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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  at Tangerine. Not cheap, but I'd been eating junk for a week so I ... counselors, I drove around Jersey a little bit, ending up at Chili's where I ... road that is somehow both Route 1 and Route 9 at the same time? I think

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my very first all-nighter at MIT; I made it through by drinking 12 ... another reaction. Well, I went in at 3 AM, purified my product, broke into ... miserable walk home at 5 AM. When I got back, I opened my mailbox on a whim

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  ), then you're looking at around 84 units beyond the GIRs. Add that to your ... .5 years' worth of work at a "normal" courseload. But there's a slight catch ... " courseloads is 384 units. So, that's what sort of picture you're looking at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  (pictured at right). Ever wonder if that spouse, friend or co-worker on the ... hold the answer. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... technology at a bar in Cambridge where a group of singles were "speed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until ... about dining at the Institvte. (I'll admit that I'm also writing this ... required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  (Undergraduate Association Vice-President - everything at MIT is a number ... bunch of friends at midnight, but got distracted by Dennis '08 and Bethany ... . *grin* Foley enjoyed our food. At 10, I went to an EC Rush meeting

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  first arrived at Charm School, I was greeted by an incredible jazz quintet ... suitemate at the dinnerware class (i.e. which fork to use, is my bread plate ... , Proctor & Gamble. At 45 companies in total, it's not the largest career

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... on your tracking system yet. As Quinton says, "She'll be apples." At ... questions... Pia writes, "Last summer I interned at a Neuroscience Lab. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  MIT admissions process look at this as a factor? Why? It seems to me ... , that I work at MIT, and the deadlines for our summer programs are fast ... had heard of (remember, the Internet was in its infancy at the time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  put your hand in front of it, it’d churn out a piece of paper at about a ... with some roommates on the Skyline Trail (a much larger struggle at 12 ... nagging at me as I start turning hiking into a hobby. First is a feeling of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  where students teach STEM and entrepreneurship at high schools in ... Robotics group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, although we're in different ... post. I arrived at Logan International with Anika through a shared Uber

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year ... programming, here’s a year in review of what STARS Ambassadors at MIT have been ... students bring).Our next webinar is May 14, 2025 at 7pm EDT, where we’ll be

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  , but I feel like we're connected on at least some minor spiritual level ... little things I actually had to keep but never wanted to look at ... for with really-ugly-free-t-shirts-that-I-only-wear-to-bed-and-embarrassingly-to-the-bathroom-at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  friends drop you off at your home at the end of the night, but don't get out ... romantic and angry at the world. Cherish these nights while you still have ... . Obtain an MIT ID upon landing at freshman orientation with that awkward

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  body at one time.  While I won’t be dying to zombified piglins or ... every day, regardless of how busy or exhausted I am, I make at least one chin-up attempt. Whether that means sneaking one in at the Next House gym

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... at once is a nightmare. i barely remember the weeks i spent finishing ... , but we all never had time to see it. thanks, MIT—at least all of us were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  stops I look at the words I've typed and I see my own vomit on a screen. "I can't publish this," I think, "I can't even look at it." I close the ... weird when they looked at the other bloggers and realized they were the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the ... Boston to Hynes Convention Center. The vaccine clinic at Hynes is one of ... at your ID, they send you into the first room, you sit down at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... and embrace the life I had carefully crafted at MIT. A life where I was ... head above water at MIT. Here, I was someone better than what was chasing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS rElAt

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020