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• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at ... topic for a lot of students at MIT, and that's because everyone has ... months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life ... KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them ... those prints mightily in the warm weather of Saint-Tropez. Then again

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  . I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and ... here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  waitlist? We offered 389 applicants -- approximately 3% of applicants -- a ... accept our offer of admission. Some years, we overpredict (as in the past ... the offer of admission from another college before May 1. After May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  text of Learning to Learn at MIT below: It was the end of my freshman ... first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of ... would lose a semester of time here at MIT. In addition, because of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  questions and comments everyone had. One of my co-workers, Robin, offered an ... tattoo. Christina finds the corpse of a jellyfish and we throw it at each ... The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin ... , North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho...and then think of all the ... it does when I look at town lights out of the airplane at night and try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  friends of mine to the Arnold Arboretum, all the way out at the end of the ... the top of the hill for a while, and just gazed out onto the Boston ... Arboretum, we headed into town; some of our group had vaccine appointments at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Hall has a step at the entrance. Don’t trip over it. Tomorrow you should ... recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... , if you’d like. What follows are this CPW’s super-exciting events at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  Eiffel Tower from the top of that hill—the whole skyline was blocked by the ... towards the exit. I was fed up with Paris at the end of it all. Though I ... amplified with every twinge of repulsion I felt at shops selling T-shirts with

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  care of sick students in my hall and at MIT in general, which I'm really ... , pianist, feelings-book kind of guy, and not at all your typical frat brother ... So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  -you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall ... variety of food Maseeh offers. As someone who observes a halal-diet, my ... Although eating at Next House involves a 15 min march to the end of dorm row

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... at least had to put some amount of effort into the project. when i ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange ... . Like, I had walking pneumonia at least twice in high school, have managed

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  'm really suprised at the number of public toilets there are in Tokyo. Shame ... it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the ... Japanese couple who loves to travel (the grandmother, at 67 years, is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... , and how I look at the world. 6.172 taught me a lot of technical things ... what the magic is at every level. Besides setting one up for plenty of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  sake of getting this deal. At some point, they started requiring a unique ... , you can read the resistance of a resistor by looking at the four colored ... marveled at the rows and rows of independent comic artists, from published

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... . These were Masters students working as part of their degree. Laura ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005