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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  . There are also a lot of free-standing stores on Newbury Street and in the ... most of the stuff the average student needs on a day-to-day basis (and ... : Communication Requirement A score of 5 on either the Language and Composition or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... . 3) Humans of MIT a project started by our very own emad (and talented company) based on humans of new york. it's lucky to share uniquely intimate

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  going on in that room, and thus quite possibly a whole bunch of people in ... Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and ... actually goes on at MIT, and decided that said series would inevitably morph

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  -based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of ... student body, and a great deal of those private school students are from ... students and first generation college students. I'm proud of that, and those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  a list of a few students who had emailed, and my name was on the list ... my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding on you when you travel. You will need them. And of course, your ... specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  a group, climbing on rocks and taking pictures of waterfalls. i went ... "]boba[/annotation]. then it's back to the office, and i have a 1-on-1 with steven and he ... year and having improved and that feels good. i have a defined set of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in ... organization:   Time to stock up on Staedtler Muji Sharpie pens of an ... I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  jobs to focus on one job and classes. To focus on being happy. Most of ... enjoying the writing classes and my job outside of class working with polymers better than some of my materials science classes. And it got me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  plenty of room for you to tell us about any special circumstances regarding your school, community, or family, and any other information that you ... We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  'm not too fond of my US senator, Rick Santorum. I won't go into any ... strong that I felt the need to express it in an avant-garde photomosaic on ... is a lovely picture, and I've been trying to find an appropriate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  on the fact that MIT had come to be home to me just as Toronto was, and ... (The subtitle is from my unpatented and unholy mix of the songs ... alone and spent a lot of time with myself, and as others have mentioned

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  a lot about the design and fabrication of complex machinery, then you ... % of its solar array, and yet still the MIT team was able to finish in ... trouble with the police?) Tech Model Railroad Club: The original home of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  MIT on a moment's notice and still do an okay job. And people laughed at ... Art"), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). Cross registration is ... ). At the end of the day, I was glad to call MIT my home (as I prefer MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  visualization, oscilloscope showing the waveform of the music, and surveillance ... addresses, judging by the number of friend requests I've been getting on ... plan - a critical look at all of our publications and the web site

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  shipments tendered by or for you[...] Any other use of [the] tracking systems and information is strictly prohibited." Thanks, Amrik). To those of you ... As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  in on all of the details soon. Relatedly, I will also be doing a small ... rotating list of other props-worthy links, and currently those links are two ... 'Grady, which is a lot of fun (and you can watch the episodes online!); I'm hoping

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my ... board game and gaming meetups (think Blood on the Clocktower, not Dungeons

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  On Friday, May 22, I put on some waking-up music and started packing ... . Temporary as it had been, my room was a home and a safehouse. With a west ... footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  and Doing Things on colored post-card papers, and a curated set of ... were all on campus, 20 or so of us packed into someone’s dorm room, and i ... the cost of reputation in the pre-taylor-on-spotify times and lying on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020