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• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... Palace. My house is called Ducksberry. And (finally getting to the point ... is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  for myself most of the time - I rarely go to the student center or LaVerde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... available, both in high school and college, to learn about things outside the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... , debate just wasn’t quite the right environment for me to perform in, but it was the perfect environment for me to train in. I think that, slowly, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  were three of us: one of us is going to grad school in the fall, and ... courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise ... Expunge the dust from every surface in your room Learn to pick locks Read

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  lack is so important. The most recent leadership initiative in Student ... the initiative to make a change in the community. The MIT Public Services Center offers students the opportunity to volunteer in its numerous

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... event. Friends, this is the Green Building, home to EAPS ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... particular airline. I don’t think the problem is the self check-in machine or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons ... teaching. Needless to say, in the classroom, they do their job well. My 18 ... , and attempt to finish all of the problems in (hopefully) one sitting

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The ... , your DNA is identical in every cell of your body. It contains all the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  is no longer the case) Gedion gets most of his parts from Mercato, the ... attends LG Technical School (as in, LG the Korean mobile phone company) in ... braided my hair)    Gedion is pretty phenomenal. In many ways, he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  studying abroad is how expensive everything seems... In fact, the annual cost ... when I had overheard him chatting to someone in the halls about the ... in the year, schoolwork overloads caused me to pull several all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  this one is the most difficult answer to get. Every student on the ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... this is the answer that all our applicants want to see when the decisions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  elections to decide who’ll direct ESP’s programs in the spring. After much ... Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... other part of me remembered how much better college is compared to high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

   PEDESTRIAN: DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE. This is by far the most important lesson in ... a separated bike lane is the only good reason to bike in the road if it is daytime or there are cars in that road, so adhere to it as much

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  first time, but much easier the second so this is your chance to do paper ... classes in the physics curriculum. I’m here to tell you why this class is ... I loved most about JLab: if I was willing to put in the extra work, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  guide and decided to (try to) build a human pyramid in the middle of Lobby ... to worry about work. This was by far the most exciting experience I ... ,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  attend the most prestigious university I’d been admitted to. I wanted to be ... together in this universe, to be the collective result of every decision made ... a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  members who must apply to their departments in order to lecture, and the ... supervision system is considered to be the highlight of the Cambridge ... . The main advantage to the supervisions is that the example sheets are

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008