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• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  more than a job, and we do not expect you to be perfect, we expect you to ... remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... much from last year, but we did make a few minor tweaks:  We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  crying selfies because obviously that's what you have to do after a good ... .02 lecture outside, so we grabbed a blanket from the pod lounge and headed over ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  arrangement - we do this because, although we are a south-asian-themed group, we ... for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... as a former Burton Conner resident, i had a two options in dealing ... more convenient in pretty much every way, i prioritize having a "campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  doing a few dishes we went to sleep in the staff room: a room just wide ... what you're doing. Sometimes, even if a song was strictly speaking *not ... 77 Mass Ave, wearing baggy sweatpants and a baggy long-sleeved shirt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  -feel-like-we’d-rather-be-doing-more-artsy-things”) was a big reason we ... Course 4, all you need to do is find a supervisor for your study, and then ... This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  decision”) on your screen. So you wait a bit longer. That’s all you can do ... star with “great things ahead of you?” And what right do I - a girl who ... not been surrounded with a network of anxious friends. Yet, I do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  with your host. Do you need a sleeping surface? A pillow? A blanket? Is ... other students are up to, the Closing is a lot of fun. And both events do ... matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... felt like the dunce. I got rejected from a club or two or three, sometimes more than once. I felt like a quitter when I left things I loved to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  , and Joonho should be doing that in a few days (he got a press pass for ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... creativity, product design, working within a budget, and gain unifying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places ... the treacherous requirements each semester spits at you, but there's a ... immature, petty and enjoy a good sexual innuendo or two. as i share these

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies ... into a snowbank while taking pictures under the yellow cast of the street

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  ? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts, but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share ... this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped ... cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret ... leaning against the back doorway of a warehouse in a cigarette-break tableau

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  this summer: "Devin (another Spectrum '07) and I have been reading A LOT about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open ... school sophomores around, I'm writing a blog post. All right, so that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... doing something with Courses 18 - Mathematics or 7 - Biology. Melis and I ... ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it ... . In other words, if we feel that a mid-year report is needed to make a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  Now that CPW is over, things are a little less hectic around the ... from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments ... ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  's photos Rob's photos Ash's photos Eric's photos CPW is a crazy time for us ... 'd imagine -- and sometimes, that picture in your head is a bit off -- like ... -awesome)! It's also a time to see some folks we haven't seen in a while. It was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005