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• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless. it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid ... neighborhood, and the sun is starting to set, casting a golden glow over the well

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... , the professor asked the class if we knew what the hegelian dialectic was ... the relationship between masters and slaves; someone else said it was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have received questions from adMITs about whether the terms of their admissions offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... with the term, fabrication is Engineering Speak for making things. It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  You asked for it[citation needed], and so here it is. After the list of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question ... existentialist crisis at the end of sophomore year, when I realized that I hadn'

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was on one of those rare cold days, with icy sheets of rain washing the ... navigated the labyrinthine marketplace with the ease familiarity bestows on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  . *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the deliberation, all the conversations and requests for advice and frustration and ... major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  checking out the most beautiful girl in the lab (see below). ....just kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the ... five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 being the lowest... How happy are students? How stressed out do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  write some notes for the people that have made my MIT experience ... CPW. And that I made the decision to walk up to Bryan despite not having seen him since the fifth grade. And that you took the initiative in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  invention on the internet, and it's called Omegle! The theory behind it is ... our 60" HDTV and server, when we decided to tell the random stranger ... info I want to give away on the internet about this particular subject

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The traditional wedding march is from Wagner's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a "barbarian wedding." There's going to be a great entry about all the fun Mitra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions ... them. Sometimes, with the author's permission, I blog these emails, like ... are among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  . Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along with my friend Sally M. '16, I spent the next few hours CNC machining two

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map ... had warned me): the building numbers make little, or no, sense! I ended up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their field. And we have the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program doing all the magic in-between dealing with proposals, funding, and listings

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  this time, I know it's probably the last time that I'll sleep in my bed before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... experience has expanded my outlook on life and the world. But first, I think

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get to the lake shore, it’s just us and the geese under a cloudy sky. We

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025