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• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  miss Mikey, who has left us to attend grad school at the university down ... anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... "peasant" of a student, not a "poet" if that makes any sense at all), but now

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  on Central Park in New York City. eventual material: Some of the future ... at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and ... , the author of the class textbook!!) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  ! Unexpectedly, they incorporated a lot of music into it and also a meme at the end ... (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... A lot of very stressful things have been happening this month (and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  laughed. The last I had heard from him, Hassan had been in New York, so I ... ) and Stanley Opara, Director of Partnerships, at a Blockchain conference ... join Sela in the fall as CTO. That was how he got to New York, where Sela

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about another new class called 21H.000 History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics. It meets every Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute ... distance. Though I had already completed the swim test at the beginning of my ... (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  burning out were a universal Mocha exec experience, and part of the argument ... within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this ... dance on Mocha Moves, but come to at most one practice a week. I spend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  field, is routinely quoted in the New York Times, and he knows my name. So ... that at the moment. Questions and other such things: 1. War of the ... I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  can crawl out of bed at your own pace. You have the power to turn the ... an inordinate number of curse words. So to thank the universe for such ... , you've arrived exactly one minute before your train. One of those

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  of very recently, I'm an incoming Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL where I plan to do research at the intersection of Robotics and AI. You and I ... found out that a long-lost childhood friend of mine was now a student at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  . Ignatius at Seattle University. Simmons Hall, in case you don't already know ... architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  is relatively new and not super defined right now. So, instead of ... at MIT and in Boston. While I feel like I've taken advantage of it, I ... did in 2023: Went on a senior trip to New York with friends

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  university, at least with my qualifications. And yet they kept going. And kept ... work to maybe get to where he is one day, and at the end of the day, no ... old act of feeling stupid at MIT will grow old and people will no longer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  of the piece, I offer extra thoughts. I’ve awakened a deep fascination ...  "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything." It ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the Class of 2009. I was admitted early action and received the news around ... universities and I didn't have the benefit or services of a college counselor

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... New York short, which was a huge bummer. But I wanted time to rest, and ... the Skating Club of Boston or at the MIT rink, or the Burton Conner or Z

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  expectations, (3) accepting new ideas, and (4) offering individual attention as ... first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014