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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... the northeast corner of campus; other close stops are Hynes/ICA (right

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country ... know I'm not the only Jerseyan to say this: Newark is one of the worst

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets ... one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole life, but when Covid struck, I stopped taking classes. For all of high

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free ... doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25 ... instead of doing tricks. He got excited at the prospect of a fresh new

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really enjoy seeing changes over time and I think there's a lot of different ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... sense of deja vu. I had done this before. I had searched a name like this ... wildfire. Chants of “running shouldn’t be a death sentence,” could be heard

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  have decided that taking five classes at MIT on top of a UROP and ... Education Arcade. I just found that I really liked the environment of the ... my UROP, I'm currently in charge of researching effects of previous

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  our urops. We recently found out, from one of our supervisors, that we actually cannot blog about our project until the end of the semester because ... list of all the stuff. We figured that some of ya'll might find this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  Admissions that most of you probably have no idea who I am. I mean, I don ... Hall. 2. Who is your blogspiration? Sam M. '07 wrote one of my favorite blog posts of all time. In fact, just go read it right now. I'll wait

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the ... ) Faneuil Hall is both a reminder of Boston’s glorious revolutionary past and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it ... some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a very small sample of the MIT population, mostly just the people I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  The unabridged version of a semi-recent, semi-typical, but memorable ... check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of manila envelopes lay on the floor, most of them only partially filled with ... tell you how you can solve your plots. A few of those sheets had not yet

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... energy drink 1 energy drink water thing 5 cups of coffee I slept 5 hours over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental ... self: work out more often for reward of hot shower. Note to everybody else: go to MIT for reward of hot shower. 10:50 AM: Walk back to Next

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006