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• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  deceit, and they're in over their heads. The key to getting past it ... , but your fellow students and brilliant faculty are there to provide some ... . Keep your head out of the clouds - but don't be afraid to hold it high.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  had finished early. I had two minutes to get to Kresge auditorium, where ... practices. Finally, we need to combat problems like obesity by examining a ... added this to my “10 reasons why I love MIT”: the lectures! We get to hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and ... Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  . Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... considered. I have to get back to my readings, but hello from Detroit, and ... already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :) ... in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  . thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won't get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... 's applied to real-world problems. also, we get free dinner before every

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda ... slightly less smooth than last time, because i had to carry boxes up three stairs rather than down three stairs, but it was fine. piece by piece

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• FAQ / Interview

  How am I assigned an interviewer?

  After submitting your application, you will be notified if there is an Educational Counselor (EC) available to conduct an interview. If an EC is available, they will reach out via email to schedule an interview
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  had to be screened by three different people when I went to check in for ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  insecure about herself and needs to prove her worth to everyone around her by ... support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your ... @mit.edu with your full name and mailing address. We'll use this information to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  occasionally law school, looking for places to live in their new found location ... , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... with. So I am allowed to go to senior ball, senior week, and any other

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Many of my readers know by now that if you're ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to ... to read, or an essay, or a song they had written, they would be

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  the window watching the cold concrete walls zoom by as I just sit. I ... needed to be. I've always very much been a more ... bothering to chew.  I find myself feeling like a ghost, wading from one event

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  activities planned, our new shirts just got here (3 boxes containing several hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our