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• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton ... about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  where I had no idea where I was going, but once the final review rolls ... . All I can see are challenging, wondrous things. ... hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  website where you can make a profile, search for people with complimentary ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight, though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  complex processes reduce places where information can be duplicated ... . Most of that will happen post-launch, but I think this website will be a ... _O3iwGo&feature=youtu.be As you can see, it's in some respects a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  Did you know that you can't double-major at MIT? Okay, I'm just ... , because I should be listed as a year 3 student with a second major in VII ... . Personally, I came in with a meager 27 units of credit (and didn't pass out of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  saying that Telefonica was interested in hiring me! I set up a Skype ... 're interested to know what I'm actually doing here? I'm working in the Networked ... world, where I am much more comfortable. So, my job is to design a system

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  hospitality I was shown. I don't know where I will go next. All I can do - all ... existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... Circus, where I was pulled into the center ring by an enthusiastic clown

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!! I PASSED. I can sit in 8.02 without any qualms. 8.02 Woke up cozy and ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in classes now, I need to take classes that genuinely interest me in order for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  it in a week or two. Here, I can get it delivered in two or three days ... isn’t what makes me feel like I’m not in the Philippines anymore. Because, you know, American food? Something I’ve seen in the movies. The way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  be too spread out? I'm used to a dining hall culture, where you can ... -furnished kitchens, where you can cook your own food (which is cheaper than buying it ... comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  , with the pig farm in the distant top. The area where water collects ... Nobody can. We can mobilize and make this happen! Help eradicate the most prevalent and preventable problem in developing areas around the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  Lausanne, Switzerland, where I've been living for the past 10 days. I'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I ... my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  of those weeks where I turn in the Pset half-completed. I hate doing ... . I can talk to her on my way to the coffee shop without losing work ... to study in the coffee shop. Because I’m walking again I decide to take

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  challenging. I can tell you when I came to MIT, I knew that this place was going ... where the fun starts. Imagine yourself one evening in a lounge with some ... used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

    ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was ... can have food I made meatloaf and Kristen made a fritata for ... Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the ... IAP, I walked into the MIT Hobby Shop, design in hand, and absolutely no

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  where people are talking about things I have no idea about, because I can ... setting where I have to discreetly google ‘ramen’ to get some context in the ... speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know for sure that i'll be using some of these sites in the next couple days ... bible of all the classes offered at MIT in the fall. personally, i've got

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019