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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  awesome hands-on class that gives students a taste of what it takes to ... fields to more quickly harvest their plants Clydesdale: A handtruck that ... faster and easier rescue if a boat were to capsize Herc: An automated

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during ... express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  . :) I haven't done a Q&A in a while. I'm sure that the new admittees ... that admission just means that you got your foot in the door. It's not the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  ! And out the window to the buildings across the field that glow and ... And becomes a sea of lava.   The wind howls and whispers ... , once in mirror The glassy surface of the river reflects a portal to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... ; work last IAP, I tried to UROP but applied for a random one that I didn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was ... makes MIT unique, and it's disappointing (to me, at the very least) how things were handled last summer. However, it is important to recognize that

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

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  to the public understanding of science and technology. It is also ... students to the highest standard, and the writing department is no exception ... before and after graduation that will evaporate a year down the road. So

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that's what they ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from ... time to do things that would let me relax like baking, drawing, and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  mailing lists, there is a catch in that you have to write a color at the end ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... "]busy as a bee,[/annotation]and so was my inbox. I had long feared the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  around here and if you want to get around, you need a vehicle. I guess that ... the home of my boss-to-be while he and his family are vacationing. I had ... to go wherever you want, whenever you want, even if that involves a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  up in and boarded a one-way flight to Boston. The rain was moody and ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  integrate the freshmen girls onto the floor is getting dressed up and going to ... there to support me through it, and that everything would be ok. i miss ... have bangers playing at all times, and there's so much space to dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  ! More on that soon... ...and a mini-contest! Welcome to campus, MIT MMX ... classes. The best entries will be posted on this blog. There is a ... Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  future students of the Institute. If there is anything you would like to ... , non-scripted, talking for too long videos that I used to make for the ... ! (yes it is on a different youtube channel, unfortunately I lost the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the ... saying "I have a 4.0 at MIT!" and not explaining the 5.0 scale is far ... ever want to squander that chance? There are tons of people who do so and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that ... great competition that sends many alumni to MIT and is broadly aligned ... . '12 and Danny B.D. '15 before flying to LAX that night.   Not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  down. One thing you should know for sure is that the much acclaimed weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best ... experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to-take-a ... [/annotation] to keep water and stuff flowing up to the top of the plant, but that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  , I completed two puzzles, and I'm finally feeling ready to start the next thing. The issue is, that I don't know how long this feeling is ... -ish blogs and living. I know in theory that this feeling is okay, it just is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  and the unfortunate effects it can produce. I'm going to make a ... the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023