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• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  updates from us! April 3rd, 2020 Prospective students In our last update, I ... accommodating as we can under these conditions. In recent days, we have received ... welcome responses from anyone in the MIT community. If you want to fill out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  I designed as my group members snuck micro-naps in the back. The ... -staged photos suggest: I can't reveal what I was working on, but I can say ... running around New York trying to cram in as many experiences as I could

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What schools can I cross-register with?

  If you find something that you're interested in studying that isn't available at MIT, you have the option to cross-register at Harvard, Wellesley College, and MassArt.
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  's cheeks. Whip out the phone and take a photo. The moment I stepped in the ... in a...less toxic way. I'll go out to more study breaks. I'll try and ... existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  way. Saturday was the big day. However, I slept in and still hadn ... when I finally made my way through the line. 2 hours later, we were in ... barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or ... (and as you can see, I read the articles whether they’re actually ... I’d do a fun post about what’s in my bag (and on my person). The Bag

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  , I came in as an [annotation note="Mathematics and Computer Science"]18 ... very... abstract. After bouncing around for a while, I'm now a double in ... to DUSP on the later side. While I’d considered Course 11 earlier in my

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  --a storm, tornado, [annotation note="In 8th grade I was supposed to go to ... 's here where I got my first chilaquiles (my favorite food?) in Mexico and ... inside of the house, but it was definitely pretty. I always get weird in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  - but somehow, I've left out the classes I've taken as a freshman. Let me ... Calculus: I can't mention 18.02 without describing Professor Poonen, an ... weather. I also spent it sleeping, going out on weekends, seeking UROPs and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in ... Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can ... -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  whatsoever about your love life. However, I do hope someone out there can ... totally handle a long distance relationship, I’m in love. Yup, turns out I ... feel warm inside. And then I was like wait am I…in love? Yup, turns out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  questions remind me of a time when I was coming out as gay in my 30s, when I ... hand, and their scooters tossed on their sides in the driveway, and I ... instant smile off my face and sprang into action. “Boys!" I yelled out the

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  the window in the stairwell. You can look out into the little courtyard ... class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... I heard April the Californian open the shade above her bed, look out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... waving my hands around in the air. But from my point of view, I'm moving ... BeaconStreet, all of which are organizations I've volunteered for in the past before I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friends. and i only have so many hours in a weekend. and then. then there ... 'm only doing all of these things in the first place is because i care about ... die. i'm literally writing this in public trying my best not to cry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . My interaction with Prof. Silbey was in Spring 2010, when I took 20 ... serenaded a girl in the class. Now I realize my view may be a little biased, but I did a little researching and found out that I'm not the only

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a ... in the trunk and the boy would ride with our luggage. But no! Out came ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  . I can talk to her on my way to the coffee shop without losing work ... to study in the coffee shop. Because I’m walking again I decide to take ... to switch gears; I close 8.01, pull out my laptop, and start writing

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  out of the freezer and arranging them in a vest that the performer wears ... whoever was being Tim the Beaver in the picture I took during the chaotic ... smiling if he tried!). In true presidential fashion, I even got to take a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015