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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  out to be something that positively changes your life in the long run

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  extracurriculars, and avoid having to uproot my entire life and routine, friendships

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  knowledge in Real Life™️. It also kind of frightens me, because that means

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  . Haslanger 24.02 Moral Problems and the Good Life; HASS-H, CI-H | K. Setiya 24

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  person’s life while at MIT. MIT does have long weekends, and fun people. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  this moment about what my aspiration is in life, I would tell you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  properly pronounce the rolled “rr”. I can’t for the life of me figure it out

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  After going through a quarter-life-crisis and switching a lot about my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I approach the rest of my goals throughout the year: Should any of my goals fail, I…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  life in the hands of another (albeit highly trained) stranger sitting in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus Preview Weekend (CPW)! Over a thousand students will be on campus and there will be hundreds of…

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday. On Wednesday, something mortifying happened that…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  how my academic life would be like died out within maybe 3 semesters of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  I woke up Friday morning and felt like it could have been Monday all over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I’d been awake and…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  -aunt Gretchen passed away and left me something that changed my life: a library of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to Pennsylvania to visit my…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  't stupid. Such is the case with my beloved backpack. I pack my life into my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  It’s the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due – although, at this point, “night” is probably the wrong word, since the sky is turning a funny mix…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011