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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  research, at least in biology, is driven by questions of cause and effect. If ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... much of it or something and they were going to come back. At 4:58am, an ... yourself to the many loaves of bread at desk." I was excited - free bread

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... things: all that training at the beginning of the summer to be an analyst ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  are then sent out to at least one of 57 Regionals across the world. Then, at Regionals, they'll compete against a field of dozens for the chance ... subset of students who participate in FIRST and those who enroll at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  with any degree of force until I noticed my partner stumble when I kicked ... Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... because my logic approaching inversions had been based off of trapeze, where

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ? No. At some point, there’s too much scatter between a set of options ... graduated, Arthur offered to put me in touch with a medievalist at Caltech ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a classmate about the class of 2019, and we agree that college acceptances have ... reflections): "6. I have a list of all the applicants whose stories really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  packing i had a lot of thoughts about my time at this dorm bottled up in me ... Of fire alarms at ungodly hours. 4 what it's worth, we've called EC ... ones leap,  of course you leap. You look at your new world, a smear of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  student and that there is no "one" type of student here at MIT. SBC Week 1 ... often dominated by men. I felt really comfortable and at ease in all of ... 'd share since there's a lot of clubs and orgs at MIT that deserve to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... admissions cycle. As before, you can apply to MIT at this link.  We have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  far into the future, to what happens after you show up at the school of ... offered at MIT, how do I want to spend my free time? How do I want to ... from a lot of new questions). I arrived at a few important points. 1. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... into the running and here I am at MIT. Yes, selection is a huge part of ... to look at all components of your application and try to holistically

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  about 15-20 minutes. Every day, at least one hour out of the many that I ... sleep at night. And I don't get much out of it. One hour spent and very ...   Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  ’t take into account the full range of aid that we offer, since they are ... : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of ... kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the ... everything everywhere all at once, the rock scene was apparently inspired by ... , which has a beautiful music video. i'm not a fan of psychological horror

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years. To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and each one passes a little faster. I'm currently a Junior Fellow at the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008