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• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast and the West Coast, along the Great Lakes and down the Mighty ... /Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  -year programs. In fact, for the chemical engineering degree, instead of doing a ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi ... 'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class from the obscure whereabouts of Building 1 to the calm expanse of Killian

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  —WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements ... to catalog.mit.edu) The degree program currently consists of: 6 ... . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  about the Division of Student Life (DSL) at MIT? Essentially DSL promotes ... special programs meant to support and enhance students’ lives outside of the classroom. These include the Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Concourse?

  . Concourse offers small classes in the math and science GIRs as well as small ... the meaning of human nature, the basis and character of morality, the necessary conditions for liberty, the proper role of science, and the
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours ... For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live ... wonderfully idiosyncratic family of the admissions office, who will always be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged ... spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of ... about the realities of science. I've edited out expletives, in order to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  of the lyrics except the line 'West Virginia, Mountain Mama,' which ... be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... admire the many wonderful sights outside of Boston. And best of all, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions ... Architectural Tour of the Boston Public Library. Favorite things about Boston: I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  up working together to write down the names of as many distinct women ... an eye out on the blogs) and ate some really good pie of the meat and ... in the test tank at Sea Grant, the lab that Arcturus does most of their

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  snowstorm of the season in Boston, and an expected ice storm in DC (who ever heard of an ice storm?!?—we don’t have that kind of thing in the West ... Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... , numbers and one-upmanship equivalent of the "Not necessarily being the ... the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... what kinds of things they talk about. A week and a half to the early ... Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get ... the snow is while everyone else got sick of it three weeks ago. But can you blame me?  Just look at the results of last night's storm: ^ the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  how to get from east campus to the student center things are not as they seem

  

  stop at the end of the hallway. look to your right: a double door ... able to close. there’s a pipe jutting out of the ceiling which stops it ... stairwell. go forward until the end of the hallway. make a right turn

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 8, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about, I want to first introduce the structure of my internship: I'm part of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  west campus friends). or more recently, when i was in the throes of my ... ? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning ... with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022