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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  than yourself at any top university. What tipped the balance towards MIT ... hacking…."  Whenever I consider joining a new activity, I think of it almost ... week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  thrown at us. At the end of the day: I'm super grateful that MIT has turf ... offer. These facilities are more or less available to anyone at MIT, so I ... It’s a beautiful spring day here at MIT – the sun is peeking through

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... you don't. Recently, I'm dealing with a new kind of synthesis problem

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; I was so jealous of my friend Helen--she was working at the ed ... ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  parking lot, at the top of the mountain, a big muscular tattooed ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... -up to my first post about trying new things, and looking for adventure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can ... defined by a set of arbitrary checklists or shiny, new facilities. It’s that ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  supervisors at the Office of the Arts showed my portfolio to the director of the ... [by Leah Brunetto '12] No matter what your background or level of involvement in the arts, MIT has a lot to offer. Aside from the numerous student

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  't done showing everyone what us students were capable of just yet. A new ... , the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike ... importantly, we're all here for each other. Well, I decided that regardless of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  . Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons ... content in this blogpost is based off of notes I found when looking back at ... to check it out. My first introduction to RT was at CPW. One of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC, it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help you to better understand the ROTC programs here at MIT.   ROTC is more

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  becomes new again. A Philosophy of Software Design (56k words). I'm at the ... new world and returning to the world of old." "New world?" "This world ... ! I’m certainly going to do them again! I even did at least one of them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  Name: Amy Perez Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown: Lubbock, TX High school: Lubbock High School College: Tulane University ... and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  a sign of royalty, princesses drank water from clay vases and then ate the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... rather than reading all the entries at smashbros.com some for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  game too. One of the benefits of being at MIT is access to the MITAC. They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby ... Period) at MIT, which offers a plethora of random activities, ranging from ... an onsite visit at a local biopharmaceutical company with a group of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of ... hard I wished I hadn’t wasted so much time at the beginning of the year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  class at The Ohio State University and I am one of three females in a ... for my project at work, a new and important project that I completed ... unfair,” he says at the end of his speech, “but it’s there.” It’s time to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT ... , at least) had been out of the spotlight for a few years? Was it ... .3 FM at work; every day, they made mention of their Michael Jackson

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  -bending property of spacetime, and try to catch at least some sense of what the general idea of the lesson is. The psets take long hours of sitting at the ... class per semester for the rest of my time at MIT and still fulfill all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  = "I will add, however, that the toilet situation at Copenhell was one of ... a sea of people bouncing before the lead singer. At the end of a song ... which patterns ring true. I like this feeling of finding a new space which

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022