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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  : Early Move-In So it turns out Virginia is a fairly long drive from MIT ... MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique diversity of living environments at MIT is something we're proud of. As many ... wave hits a difficult spot, knowing the people you live and learn with is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or Aero ... camp" known as Unified Engineering, smiling in front of a 747 at the ... , we sat in the mission control room and walked in a simulation-soil Mars

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  should be!) Everyone says that this is not a normal time, that we are ... I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester even in normal times, from anecdotal accounts. In these 'unprecedented

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  . =) Keep in mind this is all after 11 PM on a Sunday! I got back to my ... resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is ... watched the game in a bar/restaurant place. Our waitress served our taps

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  people. That, in general, is a good strategy. Follow the cool people and ... matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar ... Recommendations. 1. PACKING Packing is a familiar concern. First, ask your host

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  mood has done a total 180 since then, so I feel I'm justified in talking a little more about the process that is consuming my life. Grad ... process, which is quite a bit different at the grad level than at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  Midyear Report, which will be available on MyMIT in about a month. On the ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  analysis for the 3rd 8.14 lab (Zeeman effect in Hg). My oral presentation is ... get a lot more done over spring break in all my classes. Consequently, I ... complete in any semester. Taking a break from work at MIT has its angry side

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  , we struggled through a problem set, we sat next to each other in ... chill. Today is the first February 14th in years that I haven’t spent with someone in a romantic context. I was in class until 1:30 pm, then I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  thing you can do is just tell us, in the additional information section ... we don't have a strong expectation in the first place). But this could ... , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . I graduated more than a month ago with the double major in CMS & 7 ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... and postcards and everything in between. And a lot of these feels are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  in these settings and the last is a public oral given to the class and ... progress. We expect that this will turn into a senior thesis (in physics) for ... still in its proposal stages) as an intern. By then I had a much more

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... staff in Anaikatti, I also got a chance to interact with some of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  those of you interested in keeping a running tally, we're up to 15 ... Children of Eden rehearsal, which is a miracle because I am notoriously bad ... wasn't for me, though. This is the point of the Housing Lottery in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  ; The flight was around 4 hours, and we touched down in the city a little ... check our stuff in so me and a group of others made a lunch trip to Chick-fil-A ... hotel bed after months on my TwinXL dorm bed in the morning was a battle

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  Believe it or not, this is not a post about how the bloggers are ... commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions ... and showed up to exactly one meeting, in which a crowd of student

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  Sailing Pavilion is the oldest university sailing facility in the country ... ! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light between Building 18 ... Massachusetts Avenue A Glimpse into Boston from the Harvard Bridge: Surely, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  Hallo everybody. As it turns out, video editing is a very time ... is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was ... 've got something pretty cool in store, so don't give up hope just yet

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009