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• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  *, I suggest hauling your personal belongings over to the South Station ... in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I suggest converting to Firefox.] [EDIT RELOADED: Manually fixed. My

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Malibu, I could get used to you.   Monday, September 8th   ... Every year our office travels all over the country to speak to students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job ... lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  would get to it eventually a few times, and then I forgot a few times ... students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... . 3. People who go to MIT lose their ability to count. Also, they forget

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…

  

  An email I just sent out to my sorority: from: Shannon to: Theta date ... Michigan, which gets some of the most snow in the US, right? Our standards for getting school off were really high- and even WE would have had a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... biological technique that helps you detect a protein and get information about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  the one before it, so there was pressure to get a working solution every ... something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  … I did snag a hot dog at Theta Delt (thank you for your kindness to a ... something to be said for being able to get from Mass Ave to Kendall Square ... Barton Rogers’ alma mater (10 points to anyone who knows without

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  a "Counselors College Fair" (I may have even said hello to your ... is greeted with generous aid packages. It was also nice to get to ... !Helping Students with Asperger's and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Go To College

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  highlight events that you are excited about. We want to know about your ... through your eyes. To put it simply, we want MIT students to help us ... them back out to the best of our ability. If your student group is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  you're taking one. Because everyone in MIT has to take them, it's more ... someone to get it graded, but it's similar to a weekly problem set. 6.101 is ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours ... adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... docile and everyone gets so excited about them and they just sit there all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  least socially acceptable. Feel free to reuse them at your own risk. Tier ... them; if you're asking for something or have something to genuinely thank ... ."]executive board[/annotation] and how people choose to divvy up the work from year to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  each other. for a while i tried to get the best of all worlds - i was ... people like your parents telling you what to do, you gain freedom in social ... is to surround yourself with people who are free in ways you’re not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  ’s like to actually be a student here, or that I've helped you in your own ... Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  somewhere else entirely. I may be rusty when I get back to writing. But I ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  about my class projects here. A major contributor to my enjoyment was ... music technology to open-heart surgery. The freedom to choose between so many classes enabled me to learn and apply interesting ideas across all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  , and as such have to cross the bridge every day to get to campus. A lot ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus. Like any other morning, it looked like I was walking to campus. But as I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  to get to work today. And that included stopping at Laverde's for Froot ... ). And it took under 10 minutes to get there. It takes less time to get ice ... OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005