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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  middle of packing my life up, ready to ship myself back to New York, but I ... interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the days of awkward small talk over the counter at Target, or small smiles

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  , MIT has announced that we will match federal Pell Grants (FAQs, New York ... admissions decisions via the web. We will release decisions at decisions.mit.edu on Saturday, March 18 at 12 noon, Eastern Standard Time. There's not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  college acceptance, a job offer, moving into a new apartment. but a lot of ... parallel universe is living out each of a hundred different lives, and each ... a college campus (and at my alma mater no less) exposes me to random

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  death.[/annotation] We took the wrong train but arrived in New York after ... note="conversations under the star-studded skies of New Hampshire, 'how ... graduated and did a semester at Auckland by then – I'd experienced university

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... new College of Computing, which coordinates computing education ... interest in the intersection of humans and computing at MIT, and a rapidly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  -censored the fanfic so that it would be at least a semblance of appropriate, and ... 'm writing this after finishing my third and final CP* event, which was some of ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parent event offerings based on feedback, requests, and questions. Some of ... Services Session for Parents: Friday afternoon at 1pm, Director of Student ... , whys and whens of financial aid at MIT -- how we determined your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  hospital and at home in New York. I had to miss my final classes for recovery ... at MIT, and I love it. Here are some of the classes I am taking or have ... the class by listening to, looking at, or talking about an example of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  eating everything at eastern edge a rave review of a new food hall!

  

  This past week, a gift was bestowed upon the universe: a new ... .[/annotation] Nay, not just one, but nine (9) yes NINE, let me say it again nine new places to try food. Eastern Edge is a new food hall located right in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that the only thing we can do is to take things one semester at a time. And ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  ankles in urban New England. Slush is a test of courage and moral fiber ... playground of optical physics and offers to give you plenty of brain candy if ... to Wikipedia, and two of them offer interesting solutions to Aviv

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  of the links at the bottom of this entry, and rest assured that almost ... E. Chemical Engineering, or Course 10, is sort of at the intersection, and you ... have been traveling around for MD-PhD program interviews, which is one of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters ... description of life as a doctor -- it just got a little graphic at times, and ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will ... The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of the most exciting things about being a student at MIT. The flagship MIT
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  drove up from New York with (way too many) of my remaining bags and boxes ... Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at ... much longer. Time doesn’t flow at its normal rate when everything around

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  . The idea is quite new at MIT, but I got to talk to the head of the ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... New York Times crossword puzzle, the chemistry teacher who is your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Swift’s new album, and start digging myself out of my inbox. 11:11 am: I ... my new 6.005 groups for phase III of the project (a pretty user ... , Student Center behind us):   And here are pictures of my new fuzzy socks and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  's just say, at the bottom of everything was a turd. That would be me and ... -themed restaurants in cities around the world, including New York and Tokyo. We were ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  Boston to New York, New York to Dubai (where I met up with my mom), and ... MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of a classroom project, a cool new toy, an internship with MISTI

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012