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• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  that you don't need to make a special trip here; this is only if you are ... interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  fair to compare one or the other on par. Joining a fraternity doesn ... places a key emphasis on trying not to perpetuate this bitter feeling, and ... . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  a new program without much money, but they would be delighted to ... , where the most exotic moths are to be found. On New Year’s Eve, we visited ... view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  experience new places, but it was so fun to rely on the Chinese language to ... Really Good Chinese. I got to know him better last January on an IAP trip ... on Facebook, Gchat, or Tumblr, there’s a good chance it’s from her. I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  "]AMO[/annotation] class on a whim, and by then it felt too late to reroute my entire ... I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond ... drive with Mira, another pika resident, to a nearby lake. I’ve been

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... . But on the contrary, everyone spoke to me the same way they spoke to ... personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place ... to get a new video before we absolutely had to make the last bus. (We ... things on campus but I ended up escaping for one day to go on a day trip to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  a significant caseload in New York City's Family Court, and a third is ... worked as a secretary and a waitress, Moore was the first in her family to ... to Moore and her husband, Matthew Moore, a patent lawyer and partner at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  . Was this followed to a T? [annotation note= " thank you covid ... year, I lived in a double in New House. My side was colored yellow and ... under my bed. I spent at least a third of my nights sleeping on it instead

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  ?) to this apparent cruise control on the school side is a burgeoning urge ... Global Initiative, which is a very new project aiming to connect MIT ... psychological defense, I went to a piercing parlor with my good friend Juhee on a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  'm going to go home and work on a side project, but end up watching House of ... -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... really, I’ve spent the last two days working on a script for an episode on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  There's always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either ... to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another ... feeling leaves almost as quickly as it arrived. Is it possible to miss

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... starters, Lobby 7, the entrance to MIT from the road, was transformed into a ... well as a brave soul ready to be shot out of a cannon! Something I think

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with ... trucks pass. It's 9 PM on Friday, and a heat wave broke this morning

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  familiar with it. Note: I had taken these on a Sunday morning before the gym ... 't have to wait for a machine. A view from outside (it's distorted...sorry, the panoramic feature on my camera doesn't always cooperate): A dark

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  -- but I cry a little bit anyway when I mention it on the phone to my ... The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me ... the way, I ran into a friend in distress, who was also on his way to ... . She brought me to a giant black sharpie and wrote on my arm "Reminder

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

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  : "...thanks!" They went on their merry way, and I returned to a brand new hope ... AND CONTINUE* there lives a brand new hope that's calling out to you ... . You work together to put on a production. One person's gaffe is everyone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012