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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  situtation is pretty unique; since I live very close to the NIH, working here ... stay in Boston over the summer: -The UROP summer 2006 stipend is $4 ... ,700-$2,100 for a single. -Boston is reallllly nice in the summer! The winter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found ... , and place students in over 25 countries all over the world. Most ... for the trust and confidence MIT puts in our abilities to affect change

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending ... to MIT than its rigor. MIT, yes, is one of the most difficult schools ... stupid or unqualified, I was able to find support in my peers and in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is ... in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do ... prevent oneself from doing something—like, you wanting to do it is all the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... , I don't want to lose that motivation that got me there in the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... the professors who cared about you enough to tell you they believe in ... ’re in for some of the most memorable four years of your life. But don’t be

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... Education (INIE) program. Getting to work in MIT-NRL is an amazing opportunity and Jugal says that his most memorable experience was "going to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  responsibilities, would I have the self-discipline to still put in the work? I hope ... read the textbook. I went running. I forced myself to take a seat in the ... Achilles and Patroclus, I think, from the Iliad. I wanted in that moment to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  distance. In that case, the path to infinity is simply now. What do you see ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a finite time horizon. Infinite games where the goal is to keep

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  really fit in at MIT? I attended CPW hoping to find the answer to this ... tell me it's going to be okay. In an email sent out to the current MIT ... those of you in the process of applying to MIT: come to campus, meet the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies are still in the mail, but we're excited about the Class so far! I ... , now is a good time to be in touch, whether by email, phone, or whatever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... is to talk about what the students did for fun. And to start, I'd like ... is “a pioneer in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a ... strange nostalgia for the future. It is impossible to explain. ... shower, got an early lunch, and took the 11am bus to wellesley. i caught up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank ... 's fair to call it peer pressure. People get interested in the same things

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to ... exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw ... Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  concerts and i’ve become a much better vocalist in the process, but… i ... weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... took it easy with the rats. In essence, we're training them to run ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major. The truth is that I never REALLY knew what I wanted to major in. I knew ... idea in his head that I'm going to take the Physics II test (based on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk ... anyone in my life for granted. Similarly, my brain is swimming in all the ... other. In Spain, my life got the chance to intersect with people I never

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  force me to have a much deeper understanding of the material. Yes, you ... jealous when it's 2 in the morning and my pset is due the next day, but ... [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012