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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  the site of the first (of what I'm sure will be many) amusing Spanish ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of ... The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation provides grants and resources to help MIT faculty and students move their ideas from the lab to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  to research and to the end of cancer. I wanted nothing more than to be ... opportunity, especially not as a freshman. Below is the first batch of ... feeling that the weight of cancer was sitting on my back, and my back alone

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  , Wenjun and I dissected the meeting, speculating on their opinions of us ... "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at ... the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  FIRST SNOW!!! OH MY GOD IT SNOWED

  

  ="aligncenter" width="960"] photo from Jeffery L. ’23, he is the best roommate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  necessarily so) Teens! Come eat and experience the magic of the tunnels as you ... ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other Events from clubs/groups that we are part of! Next House Events But first a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  Medical, and talking injury logistics with my Head of House within the first ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different ... completely solo). And on top of just being injured, handling everything on my

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments, classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when traveling the corridor and note that pedestrian speed increases dramatically
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How awesome is MIT Physics?

  The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics. Fourteen of their alumni and eight of their faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  also Einstein's birthday) and the imminent constitution of the rest of ... transferring to one of the state schools that had admitted me the first time ... probably the most transformative experience of my life, and I never would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  internally and out loud when I got into MIT. How could I say no? One of the ... instruments (and is amazing at all of them, excluding the trumpet which she ... no one else was doing). This continued to the first half of sophomore

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  reality halfway around the world, but I’m sure a lot of you have heard all ... sheet) for college life. At first she came across as overbearing, and a ... niche in the giant machine of moving parts that is college? I was sure

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  math) That one culture essay on the first part of the application: I ... nudged me into the beautiful world of Japanese language and culture. -fam ... microcosm in the wider scheme of the world that I inhabit, but as small and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  here in the first place, way before all the psets and the projects. Thank ... spontaneously planning my life here on walks around the neighborhood and during ... . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Admitted A forum.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2015! Good job! Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2014! Go ahead and introduce yourselves.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  seeding cells and learning to increase throughput with the use of all kinds ... excited to wake up and make my way to work. The routine has it's own kind of ... soaking in the California sun and revisiting my childhood dream of becoming

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  that would come from letting my team down and also just the exhaustion of ... 'm looking at my pset and thought I knew what was going on. I did the first ... choices for me and, at the end of the day, that's what it truly comes down

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  unexplored intersection of science research and public outreach. Before the ... thinks, and feel out the atmosphere of a different, non-NRAO institution ... , and get the paper out of it. Some people said: do both! That

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013