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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  so silly. Pointless even. When I arrived at MIT in the fall of 2009, I ... still a week of late nights. I can't comment on sorority recruitment ... can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and ... , totally worth it. A little background, with a lot of parentheses: I just ... you should all sign up for) and the rest of the time participating in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... flying east as I stared north at the city I now call home, and the Charles ... , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever ... beginning of freshman year - and run through it all :) ~*~ Part I: Pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  -altering growth. Over the summer, I fell in love with the idea of building something ... in this place full of opportunities and knowing that I failed to grasp ... what I hear instead is “King of Boston to king of the world.” All I can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot ... in the story. I've watched about three seasons of Dimension 20 so far

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  students genuinely engaged in my workshops. I even gave away the majority of ... money! (1/17 - 1/19) I decided to make a stop in New York City after ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  can't say that I know the location of any in the surrounding cities. 3 ... four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR ... detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  engage in safe sex, and even have a library of books that you can educate ... this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... sexual health in a way that is honestly unheard of in a lot of places. We

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  and blow her away in a hail of discs, but I thought any move would ... playing in it! One thing I really love about 5th East - when those of us ... ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and ... cities in the country, with amazing architecture and interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  interested in the job, I might just get thrown in with the next cycle of hires ... -scholarship =/ I was at one of the summer programs, but my RA said that MIT in the ... . You should definitely try to come if you can. I've never been here in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  that I think of it, might not have been the best thing to do in front of ... and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their ... resolution to his stomach’s plight: a carton of Milk. In that moment, he has

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  . All day. Every day. Part of the problem was that I was taking this ... + cups of tea. I was taking one of the most notoriously difficult classes ... than fun (as a result of unanticipated circumstances), and I didn't make

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  , check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office ... you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and ... -2013 Admissions Interns What role they play in the office Why they are

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  as I can tell is mostly a convenience for organizing judging; plenty of ... technical details of a student's project, I can still have a good conversation ... that likes doing that, then I think you can sort of 'get' the point of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  and see MIT in all of its glory. We finished off the evening with what I ... perfect fit for MIT and I can't wait to see you as a freshman this fall ... brisk for you! CPW RECAP I would like to give a shout out to all of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  other places to drop some dough for a bite to eat. I'll leave the fun of ... , I was fixing for a crepe late last week and strolled in to Sebastians on the recommendation of the advisor for Active Minds, one of my ECs. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  'm working in Python, but I hope as I increase in difficulty, I can start ... confident in it. I should probably study 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming ... field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020