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• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  continue to focus on you and yours, and know that we will be there to help ... I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ... transfer students who aspire to enter MIT in 2021."]coming application cycle

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  insecurities happens to be loneliness, other people get ensnared in emotionally ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  aspired to be the sort of person who could just get up and run obscene ... to realize that I was getting better as a runner somewhere around 9 ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  to get off the train and insist on going around the loop three or four ... closes in, I've started to get my hopes up high for the school year and ... bridge and I have a single for the first time, so I'll be getting used to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  free to close this tab or even turn off your computer and go take a walk ... Music to complement this post Tweet to complement this post Post (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  responding to your questions from last entry, and the Burton 1 Cribs entry ... to ask? Comment your questions in. (By the way, I probably won't change ... elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above ... , when you're hard at work putting off a problem set, you realize that you ... along MIT's basement paths and provide your friendly lurkers (i.e., me

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  . We made sure to get one with a kitchen so we could cook food if we ... , we planned an ambitious itinerary to make sure we could get everything ... This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super-cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began. What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to ... friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent ... happened consecutively (from 9pm on Thursday to Noon on Friday). Ever since

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met later than us get engaged already. What happened to my Facebook feed? It ... potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... wasn't getting to the other side all I ever wanted? So I took off and ... Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  ’t “in” with them, such as yours truly. But I have to admit—this story ... first came to [insert college here], I didn’t think frat/sorority life was ... different times in my life and especially throughout my MIT journey. And, to

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  baby and people are always saying things to it like, “you have your ... three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... much else to say about those dark, dark weeks. When you think about it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Crunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get more into virtual ... and I get back on a semi-regular schedule, I want to keep this momentum going in meeting people and building cool things as I get ready to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  caught up in racing to get all my work done this sophomore fall that for a ... Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO ... much my childhood! I went to all the book premiers and dressed up as a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can't pull off during ... people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to ... around Twitter.    First pic credited to Twitter User Dirty 30 Dave

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  started to get that overwhelmed feeling again, wondering if I really was ... : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to ... plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012