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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  balloon rides were offered across the city on Saturday afternoon. And boy ... how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th birthday and doesn't have a party? I know I'm gonna party when I hit 375 (or

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  pursue the field explicitly stated on their degree. Thankfully, for me ... major isn't for everyone and please don't feel like you're an inferior ... navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  University, an 8-day research and cultural exchange session. I’m not doing ... cultural identity, And third, in the United States I’ve also always felt kind ... . Facebook and google are banned, but for some reason Facebook Messenger still

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  May I include supplementary materials with my application?

  , visual artists, and makers to submit supplemental materials. If you must mail materials to MIT, please use this address: Massachusetts Institute
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  University of Cambridge. And yes, none of these were really rejections to be ... sophomore year, and I had a job offer in hand by mid-November. I didn't really ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  University, and enjoyed a relaxing senior spring. So did I, but it was ... I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  month, yay for IAP). - The record low for November is 8 degrees and the ... me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking across the Harvard Bridge and bang, we felt a snowflake (the first

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... refreshing 72-degree and sunny day. That was a welcome change. And then today

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  University of Sannio about the productivity gap between the North and the South ... a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entire university of MIT. Every freshman comes in undeclared and can choose ... With Ben and Mollie recently answering your questions, I started to ... entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  parallel universe is living out each of a hundred different lives, and each ... my current life in this universe. and i suspect that having too much ... don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  doors, new carpets, new paint, and everything. Mikey's gone on vacation ... couch, and put my feet up on his desk. The downside, I guess, is that I no longer have my protein shakes and favorite notes from applicants

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  near-universal surprise a little amusing. They’d ask how I’d done it, and ... . Between then and now, a fusillade of transformations has taken place. Rather than present a disjointed patchwork of events from here and there, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  my awareness to power relations, infrastructure, and state building and ... , and how they may offer alternative solutions for our current ecological ... classes the first week, made some tough decisions, and dropped down to 5 the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... Laboratory, the FBI, the Department of Defense, the United States Army and the Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  of other people just wanted to see what was beyond state lines and ... So I've been spending some time in my hometown over Winter Break, and ... before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... , thunderstorms, 98-degree days, followed by rain and a 40 degree temperature drop ... degrees and that things like ice cream runs are a necessity. My lab, being

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  stereotypes and conceptions towards MIT (or prestigious universities as a whole ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry - that's 21F.704, 7.02, and 5.12 for all ye eager beavers) this week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009