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• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... job at a prestigious consulting firm, a place where many of her peers at ... transcript.  I cross-registered for some classes at a different university and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  )[/caption] Lasell University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston won't be ... of a mascot. Brandeis University has two mascots—Ollie the Owl and The ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... able to take AP classes, as they are not offered at my school. I would ... their daily lives (e.g. does a computer scientist glare at lines of code

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  the record, setting a new mark of 51 seconds! This spring, you can see ... You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... find that near the Boston University bridge, there are a couple of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... . But at the end of the day, MIT students are, first and foremost, MIT ... fundamentally MIT-y, which makes it unique and different. At the end of the day

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  unacceptable. I'm planning to go to New York sometime this year so!!! hopefully I ... Happy New Year! I usually make resolutions every year, but I forgot ... freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at ... applying to engineering graduate programs at MIT. I am trying to find that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  . At that time, there are three things that could happen: You could be ... choose to accept the offer, or not accept the offer and apply to other ... with any schools. If you ranked MIT as one of your College Match schools
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company ... to give you a taste of the types of speakers at the program: Drew ... entrepreneurial culture at MIT. President Reif is a fan of StartMIT! Photo credit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  am equally fearful of trying new activities as I am to sticking to ... know I enjoy all of these things, even if I haven't created a new piece ... solution she offers is simple: "Why can't you be a combination of all of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  university where "Chang" takes up two entire pages of the campus phone ... -Hamentaschen debate. Some kind of party held at the height of Nelly's popularity, which ... : Pimp My Sukkah. Hello everyone! FYSH (first year students of Hillel) is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8 ... sandwiches One of the best things about New Vassar dining is that you can get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 ... one. When you've chosen a field of study, you then get a new advisor in ... CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... .  Either way, that's a savings of at least $70 per week, or $1050 per ... of a new Macbook Air per semester. What about time?  It takes me

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  under Taiwan's Universal Health Plan, I really had no sense of the great ... medicine at the slightest sign of a recurring cough or a stuffy nose that ... 's worth of medicine. At MIT, I'm covered under the MIT Extended Student

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  "]clone[/annotation] something new every day. steven introduces me to the rest of the team, which ... my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new ... clip of godaddy's CEO sincerely welcoming us. then a real person goes

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  cool, I don’t look back at my science fair years because of the work I did. Not at all. Rather, I look back at those years because of the ... her life. So on the brinks of entering high school, she had a new

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to ... lower stakes. Decisions made at the cusp of my childhood felt vitally ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new ... ? Every new year, Neil Gaiman writes a lovely little blog post with a wish (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013