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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I ... from MIT, so if you're looking for somewhere new to walk/run or bike, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  MIT. I've talked about the MIT Bubble on the blogs before, but damn ... of my time at MIT nearly enough. During the school year, the only ... are craving something sweet at 1 AM. It's a ~45 minute walk from MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  've applied to MIT this millennium, you probably interacted with Gisel, who was ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... exchange to help you learn English and acclimate to MIT. If you were someone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  , Catherine D'Ignazio, is even a professor at MIT! Oh god I'm old.  Earlier ... applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use ... about who she is, what she's doing, and how people at/aspiring to MIT can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  having a summer, only what The Ideal Nonexistent MIT Student would be doing ... it was my actual self, and not the Ideal MIT Student, who would be ... : at MIT the days are slow because they are full, and the weeks are fast

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  stories. The brilliant architect I. M. Pei (a graduate of MIT!) evaded the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  class is taught under the MIT Prison Initiative, with philosophy Professor ... for their crimes. To hear an MIT student’s perspective is interesting ... happened within the MIT community and the world, from losing a member of our

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  provost, an MIT alum, and some of them are planning on continuing the ... -expenses paid trip to Moscow, Russia. Katya, the MISTI Russia Director and MIT ... !   How many MIT students does it take to figure out a swing?  

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  of other MIT people) increasingly live on different ends of the Boston ... Allan K.' 17 once put it, "Stanford is never far from MIT"). Grab some ... great competition that sends many alumni to MIT and is broadly aligned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  understand another world more than anything. After arriving at MIT in 2015 I ... from Taibei around the MIT campus. Every one of these encounters is ... time in the Chinese Department here at MIT. Being a Chinese student has

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  Interesting Work I Do As An MIT Student, and also a lot of the work I've been up

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  one of my favorite MIT activities.   May My robot for 2 ... say hi to my grandmother.   October Back to MIT for the fall ... election. Lots of MIT community members gather in Lobby 7 to write on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  -time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for ... there,” “why would you pick a class that you can essentially take at MIT ... tourists on a daily basis than MIT, but because they’re dispersed over a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked toward MIT with a ... . MIT decisions came out yesterday, and for those who spent all day ... the MIT early decision would be released. I ate all of them. They didn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of those denials were also by graduate programs here at MIT: one before I ... ). But the one opportunity I had/took, for my master's here at MIT, was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  , just be sure to designate MIT to receive the scores. Please do not rush ... interview report has not yet appeared on your MyMIT Tracking. The deadline for ... interview report. I sent things in on time, but I don’t see it on MyMIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  students from all corners of the MIT community. I really cherish being able to make food. Which is why I’m really really glad that MIT doesn’t make ... -busting, totally superfluous meal plan, MIT doesn't force you to buy a meal plan at

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off ... a printable and check-able list of all the steps to becoming MIT ... other MIT engineers to get the AC working, haha!) Then, to give Tim his

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  this is related to MIT or college life in general, or at least I hope ... around me and this was invaluable. When I came back to MIT and had a ... at MIT. If you get a chance to take the class, I highly recommend it

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... .  Look, there's a reason I'm writing for MIT Admissions and not Vogue ... of those around MIT, so I've had to adapt: Same goes for watches! I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015