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• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  skin is peeling off, and it's 30 degrees outside. It's surreal. I think ... detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable fuels and turkey carcasses are awesome and everything, considering that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer ... ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," and Day 3 - "College Life ... (and now coloring books too). Last summer, I got to see Chuck Palahniuk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• 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 / 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 / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  , so that means that a bunch of living groups and clubs and teams take this rare opportunity to go on trips and retreats up in the Northeastern ... Amphibious Achievement, which teaches local high schoolers how to swim and row

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• 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 / 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 / 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 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  assumption that there is no institutional memory and that attitudes are ... . Our housemasters of several years, Prof. Julian Wheatley and his wife ... housemasters, Student Life staff, two GRTs, and two residents of the dorm. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005