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• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  Blokhuis, the USA lead at Bebras, sent an email blast to the Computer Science ... questions, you can email Daphne: daphne [at] bebraschallenge [dot] org. Also

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  too early……… (there is no curfew in college :P),” you can be anywhere at ... semester at MIT I decided to have a very heavy load over MITs independent ... semester at MIT, and I think the problem with this type of life was that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater ... our wait list, 14 will be offered admission. At that point, our wait

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... friends at MIT, but more so that it was hard to develop strong bonds with ... . But at the end of the day, MIT students are, first and foremost, MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  . Day-of, I still had a pset due at 10pm. Delivery started at 7pm. I finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and ... at the same 8.02 table — and have continued to take classes together

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  conversations at a food court where I eat my lunch every day is incredible. We ... engineering at MIT and later a Masters in Public Health from Emory University ... they're doing.   At the Martin Trust Center, entrepreneur

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  thoroughly exhausted. When I close my eyes at night I see castles, green ... .              We started out on Beacon and at some point crossed over to Marlborough

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... jiangyou inside, spicy. We would drink it at the table, listening to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  terrible things at me, and the only way I could find myself reacting was by ... step at a time, with a lot of help and a lot of strength. And one of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... with a dean at S3 (they are wonderfully nice people. they will give you ... . Then, when you're ready to come back, you email your dean at S3 and your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... schedule kicked in. I had decided at one point that it was a brilliant idea ... please walk at a reasonable pace through the Infinite). The Bush Room was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  being in a hospital while also managing being a student at MIT:   1 ... again, or at least for a very very very long time. Also, now I'm terrified

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... triangulated the planetary and stellar positions at the same time as Person ... to discover Pluto's atmosphere as an undergrad at Harvard. Her MIT team

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  culture at MIT. So, since my entire life in recent memory (also known as the ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high ... “[redacted] PSET”. Q: How will you capitalize the word at the beginning of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  can throw a #sorrynotsorry at me.) One day a week, we meet in the ... safely look at the Sun, weather permitting. You can also hang out with MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  you're stuck in your bubble at home or at MIT. I hope everyone is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  have some coffee and chat about life with them.  :) We chose to meet at ... let's be honest, this happened Saturday morning at a more human hour (10 ... essay for a Russian class she's taking at Harvard. And I have to get to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  always has been) where I reside at MIT and where I spend most of my time of ... around 4:30pm on the Friday and stopped at Subway and Market Basket on the ... campsite for a half hour, we finally settled at the fire pit by the cabin and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  (they called her Brittany at the shelter), but I really like Arya, like in ... 'm back at MIT, and there is a new little kitten hopping about. Everything

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... filmed by (and starring) MIT students was produced at the 2011 FPOP, when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014