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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the ... special. Meeting with an EC can be a lot of fun. I've heard great stories ... , musicians and everything in between. Some are teachers, teaching in schools

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  my classes. You can ask my mother - I was super mopey the day before I ... . And also, in case you missed it last time - I'm doing a Q&A video ... my guitar again and improv-sing my answers like I did in my first Q

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... . Panic. Panic. But I remembered a general lesson I learned in the past ... ’m pretty much committing a presentation sin, but if that’s the only way I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life ... Admissions Office. I had an office and my name was painted on the door but in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... fire extinguisher down the stairwell. I must have misheard that. Even in ... Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  because, though I will always love and continue to practice photography, in ... of all religions were conducted in the church, which I found inspiring ... Black women graduated from MIT in 2022. I spend a lot of my time

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as previously mentioned, a few hours before, I rushed out there in my sweats

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help ... anxiety seem to really heat up in the applicant pool. So I also try to ... 'll get there. In the meantime, I'm determined not to feel guilty if I need

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  them out, I always find them extremely valuable and interesting. So–in ... constellations of objects and events in time.” Without spoiling too much, I ... fascinated by retro tech and games (any Pico-8 fans in the chat), so I had to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  that recruiting season is so early in the semester, but at this point I ... I was interested in. I did some background research, prepared ... you can sometimes delay handing these in until you’ve spent a little

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  Weekend and in the online MIT09 chat were also housed in East Campus, and I ... flavor. After deciding to confirm my choice to live in East Campus, I ... Square in Cambridge on the Red Line; you can get to the airport by subway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  work-heavy, which can obviously be used later in life. Also the community ... breakfast. I am majoring in Course 20 (biological engineering) and could not ... . on the lacrosse team :)) I am also minoring in German and really

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... cats. I think you know where this story is going. Derp cat really likes ... East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... In our holistic application process, the interview is one aspect where ... helps if you have things in mind to talk about and can elaborate on your

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  this in a single semester. However, I can honestly say that it was the ... the product. You can see what that looks like in their demo video, where ... eyes closed for this part so I didn't really see it in action, but the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  One would think that after seven years in this office I would not be ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... , I know how frustrating that can be. (Funny story- NJ has about 5 or 6 ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008