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• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  asked I've been think, most of the UROPs I've read about are in biology ... : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows plenty of room for you to tell us about any special circumstances regarding
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority recruitment and experience is like, which you can read here. Because a lot of ... was thinking that I’d take you all on a tour of a few of them! Alpha Phi

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... database of some kind (maybe I can finally learn Firebase) so people can ... 's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  to reflect an aspect of human cognition in some way. Unfortunately, I ... the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... ratings were high, but it ended up being one of my favorite classes that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... newest little brother in my fraternity. I departed from home at 4 pm in an unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in ... 's over"). I can't overstate how wonderful it was -- like a third way of ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  soon, I just moved in.   As part of Orientation each fall, MIT ... .   In New York, my friends and I tried an all you can eat sushi ... visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying ... , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  constellations of objects and events in time.” Without spoiling too much, I ... schools’ departments) I went to this event (and most of the other ones in ... than half of the world's population now live in urban areas :0), and I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my ... past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I ... naps in the grass. Go on spontaneous road trips. Stroll through city

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  one of those boring spots in the background? I am a firm believer that ... watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  of great wars in the future. Historical cases include World War I ... : What can I say? There are few topics as important as this. Meanwhile, in ... at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering ... . =================================== In high school, I spent a lot of time playing music. I was playing my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the ... exactly what sort of healthcare they'll be getting at MIT. I've also added a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  Spokes America, I can tell he'll get a lot more out of that than an ... I was accepted and I lost in both of them. Yup, I was just a dude who ... is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  procure it. You can buy fancy clothes and blue steel at the mirror in the ... different way of doing it wrong. Sorry Chicago. You can confide in other ... expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact ... all of the places I'd be traveling in the next five days, some of them

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005