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• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  supervising a few new website tricks we have up our sleeves for rollout later ... began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and before that at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my ... for the Engineers Without Borders-MIT Chapter. Engineers Without Borders ... developing countries to improve their quality of life. One of our projects, for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  into the stream and let the running water charge it up for use that night ... until later (i.e. never). Ready, go. 1. I'm being published. For realz ... interesting to me. I mean, I want to spend my life designing corn shellers for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this ... did spruce it up a bit: This picture really doesn't adequately ... out great for Marty's dad in Back to the Future, my main purpose behind

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  the two: fight (by studying hard for two weeks), then flight (home for the holidays!) Many students will come back to MIT around January 7 for ... worrying about problem sets. Well, that’s not 100% true, there are some for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  students. He spoke very openly about his passion for research, love for MIT, outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  freshmen show up here every fall, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and fresh from ... ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the ... complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high ... ultimate American prize. For the chance at a full ride to the college of ... one of America's top universities -- will compete for a full scholarship

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  ’ll continue to do up until classes start. But for now, I’m somewhere between 21M ... internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be ... [annotation note="A website for MIT students to visualize semesterly class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  and also going to Boston. As I lined up for boarding, he lined up at the ... look up flights to Boston from NY for me ? Ruth Yeah I have lost all ... unbearably long time, he hung up the phone and printed out a boarding pass for

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  ’ve watched my mom answer for herself all the years I grew up. Every time she ... , not for more than a few weeks, a traveller passing through her old ... you grew up here, a hardness and a hardiness to everything that lives

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus ... ’t put up posters until I was leaving. My walls were bare for years ... football games and drum set at basketball games. I miss standing up for each

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has ... she walks into Walker Memorial, three weeks into the semester, for her

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  signed up for a couple online tutoring sites and, after a few weeks of ... for the first time ever Mailed letters to loved ones Set up a ... to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  was asleep for the first half of it. But when I woke up, the English ... leading up to my flight to London were hectic. I was graduating, so along ... over. Then, I had to pack up everything that was left in my room, and I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  up at MIT for grad school. Or you will ... the list is honestly endless ... , raspberry finger tip disease Times Are Hard for Dreamers  Tour de France mash-up ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... such useful tips as do's and don'ts for a first date. She also had plenty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  -9-9-9." Went to sleep at 9:30 every night because staying up past 10:00 was a ... spent 2 months preparing for it and was so depressed when I got 116, 4 ... dormmates come up: "Hey Chris, good morning! You're up early today

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  on them. but they're small, and it's very easy to mess things up ... 't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really easy for me to go into lab and spend all of my time there to run away

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  —I could’ve woken up for 100% of my classes! Imagine thinking for years that ... straying from the path set up by my education, but it was meant to be. I ... inertia” and actually you can wake up so easily if you have those meds. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025