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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  -time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts ... give a reading of his new book and talk about his writing process, which ... 't realize how important of a role they play in your life until you back at the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my ... ? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  . options at the end of my job search i had offers from the following three ... new york, which i was interested in because most of my friends will be ... childhood. a lot of them are smarter than me, or better at problem-solving, or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now ... the MIT Class of 2029, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early admission to 721. Though they are all different in their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  , engineering, or another field of study at MIT. This major includes a three ... media, ranging from New York Times stories to Twitter feeds. Provides ... taking a course load of nearly all writing classes, four or five at a time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  Western Massachusetts, along with wide swaths of Vermont, New Hampshire, New ... , which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... areas of Western Massachusetts. This kind of snow, which is unusually

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  Southern New Hampshire University. We won this game 5-2, and it gave the team ... is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  New York Times), on international education and admissions, and on ... buckets of mail, plus all of the online application pieces. It's pretty ... MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... research university. UROPs are technically a part of a larger [annotation

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  there. I made new friends at the Twitch office, where I commuted almost ... in Palo Alto, marveling at the beauty of Stanford campus as I biked ... maybe did exactly once and spent the vast majority of Wednesdays at her

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality ... course, I turned down a job as head literary critic for the New York Times ... depressing read, although Foer does find several new (to me) ways of expressing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  New York City! Michigan My first stop is Southeast Michigan - the place ... . The next day, we slept in, and went to a late brunch at one of my ... New Hampshire, has some of the most beautiful foliage in the Fall

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Growing up there wasn't a kid at school who didn't dream of robotic suits ... of news we have two groups at MIT who are both working on robotic arm ... question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  Boston right at sunset showed me a view of the city I had never seen before ... had considered taking a day trip to Salem or even New York, but the ... small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  . He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  must have written at least a hundred different stories, most of them ... , escaped from some universe, a piece of a jigsaw puzzle I’m privy to. And the ... staring at the face of the killer, you’ve forgotten the wash of emotions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  stats: who am I? Jude, 20 years old originally from New York ... worried about) sort of had ideas of studying chemistry at first, but then ... on questions of life or uncertainty or being-at-MIT (hint, it was

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their ... significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  really make something of that time? "MIT 09er who's not at ISEF" wrote ... capable not just of doing the work at MIT but capable of much greater things ... that. In fact, most of my friends at MIT were like me -- no HS research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  story. In 1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a ... Brass Rat Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006