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• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... shotgun house in the Bywater, soaking up the sunshine and warm wet air ... , discarded my plans to see the city. I wanted to get inside. My sense of safety

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the ... students from the waitlist. As such, it isn't ethical to keep all of those people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between ... the second half of this year. I’m taking five classes; I’m doing ... . Unfortunately, that means that sleep is the shortchanged leg of the trinity. So I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  with a degree. There are also a number of subquests for the main quest ... night, but that's because the triangle is an oversimplification of sorts ... , and it’s important to understand the mechanics of the game you’ve just

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.[annotation note='All text on this blog post comes from the preface and first thirteen theses of Guy Debord’s classic The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  east coast doesn't hold a candle to the west coast in terms of japanese ... the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  percentage of students who choose to accept our offer of admission. The wait ... decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you ... enroll at MIT. As such, we are approaching the last of the many decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  spent the first half of my week home crying. Full body shakes and sobs as I cried into the late hours of the night. I was stressed by my classes ... state of self isolation. I knew it was stupid. Part of it came from the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about, I want to first introduce the structure of my internship: I'm part of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... just took The Biggest Exam of My Life Part 2 of 4 (9 hours long!), and ... of the above) Q2. We know you lead a busy life, full of activities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... had felt too soon, almost as if I were betraying the sanctity of my ... as “home”, and I came to a conclusion of sorts after the discovery of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  up working together to write down the names of as many distinct women ... an eye out on the blogs) and ate some really good pie of the meat and ... in the test tank at Sea Grant, the lab that Arcturus does most of their

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... all the schools and majors and degrees if you are curious.) As you ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  [/annotation] to the field. I am not someone who dreamt of being a scientist as a ... think I liked science that much; it was just the area of the pool that ... something I would put at the top of the list of things I am most passionate

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for ... suggested that we join the herds of tourists and walk the trail. It was ... 's stop and Park Street, and a crowded shuttle bus wasn't on the list of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... score became so much the purpose of the exams that when I got into college ... expensive prep classes. The supposed reward of credit was long forgotten

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... since the end of first semester. After my last final, 18.02/Multivariable ... the Skating Club of Boston or at the MIT rink, or the Burton Conner or Z

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Summertime, and the livin' is easy... and there are tons of awesome ... premieres of The 4400 and Hell's Kitchen, both of which we watched religiously ... tag was labeled with the same number). At the end of the week, my mom

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... – to coordinate and support work in the areas of food and agriculture ... delicious. But the conversation around the table was just as good. A mix of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012