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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  a particularly shocking corner for me. I used to walk along Memorial Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was ... things were handled last summer. However, it is important to recognize that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the ... " - just allow me to say that I feel if you are a student at MIT, you should ... finding the relevant sections yourself. To take this as a sign of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... together or something. Letter grades: not important if you are, say, a ... to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... prospective student said: Hi. Awesome post...Just thought I'd bring a typo to ... you go to MIT? What's bad about MIT? I responded, after taking a moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for the part i have yet to finish, and as a result i am usually discontent ... summer i was working at a startup whose focus was to build infrastructure

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... poke your interviewer if it’s been a couple days since you reached out to ... try to reassign you to a different interviewer (be patient as it may

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  reason to believe will yield a diverse and talented class," Hastings said ... he was "deeply honored" to be given the chance to lead the office on a ... also want to say what an outstanding admissions staff we have and what a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box ... fall visit to a college or university that you are interested in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... , since there's nothing odd about a mental reply to inanimate objects. MIT ... Stata Center, I just HAD to take a picture. I've been here for only a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  for what you're going to do with the grant money (a very important part ... to find a post-doc (two-ish year full-time research positions) which ... fellowship is an arrangement in which financial support is given to a graduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  “It’s important to remember that you are a person beyond academics. The ... yourself. It may seem counterintuitive to take a break from studying ... ] is essentially a lot more important than whatever grade I get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking ... , which is a real classic MIT experience). Here's what we got up to: I ... 't psetting all the time. On Saturday morning, I woke up early to help run a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As ... writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... ? You only have room for a couple of activities, some may have to be

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... to do. We apply what we learn in a big design project... where we make ... childhood memories... and decided to make a yo-yo based on the 1996 movie

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  had dressed in full zombie regalia as a tribute to "Army of Darkness ... Campbell is? Like, 50? And then what subset of those 50 want to get a book ... . She makes a point of ordering an large pepperoni pizza to take home with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... saying anything, they see you as a peer, view as more junior, look up to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  disclaimer, I am still a freshman and I am not claiming to know everything ^____^ I am just trying to share a little bit of what I have learned, I hope you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  important to you? Having a tried and true certified-damn-good education from ... love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  is mine. [annotation note="sometimes blogs take a long time to write ... .  But let’s go a bit further back, to that Monday, the precipice of the ... but, more importantly, I was thinking about what I was going to do once

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  wondering if there was going to be a chorus line of dancing sea otters or ... you need to do is make sure you shop at a place that accepts it (which ... /headphone company. Mr. Bose is an MIT alum and, as such, decided to be a really nice

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008