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• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... cheerleading practice with me -- she was a cheerleader in high school, so coming ... in high school. My dad was a football/basketball/baseball star. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• 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 ... didn't quite stir up the spark of wonder that MIT offers. Much thanks to ... 't care that much about compensation. Of course, most people are not in a

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

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities ... offers something interesting for the entire family. (I know my parents loved getting to visit me here.) MIT offers information sessions followed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I ... entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes, and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... some of these things. Since freshman spring, I only ever taken as many ... I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  biggest ones. Luckily, most of my Spanish came back from high-school and I ... While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school forms (teacher ... MIT's regular action deadline is January 1. The Office of ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  are a bunch of different classes, each of varying degrees of difficulty ... . I'm discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things ... taking a lot of classes over a wide variety of disciplines. These are known

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  and stored the results on Google Sheets. Out of the 45 schools listed, I ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you ... sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  !!! But I’ll be missing three days of school and I’ll have to pre- and ... like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This semester I loaded up on project classes. All three of my technical classes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  ; Michelle, do you remember?) year of high school, when my friend Michelle ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on-campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  schools and one of the factors I'm considering is the social scenes at the ... ). Other schools that are the Beavers include Oregon State U, hockey ... College of New York. Just curious wrote, "This has probably already been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  vague memories of him making and offering me cookies but I am rude and I ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... . Cory is reading a book (I think it was One Hundred Years of Solitude). I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two weeks before it opened. I suppose as a member of the MIT community and a ... entry stairway, offer visitors space to mingle. A scene from URT

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... far into the future, to what happens after you show up at the school of ... think differently. In high school, I was, like a lot of you, an academic

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for labor ... moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  ’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher, the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... room, and then transported the toiletries and school supplies section of ... beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  "] Members of my a cappella group and my best friend from high school turning ... , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  the school I'd been dreaming of attending all along - who let me crash ... quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008