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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  -distance. Luckily Ami is a physicist and her hat is science-magical and they got to be ... , from the ground up to the trees and around again. The next morning it was ... the trees—a weird frozen springtime, still and empty and unalive. Here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  ).[/caption] The background is that in medieval England, every time a contract was ... now there is lunch in the sun with friends, a small dog who welcomes me ... existing this summer. And my actual self really wanted to go home for the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  royal guard. Like a freshman? Haha, no, you aren't allowed to do that ... eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I ... contemplating the prospect of having a class on Junior/Senior P/D/F. You get to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  once or twice a week Guidelines “The only dream worth having is to ... Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... month, is decidedly dead. The sky is white and my bed is very warm. So I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  be in charge of what you want to do. And that on the flip side of ... yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... you give yourself the opportunity to change your mind, and be led in a

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  my year is ... CODING. Yeahhh - What the... I’ll be first to say that ... and over on a 3D modeling program, so that’s where the coding comes in ... , a TA is hovering around Google Earth on the side trying to show us

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  . AND everything is so convenient that we walk to the next thing on my ... ! She comes out and treats me to a pastry and coffee because that's just ... to catch a glimpse of a Bell 429 that is said to be on Brigg's Field

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  .  Notably, this meaning finding a way to numerically describe the shape and ... the active site and be able to mutate it for the better. Given a desired ... that is easily accessible, large enough to sample, and well studied (as

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  're not all that grown up yet, and because this is indeed a throwback to ... rolling backpacks and headgear. It's not that my throwback to the early 90s ... . There was flounder in a white sauce that would make even the Little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... to finish my blog post drafts…) I head out of the Museum and go past ... there's a tarp saying "Openness" right behind doors that aren't open

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  was that we found out what the final for the class is: DO ANYTHING and ... Gallery in the Student Center is a gallery that holds either student curated ... . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  tell you that the Admit Letter is 10" x 13", and the defer and deny ... . We feel that the pressures to apply early are too high, and don't want to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  ; Other than that, I've been drawing a lot lately and listening to music. I ... schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and ... decision about what letters of support to send for review is left up to the ... awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  point. There’s light and beauty at the end of the hallway/tunnel--that ... Library. The reading room is an amazing place to study (and to doze off) in ... organizing the Banquet for xFair, MIT’s spring career fair and expo. A futon is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  -Wellesley partnership, there's a shuttlebus that runs directly between the two campuses ... Art"), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). Cross registration is actually surprisingly easy and a fun thing to do. My junior year, I took a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... small wins early. Instead of the whole nuclear reactor, is there a ... that cost is low, and cycle time is fast. The secret of software

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  is a super high-energy folk dance that originates from the Indian state ... a form of dance that features squats, jumps, and lively music. The ... answer I have for you guys is… the first time I heard a song I started to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  as a summer camp that one might go to for fun and learning? Does the ... issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... two reasons I wrote my last entry. The first is, to be quite truthful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is ... AppleCare!" DEPRESSION: After sending the Mac to a third-party Apple ... computing system that the computers run) than any other college, and clusters

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010