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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  involves taking 3-4 classes in a certain subject. For example, I plan on ... how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join ... abilities, and in the spring if you do not.  I took biology at the same time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... could see how much fun I found it, but those pictures will remain unseen ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  students in the coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what ... This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our ... students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have ... have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main ... in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  . First, I had forgotten that this REX would be the first in-person REX in ... decided, would have to be easier. I had a twelve-week internship secured for ... committee; I would only be a member of the committee, providing whatever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  unsteady smile. “I know, babe. I am relaxed. Just…I haven’t seen mom in ... . Maybe she would storm out of the room—in rare moments, he saw something of ... within her—soon, it would be everywhere, in pipes and city tanks and water

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... pika.) In honor of this especially pika week, here is every pika food picture I have ever Instagrammed. sushi last spring   something

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  less. i have never ordered a venti in my LIFE. before we reached the ... i had a magical long weekend. a fellow rising sophomore friend, her boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  's important to know how MIT helps its students once they're here. I hope you ... In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International ... Phone Branding in China European Panel: What Europe? Catalan Lessons with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  know how MIT is. You might think to yourself "oh but I know so much about ... from the bank thinking about what the computer screen would tell me I ... with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  completely by chance. Case in point: About a month ago, I was heading from my ... asked me if there was anything in particular I wanted him to take a photo ... Building 72. Although Cody and I left a little before sunset in order to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the courses offered in each department. You may receive credit for subjects of
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do ... torn. In the college home, I get adventures with friends, bright city

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  US competition in Lincoln, NE each June. I’ve worked on five of our ... in different countries. While I could wax poetic for days about all the ... -piece carbon fiber wheels made in house. I’ll take four please. TU Delft’s very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  the MIT bubble, and I didn't really think about how little I actually leave campus until I eventually realized that I barely leave my dorm, let alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  Chicago back in 1987. I'm not going to link the video here though because it ... ’s something both sad and beautiful about...everything in this, I guess. It's a ... If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life ... graduated and several times each year would come up with reasons why I needed

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008