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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  creativity, anyone can set a world record! But I wasn't here just to relax, so ... Boston. It's also home to a football field-sized reflecting pool, which ... the shade and tried to finish a final project report due that afternoon

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... 've managed to put this aside with a million reasons. I should be working. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  before heading to the living room. Kate's there too, writing something on a ... next hour and a half, before I head to the kitchen and cook lunch. The ... to the living room to grab my laptop before going upstairs to take a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... don’t seem to have any pictures of this fabled field, but Mai Chau is a ... good bonfire, our group of five decided to take a look at what was

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au ... Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to DC, the fact that I’m going to be a *senior* is slowly, and painfully

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there ... because it gives me a legitimate reason to use my crayons. Otherwise I just ... Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  a fearless innovator with “new and insightful ways to tackle ... has tinkered with bacteria to make them produce a petroleum-like fuel ... and management, David originally wanted to become a neuro or orthopedic

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... absolutely painful to write.  Okay, let’s backtrack a bit. We aren’t writing ... wanted to write this as a message to our present selves, our high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  . I’m a teaching assistant. To get funding, most MEngs have to TA or RA ... fellowship. In particular, we have the 6-A program, which allows you to intern ... market was difficult and they struggled to land a job. Totally

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  tickets to a performance of Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freisch ... class burst into flames of the warring variety, and I was treated to a ... -needed arguments were raised in the early stages of the battle, not to mention a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... to graduate,” but let us not fret about semantics. HASS, in a vague

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  to a boarding school to finish high school; but sometimes, applying to ... decision? Does this student have the emotional and social maturity to be a ... section of Technology Review. I'll print some of it below, with a link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic ... order. Time to make lunch! Salad + fruit + almonds + a roll orrr PB ... becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  @mit.edu. We’ll be here to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure we get ... Southeast. Meanwhile, according to ReliefWeb, there is flooding across Latin ... these regions with much more immediately important things to worry about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... an admissions blogger to watching a movie every night for PNR. College ... with MIT, but it just gives you a better opportunity to meet more people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  was a golden era when faculty "didn't have to answer to anybody." She ... —as a much cheaper alternative to 16mm. Soon thereafter she collaborated ... , Naim June Paik dropped by, declared video a phenomenon comparable to

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A: Part 2 where I FINALLY answer the rest of your questions :'D

  

  Thanks to everyone who left questions in my Q&A! I haven't gotten ... 're that ambitious. Work on a project that you've always wanted to work on ... while you're a student, and a class that you planned to take in sophomore

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... am unlikely to see a castle built for me anytime soon!) While big ... not get to hear from everyone, I hope to get a broad sense of community

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... ’s relationship, and who are we to erase a woman’s agency by assuming she must be ... to stay polite? Was it his fault for asking me a racist question, or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . It's been a long semester. I had to take four course 16 classes, and I ... laundry, but my room was a mess. I went to class, but I could have and ... hike Mt. Washington, and leave Boston for a weekend. I want to stay up

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020