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• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  the fox will make sense later I want to major in computer science. I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical engineering and robotics because I was also…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room 3-108, which was part of the complex of rooms along the Infinite Corridor⁠05 Now that we're…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  have work-life balance. They have friends and partners and hobbies, they

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  heard that word used in real life before, and don’t think I’ve heard it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  's...strange and it's weird because I want to finally reach that place in my life

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  real life never is, and I'm grateful to be able to focus full-time on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  . One of my biggest pet peeves in life is when people confuse being blunt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi everyone, I just wanted to come in with some quick updates about what's been going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I’ve had the absolute privilege of working closely with MIT Admissions to help organize CP*, MIT’s virtual take on Campus Preview Weekend. Who knew…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  my personal life—lifting four times a week, writing for fun, cooking at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  Everything’s going just fine! I’m registered for classes, the grad school admission process is almost done, and I’m on track to graduate and enter the adult world. And yet the…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  I’m from the Philippines. There are big things that are different from home, like the weird practice of tipping, or how there’s functional public transport, or how high school works.…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Hi there, it’s been a while! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June. I often…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  Anastasia When Will My Life Begin from Tangled Touch the Sky from Brave Blue

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  when Life happens. Judging from what I've seen, I would say the most

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  , on its own, is not as pure and life-giving as some might think. Rivers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  and have interviewed 50+ applicants in the places work and life have

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  definition of merit.) We love to quantify things in our life. Economics even

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  I’m sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston, listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz. Oh my goodness.) The couple to my…

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

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  sensual nectar of life-giving prestige. Take the reference above of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012