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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  , who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to ... MIT just before the onset of World War II, and his MIT, while having the ... 20-20 hindsight of an admissions officer, I suspect that interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... to think of at the moment. When high school came around, the notion of ... of 'school-sponsored activity' - not nearly as catch-phrase-y and often

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  time of your high school career, much like being a first semester MIT ... completely lost all control of any higher brain function. I've spent the last two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  challenge. Yes, I’ve had plenty of fun in high school, but when I picked a ... none of the schools I liked. Apparently, it has worked for some (caution ... Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La ... interview. So here goes. In my senior year of high school, I was living in ... a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different ... , which is slightly scary, but also kind of odd, since with med school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  often. I also see a lot of dogs, and one time I even saw a doggie school ... ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a ... ’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7 ... 'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home. Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  .341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... far-ish away, I went to high school in a low-income area of Fort

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with ... so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision and come to MIT =) If any of you saw the Wall Street Journal today, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the School of Architecture at MIT ... the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  first day of school (you know, the ones that came with the crayon ... biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... off-kilter for the entirety of junior fall. So, this year, I proceeded to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  *written by Mariam D. '20 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... before us, their eyes squinting in the glare of the merciless sun. There’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman was standing with an elderly man, and the two of them had been trying ... ’re welcome”s and hurried out of Building 14 towards Walker Memorial, home of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  the intro over and over again in random nooks of whatever school we were ... global nonprofit organization that runs after-school STEM programs and ... Michigan), FLL typically targets elementary school students, FTC targets

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... MIT. The bipolar weather. The strange architecture. The random middle-of ... class for mechanical engineers - you learn the basics of using a mill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  from an admission's conference that had all of the most selective schools ... (The Deans of all the Ivy's and some other awesome schools you ... to one of these "top" schools. Don't get me confused, I do work at MIT

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the ... students need to take 8 Humanities Classes total, of which, 2 have to be

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024