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• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  school and it is one of the best videos of all time. It is tangentially ... up to? Figuring out what kind of grad school I want to go to, whether ... to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  vision. LTI seeks to introduce the concept of leadership to high school ... One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... Relations Director of LTI (Leadership Training Institute) - which I've also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  (actually outside not in my school gym) but the spirit of it was the same ... treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... down a gravel road. So every Halloween, my “route” consisted of exactly

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in ... comfortable with the big/little dynamics in some of my social groups, enjoying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... because I've been preparing to apply to grad schools, scholarships and ... with a mug of tea contemplating how I've reached the point I'm at. If

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  season that’s on par with the winter they were stressing about in Game of Thrones and 2. somehow managing to traverse what feels like a tundra of a campus with 5000mph winds stripping away every last ounce of warmth your

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  no fault of your own, your school forms (e.g. teacher recommendations ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Hi everyone, The Office of Admissions is

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in September. I knew that this transition would be challenging. Juggling all of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  school—specifically most of TMG's projects—so being able to work inside it ... Cambridge as much as I would've liked during the school year, so that's one of ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of ... perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM ... one of them had, by the end of high school, built a rocket out of their ... Back when I was about seven I dreamed of being an astronaut. Of

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  a row, you get kicked out of the school." (me: lol) 5:13 to 5 ... because MIT is so science-focused, only a couple of schools have applicants ... So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  number among them. I spent a lot of high school trying to jump to the ... myths kid back in middle school, but I didn't know much of the actual ... through in high school, when I taught myself out of textbooks, or scrambled

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  in the Sloan School of Management who is using an algorithm to help ... of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of ... I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  spider-legged unit was found struggling in a closet at MIT's School of ... Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I attend Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (more commonly known as "CRLS" or

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... hose. -Back to story- As school starts to take off, I'm slowly settling

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post ... Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006