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• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... portal gets updated for new information (if it haven't already!). Eventually, the portal will include all kinds of cool things like CPW

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  reason and science also marked the creation of social Darwinism and new ... size of a printer, except that unlike my printer at home, they do what ... opened my backpack, pursing my lips at the sound of the zipper. A friend I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  support me, lots of new friends, and BC's reopening to look forward to, i ... if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  residents of Floor Pi. At one point, we were large enough that a team called ... screen, so you can look at the list of puzzles and view how far people are ... . Reading the text in the beginning of the puzzle hints at putting together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  to have spent a semester looking at the world through the lens of ... , to chat with Prof. Jonathan Gruber, whose experiences spanned a PhD at ... , ultimately bringing him back to a professorship at his undergraduate alma

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  arrival) Backpack At least 2 two-liter water bottles full of water One ... One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... with large groups of people. Examples that I’ve thus far experienced have

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and ... going to learn anything at all? And that scared the crap out of me – the ... those of you who don’t see your interests aligning with engineering at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life. There were moments of frustration and exhaustion, but also a whole lot of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try ... , approved my classes, and (essentially) said Give it your best. At the end of that semester, I went back to him with grades I was proud of, and a new

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  campus.  But I still found myself overwhelmed a lot of times. If I didn ... community stay healthy, and even though I feel overwhelmed at times, I really love working with this group of people. LOOK HOW PRETTY WE ARE! I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  grasp, but a part of being a student at MIT. Being a freshman, my initial ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  six hours per week (three practices of two hours each), plus cheering at ... classes out of the 8 must be "communication intensive", or CI-H, and at ... you choose to throw at yourself. It's just six units of free credit and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior ... month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a ... of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi ... : Dream of the Red Chamber (at Harvard). Dream of the Red Chamber, or 红楼梦 ... I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... called my parents, who are looking at houses. lots of moving parts ... years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  , MacGregor, it's Entry Rush). 5th East now has nine new freshmen ... , Nick '09, Zak '09, and Ross '09. I took some pictures at the East Campus ... Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... of 9 externs at Brain Power, 3 in Web Development, 3 in Product ... we got taken out to lunch to local restaurants, all 4 of which were new

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ourselves. We don't look at each other competitively- I've honestly never felt

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  off to work in New Zealand instead of grinding away on problem sets in ... -Zealand-gap-year experiences instead of sophomore-year-at-MIT experiences. There is no such thing ... most of all, we want it beautiful. VC-talk is speckled with grandiose

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  healthy, cook, deal with my kinky hair, try out new flavours of alcohol ... specifically my relationship with one mentor who has grown into more of a sister ... from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020