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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  the future. The first few weeks of term have been really hectic, mostly ... had, and so missed our first lecture. Oops. [] One of the things I ... participate in the exchange. So cool. Anyway, so answers: First of all

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to a pretty sizeable amount at the beginning of the semester, since I'm far too lazy to go to the basement of the student center and put money

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The win gave the Engineers the first nine-game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this ... sure it was real, and then left the room to run as much of my speech as I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive ... . Five of the eight people in crabmeats are from southern California so we ... had been through it already. On the 26th, I drove into LA for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  , explaining how at first I wasn't all too fond of the internship, but once I got ... (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  ="106358" /] one of the first actual events in the year that i went to, back when i ... of the tenses in this paragraph so just bear with me a little"]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... -on stuff, outside of a lab, was scary), or any math beyond the General ... enough challenges in life or in academics and would cave the first time I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  first online community. As members of the Awesome Socks Club, my friends ... 2012, so this is the first online community I have been a part of. The ... conscious life. I stumbled into the Green brothers’ corner of the internet

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... Mandarin because it's the official language of the most populous country of ... continually wondered what the heck they were saying. I started remember parts of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  the final numbers- aka # of applicants, # admitted, # waitlisted. i know ... can. Alice McLorec asked, "When is the RSI letter of notification going ... to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of ... into the semester, are exciting in smaller ways. The rest of this post is ... a large, two topping pizza. We got bacon and sausage and ate the whole

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  concentration in biomedical devices. After the first few weeks of taking 3 ... year for the past four years, just out of my mom and I's pure love for ... prone to headaches and nausea (aka, me.) Yet, the quiet drone of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Mystery Hunt has begun! Prof. Moriarty from the Evil Institute of ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people ... , and Roger Barkan First: Recognize the various cookies used to make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  post, I’ll first cover some of the things I did and then present some ... This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  soldering! My sources tell me that when Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ... check out the Disco Dance Floor and hung out for a while on First East ... If you've haven't yet read about (or danced on!) the MIT East Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  groups + orgs, etc. rather than the student body as a whole or grad ... "the people" of mit, they are only referring to undergrad students, and ... individuals when they are asked the question of what they like about MIT and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  250-page final paper. Now, this might be a result of the chemical ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi ... 'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006