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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  of my interests in technology and travel. It came time to apply to universities and I didn't have the benefit or services of a college counselor ... It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Hindi sapat ang sampung libong kilometro para kalimutan ka

  

  ibang tao; pinakita ko lang sa’yo kung sino talaga ako. Ang inakala kong ... kaluluwa mula sa loob. Kahit ilang beses kong inulit sa sarili ko na wala

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less ... ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... brainstorming, doing tons of market research, forming ideas and designing a plan

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I ... /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  been plunged untethered into the center of the universe, submerged in a ... thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language ... -baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  university shields us from the recession and a sea of red shelters our tiny ... Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the ... academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  of Virginia to our neighbor Boston University, brought contingents as ... registration expenses. This coming season, NYU and University of Delaware are ... , "Representing Massachusetts Institute of Technology... here is Kevin S." I feel

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life ... violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  institution. the university that is on the lips and minds of so many people ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post was a lot of feelings, but there's a lot of feelings still. too many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  with your choice of “Prestigious Big Name University with lots of money ... Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  apply for a master's at a university near Paris, but I needed a letter of ... , applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.   ... engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different ... probably a lot of prospective MIT students), that’s a hard pill to swallow

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  with a large group of people. After a certain degree of collective sleep ... yours, especially if you spend them in riveted perusal of my fascinating blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Wiz anyway because of its association with food murderer Sandra Lee. So ... gave me plenty of great recipes for Apple Bake, Burton-Conner's annual ... Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... learning exactly how their graphs are derived, and probably plenty of formulas. At MIT, you would get a more condensed summary of this theory, but

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there's just one more thing I just thought of yesterday: laundry. Where are the ... doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  and poetic and pretty. I'm not quite sure what any of it means or what's happening, but it's certainly an experience. I am cut off from the passion of ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... !) and pick the movie -- March of the Penguins. It was awesome, although I think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  study conducted by the University of California’s Standardized Testing ... . However, our research shows there is a degree of preparation below which a ... intended to pass universal judgment of who "deserves" or has "earned" our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022