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• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  is an air museum in eastern New York that restores and displays Golden ... at Kingston-Ulster Airport, we could see patches of blue sky through ... Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  goodbye to the room I had in New York, at one point asking my parents to ... back at my parent’s home in New York for four weeks. I’m not the only ... . He had no thought of being an artist at all. He sat in his cheap little

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  . Of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of classes offered at MIT, three of ... requirements at once. On the other hand, it is offered every semester, so it ... , useful information here: the "J" at the end of the subject number indicates

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... of the most amazing women I’ve met at MIT. Throughout the past year ... of the waitlist. At that point, I was kind of jaded with college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world ... from yourself. That feeling, that feeling of growth is a new one. And it ... ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I ... Japan, so I bought a copy of his new book when it came out. Unfortunately

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  friend says that at the beginning of a program, he looks at the awards they ... around New Year's. We're going to take a tour of Hampton Court palace; way ... that getting into MIT would have been "the ultimate recognition of all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the ... Life, the Universe, and Everything"   To me, 42 is the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  almost cried tears of joy. My new machine is a Lenovo Yoga 730 (the newest ... years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... been retrofitted with an i7 processor, 256 GB of SSD storage, and 16GB of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  myself at a local university, working in a neuroscience lab through a high ... many different universities to see what kinds of programs and ... disappointed to see that many universities were very interdisciplinary at the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  University of Pennsylvania, which had recruited me for their creative writing ... don't offer the financial stability of an established company. But even ... type of person." During the beginning of my time at MIT, I struggled with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  enroll at MIT. As such, we are approaching the last of the many decisions ... , then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and ... enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  different age. As a result, he would, at the end of either program, emerge a ... should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... apartment) is a choice too, excluding an infinity of possibilities at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  some of my advisees and helping them pick their classes. A number of them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7 ... description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... interning at Microsoft under their New Technologists program. And while the ... "New Techs". A lot of these sentiments are reflected in the interns in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  slice of vegetable-topped focaccia and motioned at the bread with the ... at the slowness of my Spanish dredged up word by word, but I think ... been plunged untethered into the center of the universe, submerged in a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in ... class of cancer therapeutics worked. I’d say grad school at MIT is a

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and ... of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed ... tell by looking at a toad how far he will jump; second, the process of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs ... year at MIT is time management in all senses of the phrase. The ... firmly anything at all), it's been reassuring to hear the affirmation of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006