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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past ... and surgeries on them so that we can move on to the other stages of our

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears ... living up to another’s expectations. No matter the means of inspiration ... but one. You begin to doubt your once powerful feelings of belonging at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  blogger, but I have to wait for either Laura, Evan, or Jess to move out of ... ’d like to have a contest to win one of two completely useless bits of MIT ... to whoever can most accurately guess the total cost of my text books

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally ... more awesome people that spoke less of academia and were willing to

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking ... .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... -be-arriving acceptance letters to MIT, Cal and UCLA, and pursue his dream of becoming a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  . Nonetheless, I want a year of assertiveness, eagerness. It's much easier to know ... everything else the other 99% of the time. I fully feel able to do anything I ... never been to them that I can think of them this way: means of a better

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... now I've learned to say “I'm thinking 4B and 15-1” so I kind of sound

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  .12."]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I didn't know which schools to apply to in the fall, mostly because I had no frame of reference for which ... leadership experience on my resume, and I didn't want to go anywhere north of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  life-turning experiences, of coming close to death and having that moment ... walked out of the hall. And just like that, the semester had rolled to an ... to life, of exploring the roads she intends to explore. But I can tell

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  of your college choices. The deadline to complete the form is April 18 ... to a second round of waitlist admissions. All of this is a standard ... . If I'm admitted off of the waitlist, do I have to go to MIT? What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of ... happy to find out the current state of the Institvte. (They all say hi ... knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is ... weird form of torture to make kids who would rather think about equations ... different kind of learning and thinking—one that requires me to invest more of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... . As a purveyor of primarily wrapped items, they're even nice enough to ... several orders of magnitude more entertaining, not to mention more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  varied and are of different significance to different people, but when ... different aspects to mindfulness, and I got homework to be aware of my usage of those different aspects. So a part of my homework is to cuddle with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  " to be accepted to MIT, and I can tell you for sure that the majority of ... must win to get into MIT, like there is no set course of actions that ... and were accepted to, or have to go through a big complicated process of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the ... today in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our ... application is open to all MIT undergraduates of any class year. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to ... coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an ... this general case. The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  offers of such magnitude would come to someone like Logan. He did after all ... , according to the U.S Census Bureau, 42% of people his age and younger live in ... Every time I give a presentation about MIT, I always try to emphasize

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... roommates next year to take advantage of free interior decoration services

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005