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• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... was far from the most productive weekend of the term. I tried to work

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Garel, class of 2010, and my life at MIT is not what you would expect. I ... that token, you can tell that I'm certainly not new here anymore. (In case the last three years of blogging and my recent distress over

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  the Fabcreator laser cutter at [annotation note="one of my favorite makerspaces! Consider this blog a tour of labs at MIT"]IDC[/annotation]. This ... learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  all the benfits of a major university. ... ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  applicants. After several rounds of an extremely rigorous transfer committee process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  ?"). At the end of each lecture, I felt mentally drained from the anxiety ... better. It felt like a clusterf*ck of students just hammering away at ... choices for me and, at the end of the day, that's what it truly comes down

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  a long "research paper" at the end of the semester, I have been in lab ... ). This also enables us to run trials with thousands of worms at a time ... , and take exams, but at the end of the day, my results are still taken

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  event. The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely ... especially helpful at the end of the weekend. How to get into their room ... to offer (and stuff your face with free food!). Join a fun group of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... Donuts is one of our favorite places in general: it is my and Cory ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  offers a lot of choices, and navigating those choices is much easier if you ... important, and at the end of the survey indicate that Cultural Affinity is ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  I will leave it at that. quantum is certainly one of the classes of ... . unironically, one of the most important lessons out of my time at MIT is to just ... in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  music video was released at the same time I had the beginning of my career ... least i'm not as sad as i used to be. This is the second mention of At ... at all, but it was definitely the song I was thinking of while I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... percentage of foreign students than Tech." At the time, one out of every 15 ... ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  job, not a social statement. Among my friends at MIT, announcements of ... —that is theoretically easy to learn. But at the end of the day, I’m less ... “like me” at the lower rungs of a large bank: Learn to swallow your pride

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  universe it means I am part of something much bigger than myself   ... one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will ... of days during my best of times no matter what the world moves on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  majoring in Biology, began working in the Langer Lab at MIT in November of ... integral part of my education at MIT. Currently, I study and work on a number ... Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  the blogs too!). IMAGE #3: One of my favorite things about the new ... So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we ... Probably the most popular questions asked at any information session ... quick summary of what you'll find... Freshman Applications 12,445 Freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007