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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  incredible young people to realize what they are capable of. This is a place ... . A place where sleep regularly takes a back seat to the intellectual ... certain twinkle in the eye. A certain beauty to the tilt of their head when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  dish that prompted me to buy a sous vide machine. I cook because I take ... cooking as a method to anchor myself to reality, as an attempt to rebuild ... got a perfect score on whatever exam you have to take for dental school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  love email. leading up to mit you get a handful of emails about ... to mit, you add yourself onto lists, and then you get a deluge of ... email can get sent to. so for example, a list like [email protected] can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  to pop up with surprising regularity. A lot of my newly made African ... referred to African-Americans right? And I was African. Was there a ... turn around to see a heavyset, middle-aged white man racing toward me. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  : Peter Dourmashkin is a senior Lecturer who came to MIT in 1972. After ... undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in ... said. Peter then went on to describe a story of an encounter he had with

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... mean learn to optimize. Is it worth an all nighter to turn in a pset that's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  this opportunity to talk about a few Nobel-prize-winning discoveries ... awarded to an MIT professor just a few days after I learned how quantum dots ... synonymous with “we needed a science word to make our thing sound more

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  and then move on to our personal perspectives on sorority life. A Bit ... of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... ="Big: an initiated member who is paired with you to be a guide, mentor, and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... would love to help you through admissions, but we expect a little work on ... to have at least read an entry or two, maybe explored the website a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate ... label. The end. It's actually a bit harder than that, because you have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  else to do it right that second. It took about a month for it to be ... to Blue Hills twice, once for a 5-mile, relatively-flat loop, and once ... Hampshire with friends to climb up a mountain ridge with some beautiful views

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... a halfway point: between the cold winter days to the dreadfully hot ... middle of a pandemic, I had a front row seat to see a late April

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  any niche topic you have to talk about MIT also has a lot of unique or ... solar car. everyone wants to talk to you, everyone has a passion that ... to talk to / get to know we’re analyzing a film in literature and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... effort for people you care about. Sometimes, you have to break your back a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  other stuff. so this may be a little late. im too lazy to change the rest ... to occupy myself with.  my friend Espen S. ‘27 invents a lot of games ... one box in my room which you could call a fire hazard. it’s stuffed to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Designing the 2025 East Campus Rollercoaster by Zack I. ‘27

  

  to build. This process takes the better part of the year (or a full ... coaster with a banked curve. This had never been done before due to ... addition to increasing efficiency, a multi-rider cart would allow the coaster

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 18, 2026
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... Minority Education with a seven-week summer component meant to ease the ... -- if you’re a prefrosh or prospective student, I encourage you to learn

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is ... cake withou flour. So, I had to apply to a college abroad, and MIT was my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  when you make a home with someone: you share.) — I meant to call my mom ... to. It was a blended Spotify playlist that I have with one of my ... ’ll orchestrate a situation for you to meet my dad, and then he won't be a stranger

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022