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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  pots, ahem). MacGregor is also in talks to get a dining hall put in ... As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... excellent when you just don't want to go outside in the winter, but you also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  statement is correct in that once you've proven yourself to be academically qualified it is "purely match" that gets you in - but keep in mind that the ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  learned how to collect oral histories (read: interviews), access the MIT ... out directly to alumni to gain an understanding of East Campus in days ... other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  literally freezing. I took the T to Kendall, and after exiting the station, I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the ... began promoting Adam to me in the most unsubtle way possible, and being a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  involved in applicants and prefrosh that it's hard not to get excited ... 's completely impossible. Some people we just didn't get to in time (and it was ... the problem was and then verbalize how to treat it appropriately. Is it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... destroyed in a game of Stratego. (I should take this opportunity to note that ... . =) Played in an Assasssins' Guild game, where I ended up trying to conquer the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  celebrated July 4th in the most American way we knew how - going to the beach ... , getting stuck in the elevator due to aforementioned obesity, plummeting to ... Graduate - spend a summer in Boston. I don't think you'll ever really get to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  leaving MIT to get her PhD. She was one of about 7 people in the world to be ... (in the movies the mentor usually gets killed instead of leaving to get ... pleasure getting to know each of you this year. You are amazing, talented

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to get in line to get in line again. but it wasn't all that long ago that ... , you all came to mean more than i can say. i graduated in summer 2013

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  . Recently, I tried to tap back into how I felt when I was in her shoes. For ... pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss ... sentimental; inspired by my dad, I’ve set off to intern in Germany for the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... without needing to wash it- I can get ice cream from the Baskin Robbins

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... shopping on Newbury Street See a Red Sox game in Fenway Go to Faneuil Hall Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  quite timid in getting to know them. But my experience with UROPs and Tw ... gets work done in an effort to further our mission. The TwT experience ... really believed in the mission and it seemed like a good way to get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... absolutely exhausted one evening, getting to bed early for the first time in ... , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  the fact that it was going to get erased eventually. Really shows how ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  get to glimpse my innermost(ish) thoughts. And by you, I mean the entire ... decided to go to MIT. In some ways, I am still surprised I got in to MIT ... and motivating you to "do well," your success in college will

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... has been on a campaign this winter to get me to learn how to ski, even ... very good". Certainly you don't have to be an IMO medalist to get in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  like I'm in the midst of an apocalypse, as opposed to how chill leaving ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  figure out how to put everything together myself, after having relied on ... ’d essentially been in the same room from 8am to 8pm for setup, rehearsal ... have no idea what to do with my interest in music now that i’m no longer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023