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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... /baseball/basketball/other projectile. Varsity sports are open only to undergraduates. The programs at ... 're interested in playing a varsity sport at MIT, you should fill out the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  might have, probably if you're Jewish, is about Hillel at MIT. Let me tell you, Hillel is very active at MIT. They wouldn't stop writing, calling, and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  major to go to graduate school in biology, but you should have at least ... . (Luckily, that's not a problem for most of us at MIT -- 80% of MIT undergrads participate in research at some point during their four years.) After you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  ). The conference was held at Washington University (where former MIT ... hosts at WashU. The conference was attended by nearly 400 US university ... abroad, as well as some international student advisors at universities and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  's one thing at the actual concert that's not at the dress rehearsal: four fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at ... Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  rinsed or used mouthwash, and no dentist ever yelled at me because we were ... couldn’t work for more than a few minutes at a time without getting ... nine months straight. back when i was at home i would go on runs every

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  questions and comments at the Early Action webcast. I've enjoyed getting to ... good hands with y'all. Before I met you, one chilly autumn night at ... would compete over who has already done more of the problems. At first, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  thousand times since I’ve arrived at MIT, but it’s never phrased exactly like ... mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... ’ve been marinating this post all semester, so it’s always sort of been at

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... morning, however, when I woke up at 9:29am for the last conference tennis ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  universe," said Merritt Boyd Meet Merritt Boyd, the smartest student at North ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... studying astrophysics at M.I.T. had to get him to explain exactly what that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  from current students. The Resonance shindig at the end was nothing short ... Resonance and the Logs, heh. I <3 acappella, especially at MIT. Score one ... ?", "Will you be at CPW?" but also other things; for instance, the organizer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  design at MIT. In fact–today’s the day of Gala 2025: April 27th! Setup begins at 8AM, and the event starts at 5PM, so come with me as we go behind ... ="alignnone" width="768"] slaying[/caption] 10AM - Over at the Media Lab, where MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  happy, and keep taking one step at a time. https://youtu.be/-3U3Sby4zko ... at nightBut no little moonbeams would give me the lightSo me not like

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... strike at a high level my life is not so different from what it was like ... punctuation at the ends of paragraphs the second half of 2023 was absolutely

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment at MIT. He has over ... the Panama Canal Zone, at the time an American enclave filled with ... become. In 2004, during my tenure as Director of Financial Aid at MIT, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  ="alignnone" width="768"] what if we gathered in vermont and stared directly at the sun ... pictures. But some of our cruft are better at words and cameras than me, so ... April 8. I don’t think I’ve ever spent so much time staring at the blue

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  one step at a time. When I started my freshman year, I simply looked up ... now in my final semester at MIT. I am preparing for graduate school ... ,000,000), but now it's here. Everything I've done up to this point has felt, at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... wednesday night, i ate dinner at gyukaku, a yakiniku restaurant in harvard square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023