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• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  and sophomore year, will be moving back in next fall, and plan to keep ... fail some exams, would be staying up all night to finish p-sets I didn ... (see? Upperclassmen can be nice), the grad students you look up to, and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  around telling people I wanted to be a cancer researcher. It sounded so ... . There was only one problem. Saying I want to be a “cancer researcher” is ... knew writing would have to be involved. I never thought that a few years

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  dreams come to life day by day, we’re so hyped to be building new ... like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... lives being sleep-deprived? Absolutely. As the next three day, fly by

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... screens, so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision ... ,251 students that we will not be able to offer them admission this year. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before ... Notes Form, which will be posted in mid-January to your application portal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  something’s ended, followed by the immediate urge to check your phone an old ... homesick for a place you’ve never been to recognizing someone as being from ... it expecting someone to be somewhere and then they’re not. like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  sure to grab a quick snack. By 11:00 AM, I head to lecture for Design and ... great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and Jack Barry Field.  I got the chance to catch up with Sydney P. ‘25 and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ) inconsequential problems to not be excited by intelligence alone. extremely ... is: you should be smarter. You really should get around to reading all ... . but what if i don’t? i’ve been thinking about what it would be like to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  electives I plan to take. It needs to be approved by a specific faculty member ... International Science and Technology Initiative helps students find ways to study ... (chairs, the floor, the walls), different ways to sit or stand or walk, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  think that by the way I was feeling, I had been determined to go here ... accepted or not. But every time I get to thinking this way, EVERY single ... was something you wanted to experience. A good, hearty challenge? Being

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  real, and I found myself stopping to take pictures so much that by the ... , Cambridge, and Boston feel like not just home, but a home encouraging me to be ... ="11096"] If you click through to load this panorama in full, you'll be able

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  to Dulles International Airport (designed by Eero Saarinen, who also ... mysteries, a task Wilczek believes might be accomplished by "demanding more ... is very strange and very beautiful. We should admire it and be happy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  soul. His dedication goes far enough that he prefers to go by his stage ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him ... faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  about 15 when I read "Giant Brains, or Machines That Think," a step-by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... around 1953. These machines could analyze data very quickly and give you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  oblivious to the world around me. Both are valid options. Either way, I got ... adjective than a unit of measurement, but by unspoken rules we have to keep ... ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  or two meetings of a club and declared themselves to be members. Guess ... have a social life, you definitely have to be organized, and that ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; it must be that cars run on wind,  i don’t know any other way   ... opportunities to pursue the things I was interested in, I feel very grateful to be at MIT. If there is something you want to do, there is always some way

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at La ... AWESOME to be here, and sometimes I'm just plain confused about what to do ... wooh, way to go man!) He's still working on it, fyi. https

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  you're registered by the deadline (Monday, April 2), you'll be all set ... A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... students around 6pm Eastern time, and working our way west until around 11pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007