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• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the ... moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting ... worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a ... '16, to sustain high school students through the application process ... counselor to get real college essays and relevant advice. Through

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  my pleasure to welcome you to Japan: the country of neon-lit karaoke ... Japan-based company in Tokyo who attempted to be the first private company to land on the moon earlier this year. While their first attempt

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  think that by the way I was feeling, I had been determined to go here ... . I knew that NOVA was the absolute most inspiring television show to ... accepted or not. But every time I get to thinking this way, EVERY single

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  Rye, grabbed dinner, and headed to the bus stop to get back to Boston ... woke up to the second blizzard of the year (which conveniently arrived ... trip to New York was the smartest decision I could have made. So I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  an overnight bus to get home. The bus boards this ferry at 2 am and ... writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  going to rappel from the skylight to take me out? Was I going to get ... stop by and say hi to her! Also, a couple of years ago my floor (Conner ... Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  my bet that I get to California before the Speaker gets elected is ... Eastern half of the country; South Dakota, which is designated by the Census Bureau as part of the Midwest, seems much more suited to the moniker

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting ... . the music slapped though dance kinematix — i biked to Northeastern ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  freshman year. I was lost and disillusioned by the end, unable to see my ... many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... torn. In the college home, I get adventures with friends, bright city

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get ... -step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  bad), we managed to get the chunks into the moat, grabbed a few branches ... personal enthusiasm levels inversely proportional to the temperature, though this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  Yo-Yo Ma when he came to Boston in an outing organized by the Burchard ... that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  like an artificial race to get the most experience you can as early as ... able to stop working and get up and take the T to Boston or Harvard or ... backspace on this line for the past twenty minutes, trying to convey this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  trying to get the microscope to focus, only to be told that we had the ... I set to work." *Accompanied by a drawing of what I assume was meant ... leave the room when our teacher told us to etherize the rest. In 10th

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  Center in w11. Join MIT Hillel for an evening packed to the brim with pi ... pizza pies. To top the evening off we'll have a Pi competition; the person ... last time I used it) but, thanks in part to the Undergraduate Association

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  summers. To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling ... Just when my 2-year-old finally starts sleeping through the night, we decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of ... by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014