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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  , achievements, etc.) I got my SB and MEng and am currently working on my PhD. My ... , human skeletons and skeletons of human-like primates, and skulls on ... actually did pull it off, all of it. If twelve-year-old me, lying on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  're ready to move on - Again, I hate doing the "been there-done that" talk ... 's been a regular favorite on my shelf at MIT ever since. Equally, my other ... history was a real passion for me, I'll always be able to do it on the side

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It ... that make the grind of MIT bearable, and make me glad to be on campus ... function of having grown up in NYC. Although I haven't gone on a run in a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  or synthesis, basically everything featured on this blog. which is also ... to go to grad school what I focused on during undergrad how helpful ...  which cover more diverse perspectives on the last point. on majoring in physics

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , sliding into a seat in 35-225 at 10:05, right on MIT time, ready to take the ... mousenado. On Tuesday evenings, rather than braving the wind tunnel and ... Anna’s burrito, finally choking down dinner at 9 pm. I miss traveling on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend ... events, and generally makes this one of the most BAMF weekends on the East ... it is on campus. The ability to "favorite" or "bookmark" events that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  potency of “interestingly” on sentences that are actually interesting, like ... barriers, on a scale where Level 1 includes talking to Intro to Linguistics ... ” without offending anyone? I'm writing this on the Internet, so the answer is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  interested in working on an floating sculpture by Marta Pan for an exhibition ... greet. I met with Jane in her studio and immediately signed on for the project.  For the next 6 months, we worked tirelessly on the project

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I ... things into it, my mother tutting loudly as I insisted on moving my things ... moving apparatus of Next House. Jen sat down on a [annotation note

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  eyelids. 2.5 hours later, while on a plane streaming through this clear ... MIT A cappella performances on YouTube while sitting on Catherine '12's ... to support my thesis of inherent DDR-incompetence by jumping on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  roles and been active on campus. Last week, I sat down with Andrea and got ... on campus, so I really appreciate you finding time to fit me into your ... ! MITES Summer 2004: Students coming out of dinner at Vinny T’s on Boylston

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  on your mind right now, so I kinda wanna address this issue. First off ... these two excellent blogs on the subject of interviews. I read both of ... that you have heard from the admission folks, I'll give you my spin on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  (Check out what I did last summer!) I'm staying on-campus again ... general idea is that I'm working on a program that can navigate several ... , students work on problem sets or procrastinate on them. I've been mostly

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went ... run on new hardware. TRANSFORM is this beast: https ... 't 100% know what's going on with the class material sometimes, going

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus ... candidate or party, it allows us to take public positions on policies that ... administration earlier this year on behalf of our international students, defended

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so ... about on the Friday before spring break is homework. Instead, I'm going ... discussion off the blogs though, or at least my blog, for now, and focus on the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  -based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of ... on in each case? Quite often it is the case that the student with ... statistics are bolstered by our strong emphasis on understanding context

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3 different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... : giving a TED talk, speaking on a podcast, even collaborating across borders

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025