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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  of work to be done. So, you may ask, what are we up to right now ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... Cambridge to Honolulu. Now, we're arranging our itineraries, finding rooms in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... MIT performance groups give students the opportunity to buy a serenade ... sitting in class my freshman year, listening to a (differential equations

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write ... things you'd like to know more about (or see photos of, if you're unable to visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  I got the urge to write this short story about 2 days ago. Then, I decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... , shall we? *** Teddy Purdue had much reason to be nervous. The confluence

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06... ------------------------------------- Jon wrote: "Alright, so I have to stay that I have tried to stay silent ... optional interview claims to be the part of the admissions step that can help

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... to do, and that's something that can only come with time. now, i have more things in my emotional toolbox to pull from when i'm faced with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  , Concourse, Experimental Study Group, and DesignPlus. We’re here today to talk ... time to rank my choices for first-year advising, I kept hesitating. What ... knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  choice to take one class outside my major but decided to stick to math ... look like problem sets, but we do not have to turn them in every week. instead, there are only one or two courseworks you actually have to submit

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  more typical 5.5 to the exceptional 7.5 of sophomore fall. So, once again ... of my life—the SuperUROP corresponding to 6.UAR, a year-long class ... different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... details as to why or how and what lessons I'm taking away from that, but I don't want to write yet another blog about [annotation note="though I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  , taking a class surrounded by countless other students. Similar to the ... need some time to get accustomed to a new atmosphere, but over time, I ... , I start the year planning to participate, but those plans go haywire

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never ... bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT ... enjoyed. I would have to be rigorous, I told myself, and I would be forced

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis ... house. Is it important to this story that I tell you my neighbor Ed used

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT ... work hours. But today I was finally able to attend one of the seminars I ... , but I'm really glad I went. The topic, you might be surprised, to know

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon ... 'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that was held 7:30 that night. I finished around 9:15, got back to my room ... somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever ... differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away ... them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025