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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  (ECs) in these cities, and more. Getting to travel the country, to come ... . Frequently, people assume that we get a several month long summer vacation like ... ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... wanted to do lab research for the longest time, but after getting a UROP in ... course, this one. I've been a bit blocked in terms of what to write. Right

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of ... issues. It was heartwarming to see not only queer representation in such a ... for a movie to change [his] life." And I feel like, in a way, this movie

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... for internships. I got lucky and managed to quickly get a few offers for ... to reopening. In recent days, many schools who took a more optimistic

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell ... it must be continually stirred; otherwise, it starts to congeal in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine ... just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025