Search

Search Results

• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train ... melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  proof of vaccination. Appointments like these usually make my social ... out of the printer. Everything seemed too easy, so we went to the ... gathered around numerous booths set up along the walls of the library

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... me in particular. The Crescent connecting New York City and New Orleans The Palmetto/Silver Service connecting New York City and Savannah

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... keep slipping through my fingers like wisps of smoke. Every week, I feel ... ’s like I’m putting on a persona. Every word sounds fake. Or maybe I should

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  looked fake, but, my, children can be gullible. Some of those screams were ... front of you. And, of course, as you leave the security checkpoint, your ... number of friends from home, MIT comrades, and MIT alums were heading down

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  look through a rather long list of names, degrees, and job titles ... cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather ... settled into the comfort of a familiar bed (cuddling cat named Stoopy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  describe the unveiling of 2008 Brass Rat. Brass Rat? That's right, MIT has ... -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be ... played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  This past week was the first week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... the class started, it has kind of blown up due to all of the lectures

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students every ... : community colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other ... many students we can accept. Students who at the time of entry to MIT
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our ... tenth grade, I put a similar lamp and mug on the floor of a dorm room ... forgot I owned, followed by the books I had no intention of revisiting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the ... , some say in ice..." What will be the final destiny of the Universe ... expected - this was a sign that the expansion of the Universe was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  and comfort, even if you're lowkey still in your TikTok fake vine phase ...   you have a lot of drive and commitment—remind me how many ... adversity, and have a bunch of cool interests. you're social, but mostly like

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... 365 have 1-2 hours of class every week, where we learn about the Air ... , if you see people in camouflage carrying fake rifles, that's us) as

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  's just a fake model; I'm not too sure really). Of course, I had to take its ... also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided ... managed to get him hopelessly lost within like 20 minutes of my house. Also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  way the laws of the universe flow out of math equations, I love solving ... , in my very first blog post, I came up with an assortment of general ... classes that I took – those weren’t spur of the moment decisions – but I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  - University of Zambia Disacare - wheelchair center IDE - International ... So Development Lab (D-Lab), one of my classes this term, announced who is going on which trip this January. I got my first choice country

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year ... colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other non ... coursework, as well as co- and extra-curricular opportunities in your areas of
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a high school student taking college classes. Do I apply for transfer admission?

  If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many classes you have taken at the university ... finished high school and who will have completed at least one year of college
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have