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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  question! First up is Fangfei, who went to the Long Island Party: MIT has been my first choice for most of high school, but for a brief period of ... my old top choice came. I wavered for a moment. I knew at either of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  because you end up with both bachelor's and master's degrees in a shorter ... 's not just for engineers. Undergraduates in the Dept. of Urban Studies and ... to complete the requirements for both degrees at the end of five years

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  man reading the words, but then, in retrospect the prize for first place ... never really forgave myself for that day back in 1996, and it's probably a ... choices. Eventually I settled on Mechanical Engineering, and for me that

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  Mark '07 last night for some awesome sundaes. It was fun and delicious ... I've been doing for the past year and a half. I started with the ... , because he's the boss. And he pays my salary. I'm going to finish up a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  jerk. Miraculously, it didn't even bleed one drop for the rest of the day ... , having not left campus for home at all, I triumphantly completed this thing ... get to pass 6.002 for one. But you also get music. Sweet music. I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  been piling up in my inbox... Where the heck have you been?!? April 6 ... -Orientation programs for admitted students? Those are run by the Academic Resource ... topics. For the best source of information, please visit web

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  with a nice steak. Our waiter didn't ask for her ID, and I was a little ... took us all to Jillian's for some fun and food. It's a pretty rare ... ended up leaving early and was able to escape the rain. Now I haven't seen

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  home for weeks before and never felt homesick. looking back, that was ... of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for ... heart so overwhelmingly ached for another.  as fall semester progressed

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  up for the winter. If buying winter clothes poses a financial burden ... you either have a date for your visa interview soon or have already had ... different requirements for tests and vaccinations for different countries so

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  we stayed in Caetani Castle for a week. We hauled our luggage up the ... . We went up to the archeological museum for lunch and sat down at a ... me two days of begging Admir for him to promise to the doors over the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes ... notes and posting them after, leaving three (3) different files for notes for every lecture, all with different amounts of material. On top of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a ... from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as ... a pretty good job at. ...Better than Petey, who straight up looks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for ... can spend July buffing up your technical skills in calculus. You can ... why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  experimental, part-edX class called Creating Digital Learning Materials for ... in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... sped up snippets of the reversed erasing clips to match them up with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more ... : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break. On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by ... conductor. He’s very fun, energetic, and he comes up with the most

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... , you know, Ben Folds only got the thumbs up from 70% of the student ... selling serenades- for a mere 10 to 20 dollars, you could chose from a list

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  , thanks for putting up with my ludicrous dance skills. See you in the fall! ... , which I absolutely loved. I met up with my host, Brad ’08, and from the ... anticlimactically canceled, but I still went for a nice run with a couple of other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  describe my last couple minutes for you. [background] I've just woken up at 11 o'clock after going to bed at 6. I drag myself up, into the bathroom ... stay awake and died. The next thing I know I'm being woken up by my

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008