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• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in at age 16 or 15. Younger students are not a huge population at most colleges as at MIT, but each year we do admit, after careful review, a number

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  projectionist for the club. After all, I reasoned, college is a time to try out new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was ... following semester, thanks to the brilliant LSC chair at the time, who

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  make up the bulk of your time and grade for the class. At the end of each ... parts to explore with what worked best for our experiment at hand. Despite ... exactly why certain methods proved inconclusive for the measurement at hand

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  professional school applications, they will always ask for the scale used at your ... write the much anticipated UROP explanation thing. In my three years at ... currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  easily meet up to hang out in the city. We’d meet up for dinner at my ... following for so long. I had so much fun competing and seeing my friends at ... class at Harvard. I cross-registered for Neuro 130 (Visual Recognition

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I ... yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... something more modern, more suited to whatever homeowners are looking for ... 's cookies at the state fair. Studying at Caribou after school. Crying in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my ... shimmering water. I remember ringing the chimes at Kendall/MIT and wondering ... at Chinatown with my SSP friends. I went up to Harvard Station when my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  offices at MIT are. Among them is @MITStudents, an account maintained by Kellen Manning, Communications Coordinator for MIT's Division of Student ... usually at the gym at the same time, and the other day we were talking about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  6:28 for people to communicate and talk. At that time, I'm going ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  are). How did I wind up at MIT, you ask? One fateful Saturday morning while attending a community service event at my high school, I broke into ... . Along with my major in Chemical-Biological Engineering (Course XB, for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  ) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in ... sponsored by the MIT Literary Society. I literally jhumped for joy (ouch, yea, bad one.) The timing of the talk wasn’t great; it started at 7 pm

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  /Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first black woman ... favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing ... . Anyway, she gave a talk on Thursday night here at MIT in 10-250, which is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9:30 PM and gets into Boston at 6 AM. Come on, that's just evil.) but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and ... , and I live in the house now. This picture was taken at Susan Hockfield's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  captains at all. i’m not mad about it though—i’ve never performed for a crowd ... out too much (unhealthily at that) and not keeping my room clean for ... two shows, both at 10 pm on Friday and Saturday"]Mocha Show

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... contributing member of society) dauntingly feels at hands reach. The unknowns are many and answers are few. Things are changing at a rapid pace and I don

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  be my home for a few more months. Considering this, stopping at the ... I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... like the way I’ve turned out at MIT, but you always wonder). The

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  while it lasts, but I’m excited for another year here at MIT and all that ... displeasing. The whiteness screams out, “Look at me, I exist!” And we reply, “Go ... 18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  the Oregon Ducks. He is hilarious. He is a ham. He owns me at ... again, my brother owns me... at my own job. So here are some pictures ... personally can't stand Guy Fieri), so they (read: Dad) begged to have lunch at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012