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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  kids. The next afternoon, I taught a pulsar class for high school kids ... 12 (the last day of CPW :( ) Chelsea and I boarded a plane to San José ... (actually, it seems like a LOT of the people involved with Stanford Splash are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... blogs seemed like a good platform and the bloggers, a good community ... third, which was maybe a mix of both.  The thought was always to create

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... Sims 3 until the next flight at 8:45 a.m. Sims 3 or no Sims 3, sitting around at the airport can be a drag.. and having no one to talk to makes it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  relaxing deeper into the bubble than ever, into a special world only ... three movies a day. I remember wondering how long it could last. If the ... guilty for not constantly tooling. To my amazement, the wallowing never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  graduation rites, there was a defined moment when we graduated. It was when the ... school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It ... for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  a couple of pleasant surprises for the brave souls who made it this ... the weather finally getting better, I rallied my hall for a picnic ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... atop my mini-fridge for a long, suspenseful day before its first chance ... we head for Briggs Field where everything was coming to a head. On our

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome ... the ground for an hour and a half. In the afternoon, my post-finals pre ... remember - if I did the exact same thing every day for a week, seven days

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... again. I also did a fair bit of reckoning, the fruits of which fed this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the ... things that caught my eye. The Infinite, for those of you who haven ... a friend you hadn't seen in a while, and stop awkwardly in the middle

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  . The reason that we don't have a separate form for EA is that the form ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the ... excitement for being here, at MIT, with some of the most incredible people in ... 's Leadership Brunch, I got a chance to speak with some of the female admits to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our ... . Education standards are certainly improving for sure, as both Ghana and the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... was for Grapefruit and the P was for peach. apparently i have no taste."]a ... a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  ) for an interview. By the end of the week, I had a UROP at Choi Lab. It ... 'm working for the knife Recovery isn’t linear. Growth is a turbulent thing. I ... dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  after the A or B in the course; instead, I went for understanding the ... . For me, MIT is a playground. I can play around going on the monkey bars ... !) - published a letter to the editor from Folkers E. Rojas on February 28th that I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  ago to the advisor for the writing department, and she got back to me quickly. We met and the next thing I know I'm handing in a sheet of paper declaring writing as my second major. Well, applying for the second major

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  know that this process can be a complicated one. For those of you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: I wish you the best ... applied for admission for Fall 2014. Transfer applicants, unlike freshman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014