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• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  this is the first time i’ve spent a summer at mit as a UROP student. in that time i have: started cooking again filled out more stamp cards than i…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because crosswalk conversations (“…host a wine party…” “No way!”) waft up to where I am sitting, alone on…

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

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  Are you interested in any of: making governments work better? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we’re starting to get a lot of questions from prospective applicants about what essay questions will be on our application this year. Although our application…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I’m in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I’ve got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. ’18, who also wrote…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  Hello there. Normally, I’d spend a few minutes trying to come up with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of this blog…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  If you know anything about MIT, you know that there’s a lot of numbers involved. You may know that most buildings are known better by their numbers than anything else,…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  Hey you! Yeah, you — you’re Chris, right? And you just wrote this blog, right? Okay. Now we’ve got that out of the way, allow me to introduce myself. I’m…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  January 2015 I saw a Reddit post about a guy’s mother who ran the Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney theme parks host a variety…

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  This weekend, I was an invisible woman. Flashback: There’s a festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been to several similar events already. A…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it was before Tesla REALLY took off.  It was a Tesla Roadster and I was awed…

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  Hey, blogs. How ya doing? Long time no see… Or, I guess, write. All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  It’s that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for registration between July 1st and July 30th.…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  “Einen Faden in die Hand nehmen, der in jedem Fall, unter allen Umständen weiterläuft, an dem man sich, wenn es not tut, halten kann…” “To take in one’s hand a…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  Last weekend, I wrote “A Guide to Farmer’s Markets”. Here’s what I wrote when I shared that post on social media: “In Colorado, we only had farmers’ markets in the…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i picked up a brown paper bag with a grilled chicken sandwich, and sat down at my randomly-assigned table…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers, majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006. Since graduation,…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven’t read Vincent’s amazing post “Black Lives Matter” (https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  I love food. This is no secret. Here at MIT, I cook for myself during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and started the fellowship on…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016