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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  sight to enjoy. It's kinda crazy how I've already finished two years ... official commencement page.) I'm really excited for this summer though. I ... supposed to be a lot of fun. I'll be testing that hypothesis. Aside from

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... Sunday. One would think I'd be efficient at it by now, but I'm still painfully SLOW. I was reading Matt's latest entry where he talks about the 30

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... would take us 22.5 hours, crossing[annotation note="I mean, we were in Maine for about 20 minutes, but I still think it counts."]three states

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  Earlier this semester, I met with Junot Diaz, [annotation note ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the ... sage advice, most of which I had wish I wrote down and saved, but I didn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . No experience required, was the advertisement. Come and help out. The night I ... said no experience required, but I still couldn’t bring myself to ask ... engineers, and not the unexperienced prefrosh I was. It felt like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT, I directed the MIT ESP SAT Program (and co-founded MIT ATI) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body’s shut down. Why, you ask? Why, you really ask? Why not? I’ve just had all ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a ... is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... of knowledge of the game. I've been watching a full game almost every

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I got my job. The summer before my sophomore year, I emailed about ten ... letter. I got responses from two faculty members, interviewed with one, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  to the GAMIT's review (and now I can proudly say, personal experience) the South Street Diner has some "angsty" waitstaff (Ruth's word, I ... the title of "best milkshakes in Boston" at one point, I'm pretty sure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  I wake up at 6:07am to my alarm clock, which squirts water at me ... year, I received a letter in my mailbox that would change my life forever.  I initially was skeptical—after all, I didn’t recall submitting any

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  I’m not very good at impulse management. In my last (real) post, I ... recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  primary major in science or engineering. I (like today's birthday girl) was one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in ... -science/engineering department. Michael wrote, "I'm hoping I'll be able to double-major in 6

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  (A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of confusing if I didn’t tell you that I made the last-minute decision to move ... blogs, I actually moved to Maine with some friends when we first got

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  Nine days ago, I was at the Boston Logan Airport, and it felt strange--it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  A month and a half ago, I posted the first part of my series introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started drafting 2 weeks ago. At which time I wrote the following before I gave up

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  Yes, I'm alive. Yes, I haven't blogged since JULY. I know, I'm a horrible person. Please don't tell me about it, because I already know, and I ... I have this wonderful thing called free time, I'm ready to start

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021