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• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  floor, with colossal windows on two of the walls, and we also had a suite ... two rooms with a window the width of the wall and a view of campus and ... hot and dense with humidity and dust. MacGregor is like a brick oven

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  The selection process at MIT is holistic and student centered: each ... regional quotas are applied; neither is preference given to those with alumni relations. Selection is based on outstanding academic achievement as well as a
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  with a problem, and solve it yourself. We'll be here if you need us!" It ... mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the ... your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  Technologies: A Talk and Demonstration Part of the series Hip-Pop in French ... choreographer and composer, Franck II Louise is a pioneer of the French hip-hop scene. He combines music and dance in a highly original manner and the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people ... problems, we must first look and engage with the world as is. To cover our ... ? The guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse." Yet even though he didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  about that) Greek life (I’ve been in a sorority for all four years and ... 2023, a borderline mural, and official illustrations for MIT’s social ... ’m Kai. I’m a physics major (course 8) with minors in Chinese and math

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  pretty photoshoots on her Instagram and did a lot of work for rocket team ... friend, Mohamad, flew in to quarantine and stay here with us for break to ... @mitadmissions Instagram. I am also a program assistant for the Career Advising and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  again for trusting us with so much of who you are, and I wish you all the ... 2018 applicants, for sharing your experiences with us. I have shared your ... lessons from you, I have cried for you. I had a really horrible physics

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even ... 3D... https://youtu.be/so0ZgoGSqxs ...and a tractor that made me ... to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  , claiming you were invited via e-mail 3)Create a Society for Male Engineers ... one Reply All and you've got a recipe for disaster. On October 22nd ... went over like a bag of rocks with the MIT administration. Long story

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  look like in a few months. I could, and maybe sometime I will, write ... .  Tonight I saw this sunset, and I wanted to share it with you. <3 ... future a void. But maybe for this blog post we could pretend? We could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what these blogs are for, right? These are supposed to give you an inside look ... , after which I have to run to Target and go shopping for pants and for toy

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  's dad insisted on buying me a cute blue bike with a pink stripe yesterday ... to get to work today. And that included stopping at Laverde's for Froot ... cream and my feet don't hurt? Hello, this is a no-brainer. Answering some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  in the same boat with whom to share thoughts and feelings, and a ... donation site, Kintera, has a feature called 3-and-Me: the basic idea is that ... , doing arts and crafts, swimming in a lake- summer camp gives kids an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my ... 's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then ... -transforms. Lots of cool concepts, but the class has a reputation for being "grungy

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  understand the different styles, with regards to both art and writing, out ... visionaries. They come up with cool concepts for shots and simply execute on it ... Pavilion for 90 minutes to ride in a Tech Dinghy and sail on the Charles. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  wake up (I'm awake enough to concentrate and focus with a clear head) and ... , exploring the city with a friend visiting Boston for 48 hours, dinner with friends, etc. Gives me things to look forward to, in between studying and a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  with friends. i had a particular idea of what parties could look like ... " began with names and a handshake. where are you from? where do you go to ... with people was whether they'd want to live in this house, and i got a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  of sleep/studied for 8 hours and still failed!" with a "I only got 3 ... oneself with a wall of "But I did so much of this and that" does nothing. So ... down everything I knew, tried different things, and came up with what I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  've been coughing for the past three weeks and haven't looked into it even ... 're looking for a sign to drop a ball, here's your sign. It's okay to drop a ... done this to herself? I entered MIT with a job, a web-based research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019