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• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  games are staples of an MIT student-athlete’s spring. Those games are a ... Isaiah N. ‘26, and they told me a little bit about life as an MIT lax bro ... . Outside of lacrosse, I am an undergraduate researcher at MIT’s Computer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that ... math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  :) even with MIT, it was (and kind of still is, when i really contemplate it) weird to think that “i am an MIT student.” MIT wasn’t my childhood dream ... more psyched to come to MIT, but i still had my doubts and worries even

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : the view from on top of Cambridge's tallest building. The MIT Radio ... "] Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi le:Green_Building,_MIT ... space at MIT. It could be a fantastic space, open to all parts of the MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been ... want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and ... wrote about wanting to help out with the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... love MIT. Let me tell you about my friends, without naming names: They ... MIT, and it's inspiring. It gives me hope in a state of the world whose

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  am a course 20 (biological engineering), and I am in my 3rd year at MIT ... completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now I don't mean to say that MIT is decreasing my ability to be creative

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  friends/free time has changed a lot since I got to MIT. One of the biggest ... have. I remember thinking in high school, “I hope the MIT curfew is not ... semester at MIT I decided to have a very heavy load over MITs independent

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT ... fulfilling orders from Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, MIT, the MIT Lincoln ... were VR visionaries, TechCrunch bloggers, MIT alums. The auditorium was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  field anyway, so why not start early with a relevant degree? MIT did not ... ended up taking two Political Philosophy classes this semester, one at MIT ... explore the topics I adore. I work on two different projects at the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... this minor, the first response I usually get is, “MIT has humanities

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  You know what I thought I was good at after getting into MIT? You ... applying to MIT. I went to an ordinary public school, and they prepared me ... fact, I know a transfer student at MIT who did exactly that, and now he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  got in a room with former blogger/current producer of the MIT+K12 Videos ... :   Noah was going to be on campus for MIT's SAT test prep ... an actual wizard. Loren applied to MIT while I was in grad school, so I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  I live on a campus. While I was at MIT, I found myself wondering how ... have been "MIT," rather than "Cambridge" or "the Boston area." My German ... saying that I think MIT undergraduates should live off-campus. Obviously

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... . In fact, I made a really conscious effort when I returned to MIT last ... new experiences and have MIT mean something entirely different and new

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  into the present and, lest MIT spontaneously implode, many more strange ... subsequently danced a jig while waiting to be swept away to MIT, then envisioned ... the genius of allowing freshmen to pick their own living groups.) MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled ... way to track my spending. I opened an account with the MIT Federal Credit Union (partially because I get a debit card with "MIT" on it and a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  activist Aaron Swartz, the hacker group Anonymous allegedly attacked the MIT ... MIT network. Basically, if you had a smart phone on 3G, you couldn’t get to any sites that ended with .mit.edu whereas if you were on your

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  that when you take the test, you designate MIT to receive the scores. You ... , but don't expect that they will have time. Your EC is an MIT alum ... interview report has not yet appeared on your MyMIT Tracking page, your EC'

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  demanding. I think I might have found myself running on the MIT treadmill a ... understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT ... realized I couldn't stand the thought of being away from MIT for summer (2016

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012