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• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  5 We woke up starving and went to get brunch in Condesa around Parque ... never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... --a storm, tornado, [annotation note="In 8th grade I was supposed to go to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  will take. In addition, I want to get a concentration in Music." I ... When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  learning about safety in the lab, since you're going to be working with glass ... long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... !). You put air in one end of the pipe to blow a bubble in the glass on the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... , video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the ... properties either those inherent to the cell or those in the local environment

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  in order of importance if you don't have time to answer them all. It ... UROP in the Plasma and Fusion Center writing scripts to decipher NASA ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some ... Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale ... semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... . The other third of you are actually going to live in Boston! When other ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  successfully after a while, choose to take in the things that bring color to my ... lies ahead. I am in a bit of a corny mood tonight, so I want to leave one ... mindset goes sour remember there is so much beauty to grasp always. In the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission: Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often ... 800 SAT scores whom they had turned down. Message: You’ll never get in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  have 4 large windows that I normally open to let the breeze in. I like to ... dorms at MIT, you get to pref who you want to live with, what floor you want to live on, the type of room you want to live in, and who you want

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology major to go to graduate school in biology, but you should have at least

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... . It's really hard transitioning to San Francisco from Boston. In Boston ... across the bridge to my house. I don't feel in danger, the public transit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  in French libraries, trying to get used to the French keyboard... it ... students all over the world to participate in internships, and they try and ... read that right - until I could get mine fixed. It turned out to be quite

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  ™,[/annotation] here's my advice: Get to the airport so early that you learn that you ... while waiting Get mad you're not that good at Tetris Check to see if ... while (still only 30 minutes though) Head straight to Shake Shack Get

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  description I just submitted to the events crew: You've spent the last 6 months getting to know the admissions "bloggers" online. Come meet Matt, Ben ... For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... -inscrutable concepts racked my brains to no end, had a few guest appearances in the 8 ... material in class. To further put that in perspective, I typically wasn't the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012