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• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... underrepresented students at MIT, I think of one of our students who is an aspiring ... works at MIT in the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs trying to

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  . In celebration of my new steps toward real adulthood, and in belated ... when other people offer them to you, like almost all of the guys I ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... and management. The big drawbacks of playing a sport at MIT, for me

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  spectra that someone at the University of Tartu in Estonia measured ... at which each ball can wiggle (and thus which wavelengths of light the ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  top bunks and walk across. I'm at a bad angle here. I don't recognize everyone from the back of their heads, but the girl at the right is Ruth '08 ... nearly a month ago. We had the retreat in Cody, New Hampshire. It was very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  talked about MIT, New Jersey, cool things to do at CPW, what we enjoyed ... typing. If at any point you stop typing for more than 5 seconds, ALL of ... *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  at the process of bringing our collective baby, Richard III to the ... ) rehearses killing the young Prince of York (Anna Brunner '12). Tech Week ... as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  Julie Barr over at the Slice of MIT blog:       In the ... of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  last fall at the University of Cambridge through CME. (I'd describe ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior ... stuff I'm studying. A lot of people, even at MIT, don't really

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  any class like this offered at MIT (of couse, Harvard doesn't really ... off the bus at the end of the day and stepping back onto MIT ground ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  subconsciously conscious. I managed to carry myself out of bed at around 8:30 am ... checked off only about half of my to-do list. At some point, I escaped to ... of Lobby 7. Looking around at the long pillars and intricate ceiling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  of college, I searched for opportunities at nonprofit organizations ... mine. A week before graduation, I got a job offer at a college access ... . MIT Admissions was at the top of my list of places where I wanted to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall, everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... “new” people at either meeting"]old,[/annotation]but everything felt new

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  . * Speaking of wonderful lectures, Noam Chomsky also came to talk at MIT, about ... the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  , where I met new people who were at most one connection away, a friend of a ... circles. I was thinking of all the communities at MIT: how I’ve grown close ... My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  worth 10% of my grade, and at this point, I was still planning on taking 6 ... way, this is at all not required nor expected. I know plenty of people ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super ... vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time ... they are mundane to show you what life is on a day-to-day basis at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  ’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... live in whole new world where we are connected by...our...screens? Okay ... living before, but things are quite different though. Speaking of two weeks

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  of my blankets for them to cuddle with at night, and then they suddenly ... . ‘23 was off at a very cool math REU that, sadly, did not allow cats. [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I ... dance. He danced to a diddy called "Welcome to Six Flags New England ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006