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• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  equal treatment for all our students. In the face of the new ban on ... banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the implementation of this order is still under review, its prospect has caused a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  planned to take any of the many game related class offered through CMS. I ... This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  Support Services at MIT, and Dr. Alan Siegel, Chief of Mental Health ... , very happy with her new toys back at my parent's house. ... SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  enjoyed the show, even though they were a bit out of their element at a 10 ...   at the end of the day, i felt a vague sense of dissatisfaction ... i had SUCH a nice President’s Day weekend. a lot of it was consumed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  MIT. Literally. At the beginning of the semester, when I finally stopped ... . Towards the end of the conversation, he glanced at his watch and gave me one ... presentation. All of them turned to look at me. The terror that Dumbledore could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  7 at 11 PM on Friday. · When I visited the headquarters of the ... been peacefully resting in the comfort of my sleeping bag back at Ashdown ... days living at MIT, taking advantage of everything I could without having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... world, take risks, try new things. I wanted to be at MIT. And so, I ... plethora of emotions that come with it. Right now, some of you are nearly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there been a program like Design Squad - a new reality design competition ... with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  department at MIT interests you and why?'" First, I should note that it has no bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  —super fun. Dalton playing with Sifteo Cubes, a new type of touch ... the happy expressions of all these people; where learning to play a new ... Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... mind staring at multiple pages of scientific jargon. My HASS is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  and his men opened up a new door, To that new frontier in outer space, As an astronaut at that NASA place." Copyright - Dj B Album - Phat Beats from the Playground, Vol. 3 MIT has a set of it's own astronauts as

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  scariness than any of them did. i've never felt quite like this before at the ... everyone is on the precipice of something new, feeling around on a dark ... feelings like usual, chronicling my one small section of this new path we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the semester I had been assigned a seat at a table in the very back of the ... frustrated, failing everything, and can't see the light at the end of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  undergrads at the moment. Whatever the case is, it's not the end of the world ... of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  at MIT, and I promise, I’ll blog about it soon. I’ve been thinking of ... fifty minutes of Multivariable Calculus. At its core, MIT is a community of people who aren’t merely brilliant and quite apt at undertaking the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  the Eastern edge of the campus) hosts a legendary Loading Dock Sale where several rooms are lined wall to wall with moderately new books at ... A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012