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• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  managed to find my way back to Sidney-Pacific for the night. My host Tina ... a party that night. It was pretty fun dancing on a roof with a great ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look ... buildings. It's a great thing for lost visitors in the summer and frozen ... (only about a third to a half of whom are here for the summer, mostly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  college/MIT: (Time for me to be serious) I have 3 points: 1. Put a lot of ... scores. We are looking for well-rounded students. Since we focus on so much ... the financial aid package. Fun fact about yourself: I am Airborne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  fun, I discovered hundreds of student groups, and Boston a quick swim ... turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome ... applied for work in the field of education. After considering a number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... spring, I learned what math was for computer scientists, as 6.042 brought ... for an app, I did practice technical interviews (though I didn't get any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  construction of proofs. More demanding than 18.100A, for students with more ... problem for three hours and gotten nowhere with it. There were so many ... from a few years back: Recently my boss left for another job, and I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  lately for these blog posts. So when two friends in the GEL program told ... engineering, and MIT is fantastic for that. The general ethos I got from meeting ... engineering school where people do / there's a good environment for startups

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  in July. For a period of about 2 months I was the only mechanical ... office for 3 months, and established our hardware engineering capability ... the world, Mosi Oa Tunya (Lozi for "the smoke that thunders", also known

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not really, for how quickly it was dredged up again, like the structure of a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of the FSAE car. So far for FSAE I've made minor contributions to the frame ... time goes on- so even though there's plenty of room for improvement, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  never actually tried suicide, but has willed for unconsciousness for a ... patch of 3-in-1 oil that he used for model trains, hitting his head, and for twenty years after he was never the same. He dreams of attaining the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think ... (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Last week, I dropped 9.15 from my preregistration schedule for the ... units above - isn't really the best idea. (Neither is doing 60 units ... from last term, where by some miracle I managed to get all three. For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... college-ruled!) method for anyone else who suffers from Handwriting Deficit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... 4 years at MIT, if you ever ask yourself, "Do I have time for a ... control you!", which I've been trying unsuccessfully to write for the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast ... position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY ... . Shared. That. Enthusiasm. For. Ina. Garten. It was probably the first time

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  braids for the first time. Luckily, I got my hair done by another student ... hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it.  I went to Veggie Galaxy, a vegetarian restaurant on Mass Ave, for the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their ... -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater, as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... that I got exactly what I was looking for. Amongst adjacent adventures, I ... other circumstance. Do I regret it? No, not at all. For every bridge

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an ... become easily automated by AI] is looking for jobs and skills that require ... best? Recently, I received a discount code to try an AI portrait

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023