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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  -hour-long conversations with people I barely knew. It was awesome. I found a UROP for next ... a position that matched the type of technical work I was looking for, in a company whose workplace culture was a great fit for my personality

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local ... that area for surveillance. I met them at a VR@MIT event back in February ... 've known for a while get bigger and smarter, which makes me even more excited

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  “development cases,” will argue that this makes the school a better place for the ... .   It is indeed unusual for a school like MIT to have no preference for ... work for a college which had legacy admission because I am not interested

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  little sidequests, our paths mainly crossing for dinner in a dorm lounge or ... intrinsic talent for gambling…) i am currently planning on being a [annotation ... vaulter! i am also preparing for spokes 2025, a summer program where 8 mit

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  . I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was ... . And a part of me wanted to stop writing entirely for a month. I thought ... writing experience to reflect upon. I had been blogging for over a year. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  fight for the same thing. There were a lot of young people around too ... Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and ... covered his vision of secular ethics, a foundation for compassionate action ... lines, it's refreshing for others to embrace and impart a message that is

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means ... it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the ... learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  ="I've been using this word for 'doing very little academic work on a given day' for a long time; I try to burn one day each weekend, which has worked ... , with a break for lunch. In the morning, I managed to get some work

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I ... -and-coming celebrities; for example, today I met Planet Labs, a start-up in San Francisco ... Picture for me, if you will, all your favorite celebrities. These are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the event.) For dinner, I went to India Quality, in Kenmore Square ... Tau (ZBT) for their dessert soiree. I'm not usually the shortest person

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  , Showergy helps reduce the probability for disease and ensures a safe ... take a shower! What does this mean for term life? It's actually a lot of ... Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  's going to be difficult for a given student to stand out among his or her ... tail end off for those C's in a way that I'd never worked for my A's in ... choice between studying an extra two hours for a test and doing a critical

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  to watch the movie! As for the movie itself, I sobbed like a little ... this movie for the first time with his parents felt like a turning point ... why in particular, but for a while I've been questioning my place at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light ... (these are after all new faces in a place I was setting foot into for the ... MIT and America for a bit, election animosity, problem sets, crazy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  a terrible stomach flu that had me prostrate on the bathroom floor for ... end up with a black hole for a star). Not to mention I haven't blogged ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  'll rust. Your kid will wrinkle up if left in the bathtub for a couple hours ... . My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to ... 't get to go. While anxiously waiting for their return, I've been pursuing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  option for non-native English speakers: Test of English as a Foreign ... TOEFL? A. TOEFL is the one test for which we have minimum scores. They ... take my exams? A. If you are applying for Early Action, you must

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap ... MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only ... Registration: Please register for CPW by March 25 or when your travel plans are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  wildfires. Half a million people have evacuated their homes, and more than ... has 646 public schools, with nearly 500,000 students. A thousand homes ... and prayers are with you. We know that for some of you, it may be weeks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007