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• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  monologue before, so that's not new. How do I move out of the comfort zone and ... dinners in the fall. Also, this is an old draft. I can now attest that ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  for a new major. I had always been interested in physics, mostly ... ).  This creativity can be expressed in any project: I’ve built my own robot ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  If you're admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT's first-year class ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... , on the ferry to San Juan island.[/caption] I can't express how tragic

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of ... ?" Slightly more. "How many can't decide?" A whole lot. If you're wondering I ... simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... about how hard they had to work, you will glance at the other MIT grad in ... happier. Replace the words “I have to” with “I get to” in your vocabulary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  happening. If senioritis has already punched me in the face in March, I can ... still chugging along in the background. Still, I'm looking at senior ... did not anticipate how much time I would be spending on career

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  else contained in so many past and future blogs*. I don’t want to talk about those journeys right now. I want to talk about the new niche I’ve found myself in amongst my MIT group of friends: Namely, I am the “dumb

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... contrast, the piano can sustain notes, and how hard you press is correlated ... playing the harpsichord; I've just seen harpsichords in museums. There are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  in high school, but I'm glad I can be here now. And you don't have to ... One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  , but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless ... and try a new, adventurous wander-around-Boston-while-studying method. I ... if I’ve ever been the first person to do <obscure thing> in <

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best ... this: Bunnies can be found on Killian Court at midnight, and in front of ... gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... coming. I hear that the interior of the new bathroom will be designed by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... ocean (or just water in general) and I have had an interesting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  had to go to that info session, I had to meet new people, I had to go on exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  hang out with new people in my department. When it comes down to it, I ... fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road ... , I’ve been exploring some of the nature in the Boston area. I went down

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  , but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the ... over at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots research group. I often ... how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  . I'm sitting in my room facing the EC courtyard, tapping my feet ... couldn't carry more in my hands, because I hadn't thought to bring some ... student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th ... , how much sleep I’ve gotten the previous night, and how nice the ink pen ... little funny in hindsight how crass some of them turned out to be (usually

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  didn’t die! I sped down Mass Ave, which can be congested enough in a car ... biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... shops and how I exist within them. I was at the moto fest with a white

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022