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• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science ... political science class. But, if you think about my sudden realization that I ... could do some of those things MIT kids do, it seems like so much fun. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  science, and mathematics majors united by a love of cocoa - and close to 500 ... Institute of Technology. Except this was not a materials science class. It was ... -hour lecture on the science of chocolate with pots of melted chocolate chips as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  never have to apply any of the knowledge gleaned from my 6 ... Campus unless there’s a definitive offer of free stuff, so I normally ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about

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

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with the purpose of documenting East Campus culture and history before the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  decision. Out of the 437 students on our wait list, 26 were offered admission ... many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. During this time ... from the wait list. This year, we had a record-high percentage of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... talking to strangers. i also ate lots of granola bars.   i spent a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... , but this one was much more organized. We had four "flights" of dark ... your tongue instead of chewing it. We started out with a piece of Dove

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  One of my biggest plights with MIT is how, since they kinda know that people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to ... /approachable instead of offering a blunt "What do you want" (or the even more common

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

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT, and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences. My chair is a ... High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of ... ="aligncenter" width="442"] We had a team meeting to kickoff the start of preseason. Here

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  final week of excitement at MIT. Events include "Breakfast with the ... today on this blog, I also begin a weeklong celebration of our seniors. I ... representative of the class as a whole. They are not random, but rather students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  Professor Virk teaches 10.301 and I hear he's a fan of Nelly. ------------------------------------------------------- Since you are a member of the MIT Class of 2007, You get to ask a ... much...FREE FOOD. ALL THROUGH THE MONTH OF MARCH How about this: Get a

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  couple years ago, maybe my sophomore year of high school, my mom told me ... raised me. As my mom worked long hours in a city three hours away, a lot of ... glasses or his glass of water. And then it evolved into things from a couple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... , and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying ... is contributing towards the making of global citizens. 'Global

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... ride through 33-degree sleet and rain en route to Colorado Springs for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017