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• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  Continued reflections on love at the Institvte (and really just love ... you. But at the same time it's when silence feels just as good because ... .   No matter what you call love, at the end of the day it’s an

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  fruit to name a few of the things we bought. I’ve shopped at Costco ... prefrosh hosted at McCormick with loads of love (and lots of sugar). We ... bubbles? There are many more things that we have planned at Mc

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... I got out at Logan airport, and I immediately entered a state of utter ... twenty people that there is no wrong way to do CPW. My host at the time

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  opportunities to participate in student-run activities at MIT. Yeah that’s a ... booths that we will be at!!!!! Borderline: Borderline makes public art

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  ; We are also each assigned a classroom or two at a local public school ... ;   At the charter school that I observe at, Prospect Hill Academy

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  must pull at least a dozen others with you.” I wish I’d heard these words ... poet,” or, in stronger terms, “At some point you must face that anti ... applied with amazing results. At MIT, the class that best embodies Woodie

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of ... animation alone will make you cry (at least it made us cry). cameo: person ... graduated last year came to visit for a weekend, and we had brunch at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... can be solved by doing a quick glance at it and writing down the answer ... component! Next Tuesday, I will be smelting copper from minerals from 7-10 at

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  and posters all over our room. Like, a lot. caleb's desk at center, cory's desk/bed at right, caleb's bed at left On the right corner of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  grades, or I’ve taken some classes at the local community college or online ... (taken at BCC) A+ Multivariable Calc (Online) Pass But what should I ... then find out about an award afterward? Just email admissions at mit dot

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  took a turn in my seat and looked at all the people around me. I looked at the faces bursting with pride, faces that have become familiar. And ... , then we owe it to them to look over their application because at some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  cool anime store in Boston! 13) Tattoos that say “Arts at MIT” that we ... , which we acquired at a time in a place 18) Four photo booth picture

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  , 2017 at 12:26pm PDT   Two years ago, at the last commencement I ... ,' aka MIT alumni attending their 50th reunion, are guests of honor at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  ’re studying at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid, living with a Spanish family! El oso y el madroño: the mascot of Madrid At first I was hesitant ... Spanish culture class taught in English (which Crystal took—go look at her

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  girl scowling at the camera in a dress, I figured Dennis at least looked ... -eyed Dennis-ness. For even if life throws thousands of lemons at you, curve

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  problems you see.” Matt Damon would travel far away from Boston get a look at extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... professors like Susan Mercott at D-Lab are focusing on water and sanitation

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4 ... -changing potential. Sam Altman (president of Y Combinator) gave a talk today at MIT ... smaller wins - developing reusable rockets, for example. Why do this at all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  only left with two choices, neither of which I thought much of at the time. Fast forward nine months into my first week at college. I was ... at MIT, and thus I made it my goal to transfer there by the end of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... the future, at which point the OX mark will disappear to be replaced

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... find these things at MIT, it's also easy to forget to build them. And it's equally possible to find these things, and happiness, at other universities

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015