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• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten ... the academic buildings and where the different labs are. I had to find ... restaurant in Boston? Cambridge? Nah, my parents wanted Maseeh Dining. I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  post. And it’s real! I’m working on a low cost, high-risk project in the same lab I’ve been in for the past year. It’s extremely unlikely to ... finals I kept having weird nightmares where our transcripts were tattooed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  the beautiful is one I can't pass on. [caption id="attachment_100807 ... next many years in the US!" "WOW GUYS you can see it with your bare eyes ... lucky to live in an area where the aurora was visible. And, we were lucky

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  idea that IAP is 'infinite time' can be so dangerous, because I ended up ... of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... quickly-edited montage of everything I filmed, including little bits in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... field. I donned my Rooney England jersey that morning, in the hope that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  segments, which are then robotically assembled in space.  For my project I ... where I'll be part of a team designing a yo-yo for mass production ... techniques. I can't wait to start.

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... summer storage, because I checked the basement (where students would

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my ... time I tried to build something (an ill-fated arch of cardboard boxes in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... the snipers: As you can no doubt tell, I was a little hyper by this ... 's trail through MIT. We eventually settled in the dining hall, where we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  let my body rest and heal. I did bring my skates with me, just in case ... familiar in a place where everything was new and different. Skating was a ... abysmal. I didn't have a car, public transportation wasn't an option in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  and expenses, and I stressed about the rest of my life. In September ... new. I did social media research and sat in on team meetings about it ... Tuesdays, where we ate (you guessed it!) Thai food, at the same restaurant in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  world around me and see things in a perspective I've never really ... I first saw the class in the course catalog during my freshman year. I ... . Last fall, I saw it would actually be offered in the spring and taught by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send ... in comparison to Tetazoo. I quickly abandoned this thought when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am ... impossible to know what the yield will be this year. Can you tell me where my ... our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  bloggers reminding us about the so-called “free” blog post, where we can ... from other majors who come and take the class. I know people in courses 2 ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  remain on the wait list. Can you tell me where I am on the wait list? No ... the exact yield will be this year. Can you tell me where my ... over our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on the waitlist? No ... exact yield will be this year. Can you tell me where my application was ... our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  -registration, you can even exhibit your work on the MIT campus! My name is Li, and I ... internal and surrounding art worlds. I am interested in the fine arts ... student life at MIT. Before coming to MIT, I had only exhibited in groups

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  I've used in my life (finally something hot enough for proper wok ... resident of Tetazoo, where dirt and grime were constant companions, I would ... year. I think a mouse died in my walls the other week. Another resident

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program where high school students can come to campus to take courses and live in the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on