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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... hauled my luggage through the place, a warm savory smell drifted from one ... I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  committee for domestic applicants (including students deferred from early ... about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including ... . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  ?) for a good five hours with students we'd never seen before from other ... let go. Us four from Wayland stayed around, working that summer with a ... projects, and who's also a pretty cool dude), had pushed me away from the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write ... , going somewhere away from home so that I could not go home to do laundry

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  !) ...but I discovered from trial of fire that six classes is A LOT - I took ... ) Boston's North End is famous for its Italian food - this is a sample from a ... spent a blissful afternoon walking around Provincetown. After a refreshing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  . Lucas pulled out a Leatherman from his pocket (Lucas, why did you have a ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... strong!” Building 14 is shaped like a square and has a square courtyard

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  in Cambodia. Greetings from Kampong Thom! It has been a jam ... : Yesterday, as a break from our work, we took a whirlwind tour through the ... Hartley (MBA) '12 learns about the need for biogas from a family in Kien

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... . Simultaneously, their unique skills allow first gen students to stand out from the

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  connections here... Because they are MIT, and I suppose that even from a ... so) to share insight and perspective from a variety of experiences ... It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  Note: I freely admit I am stealing the title "A Room with a Vieux" from a lovely antiques store in Boston So here is my workspace (and my coworker, an intern from Stanford) from my summer job. The space isn't too

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  Almost exactly a week ago, after a blissfully underbooked flight back to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... public transportation. It was only a few years ago that I stopped taking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  speak about themselves. Anything they want to say, from a quick recap of ... leap above a river with nothing but a harness to keep me from falling is ... feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  Once upon a late October, MIT hosted its annual Family Weekend. Relatives flew in from everywhere, and were seen passing through East Campus ... hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is study help available?

  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  cocktail of knowing you should step away from your computer and take a walk ... rock climbing gym a fear from self-knowledge that you've never ... as far from adventure as a person can physically be (i.e., the book

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  that a week or so later, I get the following text from my friend Sarah ... following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... Friday night when I ran into a couple of my sisters. Them: Where are you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  our mentor. Our mentor was from a VC company. We laid out our plan for ... thai leftover from a different free food event, and got dressed: leggings ... A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  submitted a short case study drawn from my CMS/W master's thesis on user ... 'm blogging from nerd camp in Vermont. I've been coming here as a camper or ... , because I work at a university, and because there aren't any admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  than a block away from MIT campus and I could ask them any question I ... there and learn from them. Chris Quintero from Bolt, a venture capital ... around the world. Jay Farber from F-Prime Capital, a global venture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016