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• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam ... which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  frozen is one of the films i can remember the animation well enough to ... time in my three years of joining code jam, i won a shirt. [caption id ... major equivalent of doing an internship. in a blog post, he writes “i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20 ... Biological Systems). I’ve also been putting in several hours behind the computer managing the news department of The Tech like I normally do as well

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  stay out of this room. Another sign I've seen around is this one. Mmmmmmmmmm, you can practically smell the radiation. I think what really drives ... "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! MY [insert name of body part that now has a hole burned in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who ... medium and creating compelling stories. There were nine of us in the workshop, and, even though I can’t speak for anyone but myself, it felt like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the ... even in the cool loner way, regardless of how I played it off. It took ... Memorial Drive side instead of Amherst Alley because I don't quite grasp the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in by, like Bonsai Kittens. But I really can't imagine why somebody would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... . But it is all in the name of science. All events taking place over the next week can be found in the Daily Confusion, which is actually just a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  capture the huge number of people milling around in caps and gowns. I ... been the most fun part of my day. I haven't been involved in the ... took lots and lots of pictures for your enjoyment. I woke up super early

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest ... -rooted curiosity of "can we do this" that I think makes these hacks very "MIT." Even ... If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what ... "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say ... decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a ... on only using MIT students! Bummer. In the closing few weeks of the ... few days later, I found myself in an office with Hardi Meybaum, co

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  rain and a strong breeze while waiting in line -- luckily I was under a small covering near the door. As you can see, I am completely drenched in ... was finally completed in 1994 after decades of blunders in planning, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits ... ! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might share a few thoughts. of course, i won't pretend that my experience

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been ... readjusted properly after in-house rush. Battle on, Erica. Anyway, tonight I ... photo ID and sign a special book. I guess it's kind of a security measure

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  ones, where my iPhone really can't quite hack it. The nature up in the mountains was a fantastic reminder of what life can be like outside the MIT ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  very strange looks. Whatever. Let the world judge. Also, I can't resist ... towels this week, or 2) suck it up and put them in the laundry. I picked ... !") and I proceeded to walk up two and a half flights of stairs, thinking (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in ... made a ton of friends in the Messenger groupchats that I spent a lot of ... of fun, but you'll be limited in the experiences you can have. don't be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue ... mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years ... 't remember many of the specifics. So I emailed Yan '12, who is also President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  in general? I have a completely different point of view from those presented in the article, probably as a result of the role models that I have ... schools, which I believe have a high percentage of women in the liberal arts

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005