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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank you for being engaged with MIT and our admissions process. This year ... : about jobs, about your ability to pay for college, and more generally

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her ... speeches for Persuasion and Debate or learning a full year of Latin in three ... word about my job until mid-May.) "Be a camp counselor!" said Peach. "I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  time i'm teaching for a multi-week program. i'm teaching a crypto class ... for a type theory class taught by a friend. it's not too much work, but ... knowledge? i'm an sra for macgregor this summer, which is kind of like a gra

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  , though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... campus for a weekend, to do things, which are limited only by what the ... MIT Mystery Hunt was, and what it was like. Since the youth yearn for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library ... . Below is a list of ten of the best spaces for both of these activities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away ... while planning for a successful second semester.” And the next minute (or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... desk at my dorm for that $11 Massachusetts minimum wage (10 hrs/week) Being a DJ/producer/OTA engineer for the third year and programming co

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  The postmark/submission deadline for Early Action is tonight! How is ... , the Admissions Officers had a "mail opening party." In reality, it wasn't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  collecting items for a Concord Market feast. There were so many things to ... materials for a charcuterie board! [carousel image1="113086" image2 ... . '27 (a sophomore, who is lucky to be able to enjoy Concord Market for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  , visiting more family every two and a half seconds... Oh, IAP. Thank you for ... walked to 7-11 in the biting cold like only a crazy person should. With ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  enroll elsewhere. For Ben, this was truly more than a job. So please use ... As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn ... section of a textbook for my math seminar, and it was all about applying the ... . Michelle has already written a lovely post about Course 14 (economics); I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  Hi! So I disappeared for a bit last semester on the interwebs, but ... more importantly, go exploring. I decided to go on a caving adventure to ... have been a Medlink for a full semester, I really want to get more

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... important design elements along the way. A few days before their project was ... finalists for the contest, which meant a free trip to California to present

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  , East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... stuff all the time, for a while it feels like you are always missing out ... -yourself. This is great for eating on a budget, dealing with allergies, or learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... ...really interesting to see some of the reasoning for it. A lot of people told me it was ... accepted me for who I am in such a short amount of time. I really feel as if

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  a study abroad is kind of like matchmaking. For one month (or ... it wasn't a complete 100% vacation =p). For me, I haven't done Spanish ... looking for, and he directed me upstairs. Now, with A LOT MORE nervousness

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  everything takes place at night; only those with a special disregard for sweat ... pilgrimage to Eegee’s, which is a Tucson sandwich chain named for its fine ... -shattering importance. Watching certain movies as a crusty wise nineteen-year-old has been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached ... Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive   For a more detailed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  name for a 5th East-er, if you couldn't figure that out) because of ... looked at that first drop, I felt genuinely scared of a coaster for the ... Harry Potter fame) tried to kill the Great Dome with a curse, leaving a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005