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• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason ... things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to a pretty sizeable amount at the beginning of the semester, since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  serious with my entries about the college admissions process. I think that it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a significant impact on my mood. This week has been abnormally warm, up in the fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  I’m finally in my last semester as an MIT undergraduate, and the ... this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I ... is just, well, FUN. After spending the semester learning how to use my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  (fun challenge: drink water every time you read the word Missouri ... to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest in the world and being in an environment where people are always ... concussion-detecting device they named the Jolt sensor. While wrestling at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  compounded by the fact that people in Alaska have received their decisions ... say that (1) the Post Office is dealing with insane amounts of mail due to the holiday season, and (2) we had a major blizzard the day we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  their class ring to celebrate being halfway through their journeys. The ... , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey ... who knows who, especially the overlaps between people you knew

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I ... going through the same practice exams over and over again, but at this ... that I can to prepare. I'm going to start the 15 minute trek across

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  After the chaos and confusion that was associated with MIT FPOPs ... 'm finally free to come back to the blogs (: It's not that I haven't been ... MIT! In the upcoming weeks, you'll soon find yourself in the true swing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in the Life.  This is one day where students all over campus - grad ... normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  points for anyone who can tell me where I got the phrase). We all see the world with the same eyes. Mine work just like yours do. My sun is yellow ... approach the world with different experiences and preconceptions. Those

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  high school but now, reading between the lines, I cherish the good times ... wrote. Disclaimer: this is not admissions advice per se but maybe the way I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  Day 0: The Wind-Up Stop me if you’ve heard this one before—“when I ... for me.” At this point in the blog, I would be stopping myself, because ... , however, the important thing to note is that for the past two years, I have

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Tube advice videos or romanticized audiobooks or way too many of the MIT ... via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... study sessions, late night conversations... the list goes on. But now I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city, specifically in the nob hill district near downtown. i didn’t know much about sf

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

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless. it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid ... neighborhood, and the sun is starting to set, casting a golden glow over the well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... , the professor asked the class if we knew what the hegelian dialectic was ... the relationship between masters and slaves; someone else said it was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have received questions from adMITs about whether the terms of their admissions offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... with the term, fabrication is Engineering Speak for making things. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019