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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of ... (everyone's got to do them but at the same time, you're all thinking "pass

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  obligated to fill up the form—it’s okay if all you’re sending us is semester ... ’re sitting there confused, about to call the Admissions office, don’t worry ... free to contact the office. I already graduated high school or I’m not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose ... from the horrible bleeding, only to get an infection that would last the ... that a lot of our friends recommended. It was freezing. We got on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to ... students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... in the Cambridge community. Learn what it means to install public

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  students better understand the really-hard-to ... bad ideas." The idea is to solicit student-made web interactives ... want these to be your ideas, not mine, but to give you the kind of thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  on the green line at Fenway but am I supposed to? What's the best ... am discovering who I am and building the person I want to be. I am learning the opportunities and obstacles attached to autonomy. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the ... week, on average (the first month we read one book per week, circa 200

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as ... to tell. In fact, I'm embarassed just thinking about it. The thing is ... there was no way that was going to happen. The suggestion about dressing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... called functional MRI, which enables us to watch small parts of the human

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  . I want to see it work the way it's supposed to, so, if you're an ... views for granted. I had to learn about both sides, understand the ... opposed to "passively", is the key word there. I had to build my own beliefs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  was the best April Fool's Day prank you've pulled? Love to hear in the ... , after working on a serious blog post for a few hours, I realized what day ... post I could come up with. Credit where credit's due, the idea for this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  're here. When you stroll down the Infinite on your way to class with a ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the ... cardstock that entitle me to a non-reserved seat on what I can best describe ... , I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  were on hand for the event. You can click here to view the entire list of MIT student activities, courtesy the Association of Student ... Friday was the annual Activities Midway, a hugely popular Orientation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Tuesday, I took my computer to Information Services and Technology (the on ... 'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have ... to be my advisor.) The first half of the class meets with a Chemistry

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  other to lean on. (the Undergraduate Aero/Astro Lounge) Many people ... designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  exaggerated position, just to start. Regarding the myth that, as soon as some ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the ... classes taken? And the 6.02 x 10^23 papers that had to have been published

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  visit the computer science office to discuss my prospects of double ... back to my living group. It's the end of my last first day of undergrad ... Day one, again. Campus is different than before. The doors don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  're definitely going to get an entry on it in the near future. 9. I mentioned the ... serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines ... , faithful readers. Actually, I think the task is to "have a letter to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005