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• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1000"] a seagull from Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco[/caption] I ... Ocean Beach, San Francisco[/caption] Perhaps now is the season for change ... ="1000"] proof of life (credits: Arun W. '23; Eric Z., Harvard '23

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  adults. Former Director of Admissions Matt forced me to practice driving as we visited high schools together in the suburbs of Boston, and he very ... of this,” I thought to myself as I clenched everything

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We ... . This makes me sad. I think that MIT sans work would be an amazing thing ... Wednesdays are pretty awesome. My Friday is pretty the opposite of awesome. Oh

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  ’m from North Hollywood, California, which is in the San Fernando Valley of ... to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco before heading to Madrid. I am very ... ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no ... of the work I accomplished this week! I've had a pretty chill semester

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  things I did while in California: Went to a ton of doctors appointments ... to New York City by 6:30 AM on Amtrak, immediately greeted by some of ... of snowy [annotation note="the jury is still out of whether Westchester

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... sly, I managed to both pick the restaurant (California Pizza Kitchen!) and pick the movie -- March of the Penguins. It was awesome, although I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  Engineering Fair in California Rishi S. '20, "A Novel Method of Reverse ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ’m not faking it. Everybody’s faking it. Which is just another way of ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  visibility marred the view of the lake. The weekend I went to San Juan, a ... I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  '08, my suitemate from San Antonio, TX, returned to campus today, just ... fish "Ian Brelinsky" in honor of Ian '06. I guess I have led a very ... . Sam offered to dispose of him for me. Hmm, urinal or toilet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  a bus from L.A. to San Francisco, arriving there sometime in the ... Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... -to stress-relief jam is usually Shake It Off, and after several hums of “I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  other astronomers. I'll visit friends in San Francisco, fly back to Boston ... that getting into MIT would have been "the ultimate recognition of all ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self ... photo of us being shopping-carted to our 5.111 final. [caption id

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  blog, part of that was a lie. Parenthetical note, sans the parentheses ... kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... slowly deep-fried our brains over the relentless course of 63 hours. Before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  San Francisco, and carpool with Sue, one of the interns who lives down ... one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT ... Bunker. The first night the three of us moved into our new place, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  .S. route (Florida to San Francisco). Bike and Build is the epitome of a lot ... people who you always think of by both first and last name all the time? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... scope of a semester-long language course, which means 3 hours of class every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.