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• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  , my life, my career, and appreciate each and every moment we had here

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  after the fact; wherever they are going in life. Just ignore it ... life helped a lot. I guess it helps that as a freshman in a school that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  27,960 miles flown. $0 spent (by me). How? Through purely anecdotal research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of any college that I’ve ever…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  I hope you like what we’ve done with the place. Seven years ago, I welcomed people to the “new” MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen had you come here…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18, who I covered last week) and therefore someone I’ve interacted with a lot while…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  , I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I ... the best noodles I’ve ever had in my life. It was this little hole in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  experienced the coldest temperatures of my entire life. I am definitely not in ... Boston, or the surrounding neighborhoods, into your academic part of life

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  you touch an asteroid, however, lose a life. When you lose all your ... 's life. Revive is a portable AED that's surprisingly small, which means you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  It’s been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving, though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting relationship this semester, one that’s partly tortured, and partly beautifully soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... to procrastinate on psets, exams, and life. I switched up the fonts

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  life advice, if you think you're barred from an opportunity because you ... pretty big deal!" Interestingly, she lived all of her life in the US up

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  This week was a four-day week, which made it extremely weird. It seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was a bummer…

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  “Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  prepares them best for the next step in life. Sometimes people don't even ... , this terrifying next step in life is still around 2 years away. I still

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to London for winter break,…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... people can separate work and life a little better. PLUS people actually

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  up at 5 AM, the life story or experience that sets you apart from ... talk about what your life is like and what things you are interested

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It’s kind of…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  the past two years that have greatly enhanced my quality of life at MIT ... my life outside is collapsing, at least something feels consistent and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012