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• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  can talk to for help.” Squash student-athlete: “Being a student athlete ... never take for granted.” Favorite sport-related memory? Swimming student ... proud of us for making it to Regionals.” Squash student-athlete: “During

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  that was open past six yesterday. Luckily for me, however, there was a ... than they do for $5 in the MIT vending machines"]can,[/annotation] and ... you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ... to learn over the past two years, or as much of it as I could, not for ... small reminders for myself for the future. finding a place Clearly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... seeing shooting stars for the first time because we’d gone hundreds of ... data for my thesis right now. It’s involved multiple reinstalls of Python

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still ... -time. Exams and psets I don't have enough time to study for or complete. Classes ... , training. The skating season is year-round, no breaks, hardly any room for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said, East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... community that fits you. For this post on East Campus pros and cons, I asked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... those kids that would hide somewhere for six hours with a thick book (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... seeing and doing on campus. They didn’t even register for the weekend ... together—or as back together as we can be until she comes home for Christmas

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  major who has been a campus leader at MIT for the past 4 years. In ... . Check it out! So Andrea thanks for sitting down with me to do this ... for what I wanted to study. In my junior year I applied to the MITES

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  around, maybe 13 out of 50 for the course 8 folks. I don't have any idea of ... .Can this include,for example,honors won in oratory in the annual English ... love. F*** the rest. (Little miss sunshine?) It's very good advice for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . This ended well for both parties - with a PARTY! Pun totally intended ... . Here goes: Zaira ponders: What type of laptop should I get for college ... , Marilee was def using a Macbook for her info session so I know that Macs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  partner Cory and I have been together for almost nine years now. We met in ... High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this

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

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the ... for 5 lab sessions and write an associated paper + presentation (I did

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  everyday life after playing the game for a while. I remember I had trouble ... posters for this movie called it “The game you couldn’t put down. The story ... the news, Ceri suggested I interview Fractal for the blogs. So I did

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I ... Experiences to enjoy outside of this box. I also have some options for the way I ... for the undergrad. ii. I started writing this blog in the fall, when

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard of for MIT prefrosh to write guest blogs before CPW. Cam's situation is ... intersection of my life and MIT – which is surprisingly large for a high school

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  bags for a bustling East Coast adventure. This year, we went on a ... requested for sensitive information like my social security number. I even ... suspicious. The email was an invitation to the White House for celebrating the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post, both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  student's obligations year-round."]for a while.[/annotation] and when i was ... and emails that i've left to sit for weeks, because the longer i put it off the worse it is going to be for my mental health. it's asking for

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022