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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  interesting way of looking biology, and next semester I will be taking the lab ... . Basically, the end goal for a lot of people in biology is to become a PI ... University. PI’s are the main decision makers for a lab and sit at highest

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most prominently for you, oh reader of this post, MIT EA decisions (which come out ... here! sometimes you just need a break from the stress, a place where you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was ... . You got the $40 yearly Blue Bike deal for students, and now every time ... you both cram onto the scooter and hang on for dear life). You either

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  their course. Almost everyone will live at their college for the duration ... you spend the year at. This is not a very good deal for MIT students ... the case for people in other majors. The system of study is very

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a ... in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into ... hackmit team"] for the entire spring semester. [/annotation] Anyway, spring

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And ... . I did some actual psetting for a while, then checked the time. 7:30 pm ... school (hooray for being a clueless little freshman released from the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  basement for a party and you go to lean against the walls and the walls are ... UNTIL TWO DAYS AGO where he remembered the name of it by looking back in ... yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  see the magic of this place going away for me. This is the place I ... MIT's campus can be pretty daunting for someone first visiting. All the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  explored. This is a gift I cannot thank the Chinese department enough for ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  crossing the river, and you look up to see the dome glowing at you, staring ... will always be more. Basically, you start to see this: For me, the ... 's hard for me to believe, too.) It has actually been finding the balance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  require.” For ease of transportation, Bed, Bath & Beyond will pack the essentials for you the student to pick up at the store through Pack & Hold. They also host special events during the summer with 20% discounts for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... London. I don't really want The Internet to know my address, so for the ... broke the ice. We both felt very silly for meeting in Canary Wharf. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some ... these reunions to be weird - and for the most part, they aren't; every

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we ... scoured Activities Midway for art-related clubs, and we went to the CMS and ... break and spring break, we do personal art for the first time in months of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  can’t hear very well, for some reason, and I feel like the physical ... freshman spring, for all of the wrong reasons. Admittedly, I enjoyed this ... ="Computer Science"]6-3[/annotation] perhaps isn’t the place for me. I’ve decided to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... miscellaneous animal facts to tell guests. For example, did you know the lion ... definitely enjoyable for me, the real end goal is following my sixteen

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  Component -- What is something you do purely for the fun of it?: They look for ... , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students here so it looks like we get to skip the Intl admissions part of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  to be good at the things MIT students admired each other for. I looked ... , for example, is Maia: the oldest sailing sister. She gave birth to ... housing process like for your dormitory?" or "what is the difference between

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I ... Economics. The (imaginary) MITese – English dictionary has entries for ... look at. Anyway… as if the fact that the majors, buildings, AND classes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  for two reasons. First, they miss the point. MIT looks at more than just ... the amusement park next door for free, get to stay outside all day and ... there who really, really wish they knew how to do the things you take for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005