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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  importance. I also had a slew of random adventures. I fell into a gutter one ... my stomach folded into thin layers after most of my high school friends ... , the view of a majestic dome that sprawled into the sky, the hug from an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  importantly, you’ll find a little community of students with similar backgrounds ... ?, I never once delude myself into thinking it will be easy: some of the ... : everyone at MIT calls me the King of Boston. And by “everyone” I of course

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  have of students – and more important, by clarifying what we do not ... important the direction of decision-making is for students. A student should ... Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We ... Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H ... first 6 letters of the alphabet, we made sure that REX this year at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  outside of the omg-finals-are-coming campus bubble. We walked into the ... few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  /college counselor. Often, their years of experience provide wisdom and insight into ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... schools. You should still put the same energy and thought you put into your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  something of yourself. And you'll go there, and you'll always run into that ... there. Go for it. * One of my friends once converted Seasons of Love into ... ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  are unfortunately not placed on the same tier of importance, even though ... naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  people say is important. All of these skills are crucial when wooing the ... hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when ... went to the career fair for all of the free swag, and free swag was what

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  upon a small number of important works, which are studied in depth ... -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... snuggled back into bed for another hour or so. Turns out that I was having a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning ... far into the future, to what happens after you show up at the school of ... from a lot of new questions). I arrived at a few important points. 1. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Our housemasters of several years, Prof. Julian Wheatley and his wife Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year ... housemaster will be chosen by a committee, which is comprised of other

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  -empty red-walled room with two windows, where most of my important possessions ... 'll still lurk and read the blogs, because they were an important part of my ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color ... painful reminder, but an important part of my story. - Scul: I was at sevlev ... myself into engineering out of a vague misguided desire for job security

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  . Some of the most important mentors I've had at MIT have never been ... for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... currently is. Sic transit gloria mundi. Running into people you haven

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  into MIT, just like I didn’t take any of the classes I took in high ... , the short of all that is that I knew what I was getting into by applying ... confusing. That’s something of paramount importance at MIT, where new and

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  day of class. I know! It was terribly embarrassing. But I'm not an EECS major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of those buildings on the north end of campus. Of course, I played it off

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  's worth of work into today and tomorrow because I'm going to SXSW on ... MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units ... . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  dishwasher instead of handwashing. All of these are super duper important ... the house into rooms and assign each person to the part of the house ... I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  very important, branches of MIT's Office of Admissions. This is Copy ... MIT. The front steps of MIT, leading into the lobby of Building 7 ... amazing snack. You next realize that it's well into the small hours, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005