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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  cappella group, mind you) at our last concert. It's tough, making new friends ... just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  just as many new buildings, made of the same red brick. Mountains ... football game once, on television, at a party. There were lots of adults in ... at-risk youth. He was later found guilty on 45 of 48 charges. The media

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... [annotation note="in library and information science, which is not offered at ... part of the city that I had never been to before, and found new haunts

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... of MIT’s campus this fall. Currently, I’m living at my home in NYC, and ... hopefully my 2019 blog post is true. At the moment, I might only know some of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  my last attempt at a New Year's Resolution. in my junior year of high ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious ... thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... coworkers and suddenly had a vision of him at age thirty, still at Dropbox ... didn't quite stir up the spark of wonder that MIT offers. Much thanks to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  University of Alabama at Birmingham is a popular choice that people from my ... : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... engineering research at a nearby university (albeit virtually, because of COVID

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the ... a lot of fun with the people at my table (yeah table 12!), it was ... 've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  I'm a member of the class of 2010. (Yeah. I'm new here. Let's hear it ... aforementioned locations. Jamaica. Florida - and the very tip of it at that. I ... running around in the courtyard screaming at the first sign of flakes. Yes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  .mit.edu/chocolatiers/www. Check out a video of the MIT chocolatiers in action at www.how2heroes.com ... New York Times!       A Lab Where You Can Lick the ... hundreds of student groups represented at Saturday's Student Activities Fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  of social distinction. Students at prestigious universities undergo ... "] some of my living community at the screening (featuring a slightly ... , so a lot of information was new to me. I wasn't expecting to know so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  document. Looking back at my journal, it’s filled with all kinds of notes ... part of me that doesn’t feel like I’m in a new place though. That in some ... . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inhale. Count to three. I stand, staring at my feet as a blend of laughter

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student resources are available?

  MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working. MIT has some breathtaking architecture. After four full years of being

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester ... '05 and worked at the National Institutes of Health, which was a great

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  Matsuoda, the VP of Technology at Nest, she admitted that she didn't do ... is a really hard luxury to take advantage of at MIT, but these talks ... My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  invent a bunch of new obligations but HOPEFULLY I would just read books and ... . The pace at which he thinks of ideas and puts the pedal to the metal is ... , but as the frontman of a punk rock band. I was a junior at MIT and went

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... , looking up at the ceiling, terrified of what had begun. My written ... consequences. Looking back at these old pieces of paper, I see now that I knew

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  , Maritza '03, mentioned at practice one day that her boss was looking for new ... summer at George Washington University, and I shared expenses with my ... other day, I said "I am not good at chemistry.") Alas, chemistry is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  admitting a small number of highly qualified applicants at a rate characteristic of our extremely selective process. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend reading the profile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011