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  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  of things like "can eat five plates of food at dinner",* "can make ... free shirts. Just look at my haul: And, of course, I also did ... If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  last rule helps break out of that stress. Every weekend, I take at least ... my life. My family wasn’t at all “sportsy or outdoorsy”. But on a whim ... . Two weeks later, I was at my first ever ultimate frisbee tournament. I

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport ... things. Yida and I moved out together at the beginning of the summer and ... classes. A lot of people are already moved in at this point, but I always

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  . Strained arms with sacks of cheap fruit from the Haymarket. Stared plenty at ... . Then I shall commence the sequel. Of new dreams in a new home. Coming ... week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... things: all that training at the beginning of the summer to be an analyst ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  Approximately 10 percent of MIT's senior class enter medical and other health profession schools each year. MIT doesn't offer a premed or prehealth major; rather, students can pursue a variety of majors and take
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  (universities, etc) -- some have a particular amount of time allotted to X ... observing semester the telescope will look at your object(s) for the length of ... meant, but it sounded like a polite way of saying "nope." At the AAS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  active members. MIT QSN is a relatively new group on campus; some of the ... again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea ... everything that I do, much of which I could almost only do at MIT. A little

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  friends at this school. one of the most uncertain things about freshman year ... out of bed before noon. this february i’m up at 8 am every day of the ... a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater ... our wait list, 14 will be offered admission. At that point, our wait ... The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years. To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and each one passes a little faster. I'm currently a Junior Fellow at the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  perks up with just the slightest amount of folding at the end: [video ... though (after witnessing the sad drooping of my slice) and offered to trade ... ! Possibly one of the best slices of pizza I've eaten while at MIT. Unlike

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  senior editor of MIT News at MIT Technology Review, respectively). We ... went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a SHASS UROP at MIT, read on below! Phase 1: Being a Marvel Fan & an MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  't recall the names of these people except the guy right next to me (he's at ... them are now at MIT! (there are 7 here now, out of the entire program ... and being surprised at the amount of technical knowledge I acquired

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... commitments are taking shape. My new room has thin yellow curtains and at least ... carrying the weight of this school. — In the week I've been back at MIT, I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  whatever we wanted. I stared at the blank piece of bristol paper and thought ... at MIT. These classes aren't for credit and if you're an undergraduate ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... of scope offered by our humanities courses, which is sort of the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... Enjoy a sunny Sunday afternoon at the home of an MIT Alum in Phoenix. Tuesday Enjoy one of two meetings held in the greater DC Metro Area at the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... paradoxes at the intersection of math, music, and art, and their implications ... Summer 2015, I’ll think about the snapping turtle at Walden, the peak of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT. I arrived at MIT bushy tailed and bright eyed at the prospect of ... Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small ... would encourage all of you to have at least one UROP over the course of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005