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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  ’t swim there RIP) and I had this image of me lounging by the California ... consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with ... be taking alot of electives since I need them for a graduation ... that you are spending your time in meaningful ways outside of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to ... the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  some core part of myself they could still easily reach out and touch, unaltered by three years of transcontinental distance. It was my first time really hanging out with them in about three years: my family moved out of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  This year was one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Concourse?

  Concourse is a unique community of first-year students committed to ... . Concourse offers small classes in the math and science GIRs as well as small ... the meaning of human nature, the basis and character of morality, the
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  while blasting Entry of the Gladiators.  https ... the exact opportunity I was looking for. In my senior year of high ... physicist or mathematician like society was telling me, but to drop out of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  in California. We spent the rest of the day carting ourselves all over ... after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his ... unlocked one of the other Zipcars so we could steal their ice scraper instead

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  reading assignments with only a moderate degree of success at remaining dry ... my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm. This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  buckets of mail, plus all of the online application pieces. It's pretty ... MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and ... League Ice Hockey Phi Sigma Kappa 3 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries ... like any good MIT student, 10 days of that has driven me absolutely insane, so it's back to productivitiy! Time to churn out the dozens of blog

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  strategy. Offer at least two examples of international relations situations ... psychic. Not only did I successfully predict the 2021 Pantone Color of the ... morning of we went into lockdown. coincidence??"]COVID-19[/annotation], but

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... ’s a full semester’s worth of cool things, none of which are particularly applicable or useful, but there you go.  Albatross Lore For a good portion of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great ... take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  [annotation note="(realistically, one week)"]two weeks[/annotation] of the ... [annotation note="the newly renovated library located on the east side of campus ... remind one of the sheer number of unfinished pages they must write within

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of ... awesome. Ten out of ten would sit in it again. And since Hayden is so, Empty ... squirrels. With Spotify playing in both ears, The freedom of a lazy Saturday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  when other people offer them to you, like almost all of the guys I ... Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013