a trip I had planned to Italy was going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I graduate, and I know for sure that [annotation note="or 6.2060 according to ... needed a lab class to fulfill a course 6-9 requirement. 6.115 is known as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  know more about glassblowing than me, please feel free to let me know if ... class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat this class twice before moving to intermediate classes because it covers

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since it holds little relevance to my prospective major. computer science

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  , and nothing else. It seems almost inevitable that this is going to ... sense. That researcher sucks.” Or “That’s such an uninteresting thing to ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  it. We think it would have helped middle school Allan and Danny to read ... want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... would to a joint blog post and write about our experiences, but never got to finish it. two years later, jessica and i are neighbors at next

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019