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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  also part of our plan to create some promotional videos of our own to ... engineering MIT? We want more of that super cool movable wall and we want to see more robots in the Media Lab." And to that I say, of course, that’s MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... , i didn't spend much time considering it. i didn't want to live in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  So much has happened since my last entry, it seems impossible to ... and come to MIT =) If any of you saw the Wall Street Journal today, the ... analyze how people respond to rising uncertainty- creating a stir on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  're interested in buying a bunch of MIT gear and you don't have access to campus ... was pronounced Co-op (rhymes with low hop). I got to MIT and all of a ... made so much sense! MIT and Harvard work together for their bookstore

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  had so much fun getting to know DC,  going to Old Town Alexandria, and ... ?) I felt like I grew so much with these kids, and I got to know awesome ... ; There was all kinds of beauty on that trip. I learned so much, and once

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... , Ukraine, and moved to Central Ohio during my freshman year of high school. I ... the MIT Museum specifically to buy nerdy earrings (I recently pierced

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to ... International - like spreading LTI to Mexico), and one of the reasons I joined is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I ... pretty much anything I set my mind to if I showed the necessary passion ... the event, particularly once the sun went down and that crystalline

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  compensate for my sad brunch, some friends and I went to Punto Rojo – a small ... Simmons. I don't have much to say about this place. It's just regular brunch ... took the first bite and didn't transcend to a higher flavor dimension

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  much fear of judgment or failure. I still have stories to tell and ... felt that I had stories to tell and no means with which to tell them ... find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler ... precision – I wanted to shred all those stupid engineering drawings and go

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  much you need to spend before you sell anything on your truck: between $65,000 and $200,000. 4. Mei Mei Food Truck buys a 250 lb pig every 2 ... expected to have 56 food trucks out and about this spring, I really hope to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  glance at the material once, then place it all by the curb to be recycled ... much a school costs. You are in the process of determining where to apply ... plan to attend. Know when the information sessions and campus tours are

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  field, and not just lots of breadth.) 3) It's time to explore my major in ... and pushes you to come to the answers yourself; I walked out on Monday ... time (I was thrilled to find out that he and I were in the same section

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  House to join President Obama talk about clean energy research (video below). Now, he's returning the favor and coming to visit us this ... and October each year, we travel across the country to give

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  blissful weeks i had to myself once classes ended and finals began. with zero ... ! once my quarantine ended and i tested negative, i headed to Boston for my ... would be too distracting, and any quieter spaces would only serve to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  flavor so much. And I thought, somehow, I need to tell everyone I’ve ever ... , i only knew how to make scrambled eggs and boil pasta"]how to cook for ... kitchen stuff. Some of them have been gifted to me, others I purchased, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely ... bit removed from MIT and having some time to sit back and just think, I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... negative decision does not negate your abilities, accomplishments, and dreams ... this year, there were a few who really got to me, and when they didn'

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016