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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... , Sangeeta Bhatia, Frank Gertler, Robert Langer, (all MIT researchers) seemed

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

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  and Conrad, two MIT-students-turned-Thiel-fellows whose company Workflow ... MIT to help start the school), which aims to be an alternative to the ... software product development. As you can infer, there are lots of MIT alumni

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  of Chanel stores. With four other MIT students, I lived eight weeks on a Hong Kong university campus for MIT's IROP research exchange program ... carrying the weight of this school. — In the week I've been back at MIT, I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random ... - and I guess MIT agreed. Some of my classmates, though, stood out for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  with MIT life. It has to do with the non-MIT life: the pre-MIT life, the between-MIT-semesters life, the free time commodity. Here's how I spent it ... MIT, where I unpacked and braced myself for a week of orientation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  (Campus Preview Weekend) at MIT. While at CPW I figured out which dorm I ... opportunity to spell a little something that we hope gets put on the http://mit ... 7. For those of you who don't know, Lobby 7 is the main lobby at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  computer related stuff at MIT...which, as you can imagine, makes it a huge ... web space (anything with mit.edu in it), plus tons more stuff. Within IS ... 's a little bare, but pizza, Bertucci's rolls (a favorite of any MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  Seeing all the parents converge on MIT campus for Family Weekend ... doing the MIT application that I realized what was wrong in my Early ... . And for those really committed to coming here, I hope MIT is a wonderful

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  , your EC is a person, and is most likely NOT an EMPLOYEE of MIT and its ... MIT applicants at any point in the application process, from "curiosity ... , and if not, you should contact MIT with any follow-up questions, or to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of some sort since Registration Day of my first term at MIT, and I'm glad ... because he was curious to see what an MIT cheerleader was like. For those of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  decision to take the EMT class offerred through MIT Medical and MIT-EMS. This ... and everything, I'll be able to join MIT's EMS squad for the spring ... do. To everyone else at MIT who is using this month to sit on their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  about MIT, our selection process and how we are thinking about changes on ... #260 from October 28, 2024, you can even hear from one of MIT's former

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: “the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship.” Sophomore year tends to be the year when things…

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice ... with the most during the application was the “Why MIT?” essay: “Please ... university, and how MIT aligns with your goals.” The best advice I got about

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  right.—A year ago I moved to the US to study at MIT, and decided not to follow the other path I was considering where I'd stay in Paris.MIT gave me ... known.When I decided to go to MIT, I tried sizing up the options, thinking

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to ... to post-secondary educational opportunities. At MIT Admissions, our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... of flavour[/caption] All right then, MIT Glass Lab, keep your secrets ... [/caption] Seriously? This thing doesn’t even look like a pineapple. Get it together, MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  stick with paper"] on paper.[/annotation] Before MIT, I mostly kept these ... MIT. Partially because I started [annotation note="ah yes, the captive ... the MIT environment/culture. Here, nearly everyone is ecstatic to talk

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  there are decisions that i worry about long after i know which choice i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  ="aligncenter" width="225"] i flipped a bunch of magnets upside down at the MIT Coop (if

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021