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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a ... walk to the department so you can get a taste of what it's like to study ... Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it’s historically played a massive role in the growth and development of this land. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied ... College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... unless we have sufficient information upon which to render a decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... we could not. As a former transfer student myself (not to MIT), I know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  yourself stuck on, say, a college essay - maybe it's time to invest in some ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... advisor, stands in front of a blank board; he is grinning, hunched over, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

   hyped for it, so I'm attaching it to the bottom of this blog post in case you're ... concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  Court still has a downward slope in the middle, which was meant to be the ... and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely ... like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of ... computer. I'll have to get Microsoft Office and Mathematica shipped to me

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... …or is it Seattle? Anyway, grab your umbrella just in case. While the ... Freshman Pre-Orientation Program, and was so excited to explore MIT for a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT ... related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an embarrassing well-what-do-we-have-here pose in front of a nonsensical slide that ... everything is going in a positive direction. :) The rest of the summer was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  , it felt great to just take all the time in the world to get out of bed ... called The Mushroom Store.” It took quite a bit of effort to get to The ... few days in the end of August where prefrosh get to explore living

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  hand, it’s four days off in a row! Imagine the possibilities! You ... , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report ... Farmer, Ira Magaziner, Jeff Sachs, and a concert by John Legend in MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of ... somewhere? And the 8 ivy leaves (haha, get it?) our beaver happens to be ... . [All photo credit in this entry goes to Jeanne '13 - thank you, Jeanne!]

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two ... recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped ... leaning against the back doorway of a warehouse in a cigarette-break tableau

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless ... as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has ... , while others simply do not." There are a lot of questions in there, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  rehearsal twice a week. Also, playing in fewer pieces means less music to ... had to audition to get in) who can actually sight read pretty well, he ... [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  'm probably going to switch majors. I wrote a two post series back in June about ... 't live in a vacuum, and it's stressful to waste energy and time on ... to go to college. In a lot of ways, the age difference isn't that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my top two choice schools!!! Needless to say, I did a happy dance. Still

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a bubble in that, as an MIT student, you start to forget what the outside ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008