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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  everyone around me is stressed and apprehensive - sorry, friends. But really ... came after 6th, and of course, college after 12th. College. Something so important and life-changing. Some people even get engaged in college - how

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets, essays, and tests so commonly found throughout the dread halls of the Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Institute was quite literally like no other place on Earth. All I did was listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and ... current social structure places so much emphasis on adhering to norms and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  favorite '09 prefrosh and now he's a full-blown MIT student, workin' the CPW ... Jojo and Diane, who rocked the reg desk next to us for many hours. After ... yourself?). Then Marilee spoke for awhile about how and why we chose you

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  : 1400+ students and 1100+ projects from across the world were at ISEF. One ... awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the students/projects I wanted to visit during public hours, and I sadly made it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any ... on mitadmissions.org on the freshman class profile and the admissions ... colleague McGreggor Crowley '00 and I had applied this year, perhaps only one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for ... 's?) content. Here are this year's offerings: Baskin-Robbins * Pralines n

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  an offer in December and, after realizing that I was about to have $50k ... was before Tesla REALLY took off.  It was a Tesla Roadster and I was awed by its 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and it being all-electric. 2 years later

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  ethnicity or not? Of course you should! Despite all the stereotypes and ... is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... step to "solving the puzzle" is connecting the corners and the outside

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  Brief background: I try to be healthy. I don't eat junk food, and I ... take my healthy lifestyle to the next level and train for the Boston ... of use, and they're not intended for long distance running. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  tools, ethical benchmarks, and institutional influences are examined as ... could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the ... romanticizing the classes and picturing myself seated in the classroom learning

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and ... is actually pretty cool, because we're learning and practicing a bunch

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  i. i watched the anime attack on titan last year and liked it a lot ... my favorite 30 seconds of the entire show (minimal spoilers present and ... scene, one of the antagonists appears and transforms into a titan. the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  , have lunch somewhere closer to campus (like Baker or Maseeh), and then ... still eat at a dining hall: they accept cash and TechCash. From what I ... biggest problem with this option is probably cost, and flexibility: to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... , spending time with our family, and also speed walking. During the semester ... our socks in pairs. And we have been walking in mismatched socks every

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more ... States Air Force. If you’re a current MIT student, you may have seen us ... leadership labs, physical training sessions, and field training preparation

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. And so, we employed our favorite technique ... the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to feel like one giant meatloaf of beaching and eating and working and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  medication that isn't available in the United States and is unfortunately quite ... . They last about a week, and can make it painful to eat or speak. Their ... my lips and ice easily melts inside my mouth.  1/10 Salt. I saw on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or ... in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  a good ten minutes, I decided to call home and get my mom to check for ... to be rejected, my mom would see it first. But still, I called. And told her how to log in. And listened to her read the letter. And

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010