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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  . Across from Boston is our beloved MIT and its pincer aliens ... -containing street parallel to the water and Marlborough St. is the next one over ... before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... tower it calls home.  MIT Wifi doesn’t work in the elevators, so whenever I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but ... and I am excited to see how it intersects with my coursework at MIT, my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  It is currently 10:53 AM. I have been at work for three hours and fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an ... wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... was only beginning to take off as common slang, and MITx, which is now ... come from some exotic particle. The trick is to find a LOT of those

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a ... 've started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. Guys, I ... 's actually really funny to me to live at home since my bedroom is such a clear

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  ! Danny: I agree, but it’s so hard for me to take the easy way out. Why is ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how the musical we’re currently listening to, Ghost Quartet, starts, and it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  , the answer is inevitably “In lab.” My class schedule serves to justify ... blood sugar is regulated through a very complex control system to make sure that your body has enough juice to function.) There is also a lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  which Boston is famous. My parents have done it two or three times while I ... surviving building. Right next to the statehouse is a marker commemorating the ... statehouse, but it costs money, and Adam and I were determined to spend as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  it was just leveled to fill in the ground where my dorm is now. The ... Revolutionary War. This is why I love Boston--it's so full of history that you ... leveled most of its hills in order to fill in vast swaths of land in South

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist admissions. It is a part of ... know one way or the other. It is in your best interest to complete your ... "yield"), we admitted 1597 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  . True story. It is possible to succeed at MIT even if your high school ... maybe I'll just have to walk to LA. I'm sure it will be awesome. At any ... . s asked if it's necessary to be computer-proficient to come to MIT. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over-thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple ... way too short // didn’t regret it // caught up with old friends

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  year I also had to make a decision: theatre or ultimate? It had become ... getting an education here, it was equally important to build good habits ... self-improvement. And so, another goal for this semester is to work on

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  don’t panic. While it is important to submit your application on time ... MIT, and we'll check to see if it's been included in your application. ... days to be processed. Materials are not automatically loaded into a
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  (which is way harder than you would think it'd be???) I'm coming to the ... me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom ... think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  habit. Part of it is the timing of the night meetings; another part is ... When you have a 2.5-year-old and a 3-month-old, anything after 6AM is considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... can admit that it can be really intimidating to start. Starting from ... muscles involved, but this is where you REALLY feel it"]force of my thighs

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  the world, and also because it connects the speaker to a rich history ... really interested and wanted to keep studying it. It was so fun being ... perfectionist when it comes to language, so when my Chinese friends told me things

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  decided to take on. It seems this want to draw is shared amongst many MIT students, because this is one of the few classes that requires you to apply ... largely because it’s hard to mess up “abstract,” if not impossible. It was

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023