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• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of ... difficult. I’m sure you can guess what I’ve been doing..... (*drum roll

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty major reunion and I've been spending much of the time recently, when I ... one point during that weekend I'll be talking with my old friends about

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college career. I am almost done with school, almost ready to go out into the real world. I remember thinking about how old college students seemed all

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  summer projects at the National Institutes of Health (I’m close, but it looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting ... Bon Pain in the NIH Clinical Center (which I justify by the total

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  The first time I walked down that hallway, the world was white. Many years later, I’d learn that that hallway was actually a ‘corridor’—an infinite one, at that. Dramatically, slash if I were into telling fables, I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate ... happen. I’ll write some paper, it (hopefully) gets published in some journal, and someone I’ve never interacted with will read it, and will think

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  soul. These feelings usually sneak up on me—I never know when exactly to expect them, but when they do occur, they do feel motivated. Of course I ... moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  UPDATE -- April 16, 2011 -- Five years ago I ran the Boston Marathon ... their chests to read GO SAM! I ran it with Mitra, my best friend from ... on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  Here goes another Omnibus... sorry if I didn't get to your question ... what the name of Nance's baby is? We're very curious =D" I think I'm at ... Admissions Officers", but I haven't gotten around to everybody yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP!" but I decided that was too much. I still wanted to mention it though ... of 2025.” I’ve thought about making custom merch since freshman year

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  It's been over six years since I graduated MIT - longer than I spent ... , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... accessible in the liminal space between semesters. I remember starting every

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the food places, the aquarium, the coffee shop 5 billion times, and then I ... were always shocked I had to head back so early for what they presume is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a ... ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  This weekend, I moved into a new apartment. This academic year, I ... ."]Registration Day,[/annotation]and I’ll walk into my advisor’s office, the same advisor I’ve had for three years, for my last fall registration day meeting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  ” and “Best Shower Caddies on Amazon”. I started reading it because of some link I clicked (probably on facebook) that was a description of someone’s favorite bag, and I thought it was fascinating how wrapped inside

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  Last Friday night I came home from lab, took off my jewelry, wondered ... . Many of us have big adventures and exciting weeks, and I do too, but most ... by Nina L. ‘19, about her Friday night. Tonight Lujan and I went to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  have class. But mandatory attendance… 11:00 → I’m at Harvard. The light percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m listening to Stevie ... racial screening. Students get frustrated, angry, averse. I understand the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015