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• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend ... ’re excited to meet other new MIT admits so we want to let you know about some ... the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... , a flame to protect from burning out. I get to study the cosmos with ... , and went off to get her PhD; I stuck the program from her commencement

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  to 2 prefrosh, so I’d get at least 1. But then I got 2… I also realized ... prefrosh, so I had to come up with some clever options for “prefrosh tetris ... probably help host. It would be extremely awkward for the prefrosh to sleep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs ... part of MIT culture, that they believe in, that they wish to uphold for ... , here. There's currently a new undergraduate dorm being designed for the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... made. i asked my therapist if we could switch to weekly sessions for the ... taking me to the new mccormick basement gym and i showed them my dorm and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take ... session at 11am on Narcan administration for EMTs. I went straight to see

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry ... , I'd gotten myself a shiny new UROP for IAP. It was my first time ... that rose up within me was enough to make me giddy for a whole day

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate", which varies a slightly by academic year (for example ... all exercise some common sense. And so, walking back to my new dorm

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything ... during Splash, you can get your feet wet with a short introduction to any
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being ... met since coming to MIT. For the most part I spend about three days with ... time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  introduction). Our professor for the semester was Marjorie Liu, a New York Times ... began the semester by learning some basics: how to format comic scripts, what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough ... ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... .” He was looking for funding to start OpenLabWare, which he explained

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the ... for decades. The magazine we send to donors is literally called Spectrum ... was also working on a lighting project for the new MBTA headhouse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon ... completely different to what I studied for. In fact, I seriously felt like I ... estimated the number of hours of sleep I'm going to get tonight, and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  hours for no apparent reason. Hopefully my blurry photo does something to ... give props to whoever organizes the whole thing for the wise insight to ... , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I ... . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  are the only restaurants I used to go to before"]new ... added bonus of getting to watch the SuperBowl on the bar TV. Not that it ... is an Asian fusion place that used to be called Thelonious Monkfish for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  for my sleep schedule and for my homework schedule, but I cope by ... this." I've been going to new frats that I've never really been to before ... peaceful to escape my life for a bit and just live like an Animal Crossing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt ... the callback e-mail. "Hi Anna, We would like to call you back for the ... mother, and was badly chastised by Rational Part Of Brain. For good reason

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012