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• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the ... the idea that parents need to lighten up. "Just as you've changed and ... students, when you made up your college list, did you apply to the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  the first pledge to PKT.... Story for another time.   The new ... I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... you respond to questions like “Did you think my mixtape was fire” with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  On sunny days, I like to wander through MIT's gorgeous campus. Below are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy ... and the Infinite Corridor: MIT's Main Entrance: Lobby 7 aka 77

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  plans had to adjust accordingly. I decided to spend roughly the first half ... .  For the first half of our trip, we decided to try "real" camping in a ... for several key connections, I was later promoted to Vice President of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  situation? A: I handled the situation really well. I managed to take the keys ... human-written; they’re all machine-generated. I’m not sure if I want to be happy or not. I'm low-key grateful for being alive. I’m sorry that I’m not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  assume this translates to their first impression of us as being part of a ... the infinite, only to get ignored. In our next lab session, he asked me ... first semester we regularly recapped entire days to each other. 5) A

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  Today was my first full day back on campus! This summer was a whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and get ready to catch the organ! [caption id="attachment_45482" align

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it, though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy ... ) Cornflake Girl (Tori Amos) If Ain't Got You (Alicia Keys) Drift and Die ... solos... I got to sit behind the sound guy! ;) And, for the grand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  . The first was breaking my nail and going to Medical for help, to which I ... was my first time going to the basement/lower level, and it was so ... pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  going to do with our lives the question becomes infinitely more difficult ... answered by just saying the first thing that comes to mind. There is time ... adjusted to life at MIT first (good advice). Nevertheless, I settled on one

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  look forward to bumping into them on the Infinite and watching them grow ... decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... people when we read their applications. We imagine them coming to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  learning each other’s names to presenting our product, the world's first ever ... going to lie, I was a bit nervous leaving that first meeting. What if the ... opportunities, we narrowed down our pool to four different ideas. First, we had to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  really do, but first I want to catch you up on what's been going on with me ... adorable. Here's him learning to use scissors for the first time at our local ... I was one of the first to go because I was too expensive. That's when

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... famous blues club in Austin. Ry is scheduled to play the first one-hour set

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... the latest tides of prefrosh, but nonetheless I do want to totally sound ... experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  the world to over 25 countries. What’s cool: So many things. First, you ... program or grant to get you there. And it’s not just study abroad: there ... ’s time to share the wealth, so I’m here to lay out for you all the tips and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  stomachs and no desire to return to IHOP for infinite pancakes anytime soon ... MIT's temporary emergency closure means I no longer have an excuse to ... idea that IAP is 'infinite time' can be so dangerous, because I ended up

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

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  cold. I have this secret dream that I will someday be the first person to ... 's resplendent pantry gives substance to my dream of becoming the world's first ... . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009