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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  I can do that. So I applied to MIT and I got accepted, and then I took ... . Then it led to going across the oceans. And, then it was "OK, let's go ... . To me it, it just seems natural that we've looked around here and we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  brilliant observation. It was all a bit absurd, really. On my way to lunch ... Alright, it's been a good five days since our blogs have come online, and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough ... uncertain. recently, it has been hard to see the good in the world. recently

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... weather during CPW seems to be much nicer than the days around it. It would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... , the weather during CPW seems to be much nicer than the days around it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  short: we continue to read applications. It'll be like this for another ... After struggling to figure out what to blog about today, I decided to see what it was I wrote about one year ago today: For those of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  many people like about it is that you don't have to go far to find your ... 'stin asked, "can you talk about the residence-based advising ... semester. Then on registration day, you meet with your advisor to make any

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your ... the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we're happy to shed some light into that black hole. In fact, we outline our
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  by itself, but it becomes a lot cooler when set next to the "I forgot ... stuff. As its number may imply, it's the first Mechanical Engineering ... forces always equals zero, or else you did it wrong and life is unhappy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  the time we made it back to dorm row. But never fear! There’s some hope ... next few months to satisfy everybody from California's appetite for it ... Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.  

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing ... pushed submit. A week before the EA deadline. It felt good. But then, I ... cause me to be instantly rejected from MIT, I calmed down slightly, went

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  , Bebe Buell, was concerned with Stephen Tyler's drug use and therefore decided to raise Liv as if Todd Rundgren were her father. Since her mother ... went to Berlin for the World Cup finals! Things were appreciably crazy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  we can't go around doing things other people tell us to do for the rest ... meaning and wonder games can bring to their lives too i think i am happy ... ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  convinced that spaghetti wrestling has something to do with it -- if you are ... suggestions as to the application process? How was it when you applied? How is ... head that it must have been easier to get into MIT when I was applying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  would be postponed. and i have… mixed feelings about it. to fully explain ... burton-conner was set to be renovated. it was taken offline in summer 2020 ... its own transition team, that had lots of meetings to figure out the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  REX, whatever you want to call it) 2. See the live show of Rocky Horror ... poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of ... on it are rather boring ("Get your picture taken with Tim the Beaver

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They ... telling you not to worry, to think about other things, to just trust that it ... leaving for the day :-) They both looked kind of tired, but as you can tell

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and ... fully describe Interphase, I have to break it up into three categories

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow ... admission decision means. If you are offered admission to an institution, it ... admission to an institution, it means that you do not have the opportunity to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , especially when no one is explaining it to the guys working alongside me. But when the pattern grows more subtle, it’s harder to address. I also ... ride it and stand to the side. My insurance would take a hit if I crashed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022