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• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  . Alvin wrote, "I am doing my SATs in june 3,2006, how can also do SAT ... sort of review, but I'm still quite iffy on how I'll do...so would a poor ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  plan in retrospect, but in the moment, I remember how I didn’t know what ... themselves across.”  This isn’t how I imagined coming out would turn out, but ... . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four ... interesting things in the world, and I’m feeling lost and confused in the best

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  website, as well as iTunes. Kevin gave me a copy of the CD, titled Like Never Before, and I'm really loving tracks 4 (Levi Schmidt - I Don't Mind ... Hey you guys! I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Rustagi

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... exciting IAP...I didn't fully understand how much there was out there ... that I went to because it sounded exciting. :) Participated in Mystery

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened ... . I would post a picture but why should I embarrass myself like that ... Yes, it's been a while since my last entry...much has happened. I am

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic ... regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a location inside the return vehicle, and after five weeks in orbit we

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  could learn when I told them I didn't have experience in those areas. How: I ... Notion calendar to track how much I work in both Python and Fusion360 over ... helped me remember how much I liked writing—in 2024, I'm simply hoping to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  this moment about what my aspiration is in life, I would tell you ... totally positive.” When I registered for classes in the fall (last) semester ... also like reading about various political philosophies. In the past I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  In my past entry, a few students commented with the request that I ... , course 14; I was born and raised in New Jersey (no jokes, please), but I ... power crisis. My family still lives in the Bay Area, so I am racking up

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  . Or maybe drown. But it would be exciting! In fact, while I wasn ... moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing ... the Library, and pelt out tunes that would make Beethoven roll in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how ... always just me. i find myself in my room, not entirely remembering how i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have ... a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I would really do much when I joined. I figured the first few weeks would

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  night in my early years here. i treat myself like i would an old friend. i ... than get stuck in a self-destructive loop. i think younger mel would be ... community in the past few months. mostly, how i wouldn't be where i am now

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... would have made me laugh in astonishment if it did not make me cry. I was ... structure in constant, intermittently blinding dust storms. I'd look up and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  more. In hindsight, I would say I struggled to balance (or even identify ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad ... set in stone as i imagined: i’ve already switched jobs and roles, signed ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025