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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  really good time to get in touch with your EC to set up an interview. The ... application. So...consider this my gentle nudge to get in touch with your EC and ... something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior ... is that you get a masters in just 1 additional year, but right now my

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... this post a lot trying to break it down. In the end, I decided it came

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  they know how to thrive in an environment that pushes for constant ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... his passion in technology to design a new educational system that gives

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  had slept) to go back to my room in East Campus and I don't know, listen to music for a bit, think about how much work I had to do, think about how many unread emails I had in my inbox, decide to skip my HASS class

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  for serious business and once to meet with my high school classmates in Singapore (It’s amazing how we managed to meet at another city half way around ... do so that I could take advantage of my day in London. So I decided to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can ... information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We ... could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and

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

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  is, and it reminded me how grateful I am to live in a community where ... to 2 prefrosh, so I’d get at least 1. But then I got 2… I also realized ... ’s like a student holiday!” I said, “We all get to see MIT through the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... conveniently landed on my last day in Kansas and I was able to visit my old team

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... majoring in CMS and looking to get a job in the gaming industry next year ... conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which ... high school), how to balance extracurriculars, studying, and life, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• 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 ... by rocky peaks[/caption] To get to the top of the cliff, you have to ... , on the ferry to San Juan island.[/caption] I can't express how tragic

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

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to ... able to make it to whatever he had in mind, sorry! He replied "okay!" but ... to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  able to get done. Sunday is also Bread Day around here!!!! In addition ... bother to lie to myself that I'll get ahead on work; I just bask in the ... just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  you try to take them in your luggage out of the country, you can get ... likely to stay in place, with major policy changes. When I ask how my ... -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work ... consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid $50,000 to

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  planned to double in Course 20 and[annotation note="Science, Technology, and ... essentially went in a giant loop back to Course 20 :^) If you know me ... difficult considering I'm not entirely set on what I'd like to concentrate in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  people in one room without it getting too hot. My brass rat was about to ... Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in ... schools, but make sure you like ALL OF THEM. You don't want to get into a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  how to use a machine, and they also put in the underappreciated work of ... how important this space has been to me in my three years on-campus so ... knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Prakash, getting in some last-minute shopping, and preparing to leave. My ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned ... proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011