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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  STARS (Small-Town and Rural Student) Ambassadors, to give you a quick ... have included applying to college as a rural student and what to expect if you decide to go to college far from home or in a big city. The end

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end-of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a ... anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory. I sent out a few e-mails to gauge interests, then replied "yes." At a ... , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  become a better programmer: I want to reach the point where I can write ... judgments about when to factor out code, where to place a piece of logic, and ... a software engineering internship to learn software engineering? Well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer ... certain virus. There’s trying to find time to blog, trying to find time to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... decent shape, my whole family decided to visit. We had a great time. My ... . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to ... . Already, I find myself missing Boston and MIT, and I'm looking forward to the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  a different thing to different people. Don't assume you know what it ... requirement in order to have friends. It's not a requirement in order to have ... embarrass you or for you to wear around your head like a crown, grades are a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of ... . ------------------------------ Thanks to Tiffany for a great lunch and lovely tour of the eBay complex ... friend Tiffany (MIT '06) for lunch; she's interning for Accenture, a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ball. Find the gum ball using only your mouth and the first person to ... ”s Hospital Boston - Bake sale where all proceeds went to the Hospital ... donated to the Children”s Hospital Boston Friday: Powderpuff game (where

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... freestyle though, because sometimes you manage to get a line, or a verse, or a ... still has a nice ring to it. Loosely playing along, you start to knock out

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to ... Excellence in Mentoring award given to a professor who serves as an advisor

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  . A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... those same questions just a year or so ago. They are also easy to locate ... the campus itself and the best way to do that is on foot. Even just a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I ... when she was a new tour guide. The following summer when I went to talk ... that I wanted to go on a tour but didn't want the other people on the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  there, right where I left it last time I came on a dinner mob to Bartley ... , even in a bad situation where it feels like you're stuck, you can find ... . No harm done. A little after midnight I went to catch the last T home

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  paper to trifold boards. What started off as a mandatory elementary school ... . My very first science experiment was a naive effort to demonstrate the ... filled balloons with confetti to represent a nose filled with snot. I would

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... a few more of my favorite puzzles of yore. But now, I must get back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs ... non-student visitors to the blogs (including parents, MIT students &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at ... ;   I also got to visit Kazakhstan, which is a strange, beautiful ... advise you to find your local EdUSA office and look through the resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015