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• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in-state

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  simple anhedonia state; of being able to merely not feel happiness rather than actively feel awful. Kate self-medicates to reach that state, by ... the monsters in my stomach at bay. And then, finally, when I decided to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  diploma. This is really the moment I looked forward to. It was like a final ... really. I was near the beginning of the ceremony (Degrees are awarded ... call you.) so after getting my diploma I got to spend a lot of time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  pictures of Conner 2 residents (in varying states of formal attire) enjoying ... ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... semester breaks, is it really like that movie Garden State?") I was debating

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  university housing? Why do students choose to leave university ... that Harvard Medical School offers (which is a PhD program) is really ... clarify what I said about masters' degrees in the sciences not being

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  The same day the United States Government furloughed non ... (clubs). One aspect of University that is often over looked is the fact that ... hand at a few things I wish I'd started at MIT. Cambridge University

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  perspiration. I am probably not made for temperatures higher than eighty degrees ... Francisco Bay Area. At the time, it wasn't clear if these internships would be ... ), which is a weekly drawing class offered through the MIT Student Art

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  had VR capabilities! The locals also offered us a selection of home ... surprising because I’d previously only ever seen it in East Asia). “Wow!” I ... vendors offered some… rather interesting items (“all natural Amazonian

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer ... Hypotheses and Ig Nobel Prizes MIT is the site of the East Coast BAHFest ... now seven). Excerpt: All over the magnificent square, vendors offered

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  of the images themselves, offering concise, descriptive language to ... class. I live on a very interesting and active hall in East Campus, and if ... with all that Boston (and the region) has to offer, spontaneous subway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  's veggie burrito is amazing!). And of course, certain dorms (like mine, East ... previous blog entry, and I was wondering if you guys offered Martial Arts ... come in." MIT offers dozens and dozens of Physical Education courses each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  on that besides don't waste your time on a liberal arts degree and you ... graduate MIT soon with a science degree and no debt, so I guess everything ... medical school or at a university that doesn't have undergrads. However, one

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  universities, you cannot be accepted as an undergraduate if you've taken "too many" cc classes. Also, some universities transfer cc credits, others ... (though if you are enrolled in a college degree program, you would be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  stretch of blank tunnel wall on the east side of campus. Then they added ... a university–raw intelligence. MIT–intelligence and creativity, which ... about MIT is our dorm, East Campus. EC is a unique and wonderful place

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  Villain Swivel Chair – In case you use your degree from MIT to become an ... the Beaver Diploma Frame – Somebody decided to sacrifice their rational thinking to create this Tim the Beaver diploma frame. MIT Sparkly Y2K Car

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  up more people in Back Bay, but we’ll see how that goes. The people ... the [annotation note="trains run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation ... the Northeast Corridor, and the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non ... transfer students: Gaurab Previous institution: Purdue University (West ... Engineering) Krithik Previous institution: The University of Auckland

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  universities, the degree to which labs here are open to discussion and the ... , that includes inexperienced freshmen with little more to offer than ... . I visited Chinatown, Boston Common, North End, South End, Back Bay

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  lime-colored. I couldn’t decide if I loved or hated them."](550, in 5East ... room in 3East.[/annotation] This time, though, my triple-mates and I ... top speed. In Next House, floors are split into East and West wings; the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022