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• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  working on is embracing spontaneity a little more, which has... uh... never ... nice on multiple levels to spend some of dead week just hanging out with ... even better! (It was also in McCormick, which is apparently hot as balls

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... someone was able to win an argument with me or not. Now, none of my friends ... problem at MIT is also selective thinking, or failing to view good things

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  ...but dreams burn bright. To me, this is a decent description of how I see MIT ... burning of the flame itself that spoke to Shadow in the dark place under the ... shat by a raven. It is the body of a fallen father, whose bones are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  chemistry tests came back and I did better than I’d dared to hope on them. And ... -me-lately!” theme of this blog post. Life at MIT is awesome, but on a fundamental ... pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... Cambridge. I think a lot of the students here are used to it, which is amazing ... have more time for myself here- which I think is really important to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  complicated dance of screens and cuts and post-ups, all of which had to be ... ’m going to get a little better. And eventually all of those days, all of ... problems. I know all of this is true, or at least somewhat true, but I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity ... challenge was to visit an onsen together, which is basically just a giant ... train) back to Tokyo. Kyoto Station, by the way, is one of the largest

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  section of the current (soon to be "old") apply section on MITadmissions ... search to quickly search all of the pages and/or filter them by type of ... good platform on which to build. MITAdmissions.org If you're reading this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  of the story is to stretch better, I guess. Tell us about something ... , obviously. What do you do to punt, de-stress, or reset, on or off the ... and find people to hang out with, or watch something on Netflix with my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  better matches for MIT, making them more likely to be admitted? Or do we ... 'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... with your interviewer to send us an extra (first?) copy of your interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  past summer on the Big Island of Hawaii and is continuing it from his lab ... prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  field, to have to memorize page after page of granular definitions or to ... . once in a while you encounter something which is so far out-of ... college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  psyched. My two cents My advice is to look at all the dorms seriously, or ... particularly wary about choosing a dorm based on its possession or lack of a ... , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - McCormick is generally close enough to most of campus that it ... : ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 - Maseeh is one of the biggest, if not the biggest dining hall on ... : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - As aforementioned, Maseeh is on Mass Ave. right next to the Stud and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new ... is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the ... perform better (it’s both highly used and a frequent source of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  work hard? Is hard work a virtue or an expletive? Is there a lot of ... supposed to equal one hour per week spent on the class. 100 units is absurd ... program with which I interview, and I think the answer to this question is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all sorts of crazy artifacts in his office and visiting him is always a treat. Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  I gained by moving to MIT is so much richer in a lot of ways than the ... As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear ... way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  want to do. And that on the flip side of fearing "falling behind" is ... to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off ... really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  one warning is that, in order to come to MIT, you'd better be fairly ... process, which is quite a bit different at the grad level than at the undergrad level. So if you come to MIT (or any other top undergrad school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006