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• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for ... ;   As I wrote when we admitted them: These 1419 students are truly ... -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon. The other day Mike, who I may or may not know, asked... "What are you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... manage the situation? (200-250 words) People often ask me, "How do I stand ... , school, community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... Living off campus this year means that I don't head home until my last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... days are rougher than others, and more often than not I find myself ... all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  of thing I would have liked as a kid. Some reflections: My left ... precious I’ve stripped away hobbies and for-fun activities and learned what I can and cannot leave behind. I’ve realized over the past year that some

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  concept. If I didn't play sports, I hope I would be in shape-- but competing ... Hi everybody, I play ice hockey in the winter and lacrosse in the ... competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I ... indicator of whether or not you were a resident of Senior House - from what I ... MIT administratrivia still uses "House" rather than "Haus." But I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  told us, "how many times I've seen this happen." The goal is to fire six ... I skip pistol class to fly to Los Angeles (don't worry, Mike is cool ... time ("ReMOVE the magazine. RePLACE the magazine"). I can hear his voice

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in Haiti, but I'll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a ... though my feet are aching and my vocal chords nearly destroyed and I really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  (What is it with me blogging about Justin Timberlake? Seriously.) I feel like I should write something fantastically profound and meaningful about change and how I've grown and other such profound things, since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  and Senior House. Big Jimmy was a legendary figure, someone I only met briefly but who many of my friends counted as a confidant and friend. I ... to me. The first was freshman year. I had a crush on a sophomore on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  -- possible replacement chairs! I quickly did what any normal student would do ... smaller than I would like but is the same size as the current desks so it ... generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... confused you into thinking that I am. Nope, I'm just a sophomore that's going to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  , drinks fine wines, and drives fancy cars. I'm not really sure how he got ... rather than the exception. I mean, look how many extracurricular groups are ... Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  Coryat scores and how I do in different categories. It’s helping me ... I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that it looked utterly barren. (Thanks, quarantine.) So I thought of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to ... impromptu event you didn't have to register for. The dark matter lecture I found myself immersed in today definitely wasn't in my schedule, but I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  our campus for a week every fall!” This all being said, I should ... excited, in fact, that I came home after class last Friday to this lovely mural on my whiteboard. I have a confession to make: I’ve never

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  As it's been nearly a month since I posted (yeah. I've been hosed. I still am - I just got out of my 8.02 final, and I have 5.12 tomorrow.), I decided that upon my return, I'd treat you to my collection of 18.03 quotes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  I grew up in Elgin, IL and I'm a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans ... surprisingly, then, my brother and I became White Sox fans too. Of course, I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had the

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005