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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the ... them for most of the weekend. (Pictures are at the bottom of the entry

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  the previous year. By then, some of the people I'd loved working with had left, or were on another team, or were on the other coast, and I ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared ... corner. the blankets on the floor are on top of a standard foam mattress ... Doctrine -- the enthusiastic belief in the liberating power of technology

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second ... decisions will make a profound impact on the rest of our lives. My classmates ... , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  from a library book about reproductive biology, with a degree of ... , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you, mom     One of the best ways to learn is to teach, both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... specific area of research you find interesting, you may try contacting the ... opportunities. For a list of current research areas, please visit the research
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already, yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I ... for days. I walked until the Japanese Ghost of Christmas Past walked up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I ... retrospect. There were lots of nice things about it, but the activation energy of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the ... Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on campus, but they're not run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Most ... MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants. ... Yes! Undocumented and DACA applicants submit the same application components and go through the same selection process as all other students. For
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... meeting, Russ had the idea of bringing in some MREs, 5000-calorie self

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  a train to a synthetic island off the coast of Tokyo to see a five ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... complete, Japan's variety in chosen tool of sewage disposal truly brings the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find ... each day in front of pretty microscopes and pieces of metal. The other ... , and it is a good feeling. I plan on attending the Houston MIT Class of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ("non-linear optics," "top of the class"), Colin Farrell's secret agent in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  about fluid mechanics. Sorry, it's the time of the season for offers, and ... DID YOU KNOW? The entire state of Wyoming (population 509,300) has ... , as the remainder of this entry should prove. So I stayed up until 5 AM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  the spacing is smaller. If there's a change of a million degrees over a ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... . Schuh, an associate professor of metallurgy in the department of materials

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005