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• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  Financial Aid Office at 617-253-4971. Every time I've called during business ... -related reasons. If you would like an extension, you can either email our office at admissions at mit dot edu or call us during business hours at (617) 253

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very ... career at which I would have got a 100% on this quiz, but after a very limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they’re being held taut under tension. Emotionally, I feel as if I’m caught at the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  keep up with someone who knows what they want to communicate at every ... at R, now a popular tech company, and how working there was very ... using his work. i asked him if his time at R would still have been

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... the undergraduate perspective at Next. Four days later, when all of the hullabaloo was finally over at Next House, and all the first-year students had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same ... . we're not getting paid for any of this. we just like it. at times, it ... such a large scale, sheerly because you're interested in doing so. at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  punted it down the road, and some made no changes at all. For me, it seemed ... to discuss this at instructor office hours, which would not occur until ... afternoon; I sat there at my desk, fuming, not really doing any work as my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in ... understanding. In that class, every time I looked up at that quote, I felt my ... something in STEM, solely because I liked it well enough and I was decent at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight ... Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon. Except it’s not that simple. Some days, I wake up at 8 by some messed

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  twelve friends, where I’ll stay for at least for the next 2.5 months ... , Purell, and surgical gloves. My sister pick me up at the airport. It was still so normal two weeks ago, just two sisters laughing at each other

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at MIT. I realized I've been learning wrong my entire life, or at least ... really stupid" or "Yeah, I don't understand anything at all" as crutches

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... poetry slams. There are also free talks at the Harvard Book Store that are ... summer, there were free museum hours during the Summer Solstice Festival at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... recommend you loft your bed, and loft it high. My fear of heights—at least ... at the open window to my left. I was terrified at first, but some time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... look at what he had left: Run a bridge loop Take a class at Harvard or Wellesley Go clubbing on Landsdowne Street Buy clothes at the Garment district

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ! time really flies - i'm still getting over the fact that i'm already at ... , and the brief time they shared together. I first met Steve at FLP ... still balked at the size and the fact that I had to share the space with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If ... engineering programs at almost all schools have strict graduation requirements. At the beginning of my sophomore year, however, I decided I did want to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  SOMETHING today. So I made a nice schedule: I would wake up at 9:30ish, watch ... 00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  humanities and science education at MIT." First off, here are a few things that ... about and look at science? 21. Even if you don't want to major in science ... enjoy the culture? Is MIT somewhere you can see yourself being at for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  suitcase and sell it at places like Target for $49.99 or so. Three hours and ... ever find yourself at MIT with 48 hours of absolutely nothing worth doing ... -King-or-McDonald's pit stop. The driver stops at a gas station. Passengers get out and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  are lots of other jobs out there, some of which are barely technical at ... ), I've worked at the Computing Help Desk, which is part of Information ... computer related stuff at MIT...which, as you can imagine, makes it a huge

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008