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• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  to be a technical director for the IAP show which is going to happen in ... meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible ... recommend an FPOP to anyone who is on the fence about applying to one. Not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  from September to December, while the Spring semester is from February to May. In between the two semesters, during January, is Independent ...  did manage to fit it in my schedule. I didn’t really read the description that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is ... are not, at least in one way, normal. You’re smarter than most of the ... the X number of units you need in order to graduate. The grades you get

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  .] Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you send in is ... already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round ... admissions to find out The Reason why I was deferred? If you call in, we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  With a 17% increase in applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting only 1 in 10 ... category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  . Most of this advice is paraphrased from people that I consider to be ... you to apply to MIT in the first place – wherever you go. And I believe ... justifiably preachy about things I've learned so far. So here's the most

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  shared passion for the stage. I was in bad shape, but I wouldn’t want to be ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post ... love for the arts. I NEVER thought I would go to a STEM-heavy school

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... to the roofdeck. I do my one (1) roofdeck cartwheel. I stick in my ... since the most common way to work together didn’t work well for me, I was

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  students all over the world to participate in internships, and they try and ... in French libraries, trying to get used to the French keyboard... it ... wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  ? The career fair is tomorrow, so we had to do it on Thursday. Did we all ... East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the ... Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  much fun MIT can be. Being the blogger that I am (willing to spend far ... have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is ... average. We may ask you to help advise creative projects in the office and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by the clubs I was interested in, I ultimately decided not to join any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  Let me tell you, flying home during the summer is much less painful ... 've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... known as the windiest campus IN THE WORLD!) This summer I've decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  difficult to understand why the health sector is more in demand today than say ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... . Because for the first time in our lives perhaps, there is very little

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  haven't rollerbladed since I was much closer to the ground. Speaking of ... sometimes forget to wear pants in the hallway. (But then again, who doesn ... - one at which I first began to feel like I was in the place where I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... , shall we? *** Teddy Purdue had much reason to be nervous. The confluence ... parallel to the first wall on his left, boxing him in. “What the?” he

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely wanted something to do.  MIT is no walk in the park and I wanted an ... Interphase? According to the OME's Website "Interphase is a rigorous seven

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

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  course 16, and the project, BeaverCube, is currently scheduled to launch ... Program"]UROP![/annotation] It's in the Space Systems Lab. The project is ... small satellite. The goal is to ultimately make many tiny satellites

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025