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• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  Hi folks, First I just wanted to give mad props to the kind folks who ... are amazing and are giving the admissions crew some much-needed cheer during a particularly stressful spoke of the admissions cycle. You guys

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  (obviously, we’re a little biased), and we get a lot of questions about the ... answers to some of the most common questions we hear, and a few others that ... building exercises, and introductory combat skills. The goal of LLABs varies

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... spend their days listening and thinking of innovative ways to support the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  my room is nice and warm? The first sign that something was going ... spring break, and then brought the plants to my room. Now they sit on my glass center table. My mind looked at the leaves. Those green and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  bought my first umbrella and poncho, in the event that rain, sleet, snow ... rain! OH, is that actually water falling out of the sky?! And it falls ... appropriate for the rest of the day (read: will keep a Californian alive and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge, and every open space was packed with people. Some of the exhibitors even ... that's the whole point of a technology showcase but let me FEEL!) I'm a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  sugar and red meat out of my diet, and since those are most of the things ... MIT? At the first fencing meet of this year, I started off very strong ... single elimination bout, my muscle froze up and I made the mistake of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the ... -shirts (the technical term is "swag"), and there was plenty of that. This story ... first impression upon entering the Career Fair: [for the non-MIT people

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... research involving polymer chemistry. I enjoyed the best of a friendly

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  a relationship rather than the thing itself. and of course, almost ... + a lot of work and she divorced me because i left dishes by the sink ... . and while none of us can see the future like louise could, we do know

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First, I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  Gregor, BC, Baker, McCormick, and Maseeh, the broad avenue of dorm row was ... . A lot of the time, the highlights of my day and the events that I ... to visit the site of the first Revolutionary battle, waging a water war

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  and some of the rooms have a nice view of the athletic fields. I'm lucky ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... with us. About the number of people who share a room, freshmen generally

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  proteins and writing the first draft of the paper about the project. So far ... Summertime, and the livin' is easy... and there are tons of awesome ... premieres of The 4400 and Hell's Kitchen, both of which we watched religiously

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  't catch what that implied) So the whole point of this is to take a deep ... graduating from high school, and the end of Senior Year is totally awesome ... a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes ... the gym, or the minutes of sleep i was previously getting between 1 and ... energy to look around me and feel joy. but already the lists of things i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  for Burton-Conner, a scholar of the history of technology, and a regular ... , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  the murals, graffiti, and what some would call "vandalism" of ... the walls of our living spaces, and helps define, complement, and ... people and culture that have existed within the bounds of those walls. It

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  make for the future, and a lot of those decisions involve advising. When ... all the choices you have to make when starting your first year of ... don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... time and one finish time for all of its 20,000 participants? Instead, the ... A on the exam. Fast forward to the end of the semester and we see that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007