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• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  , I'll have a diploma in hand and some extra lines on my resume, and it ... are realizing what it means to be in the center of all this vibrant ... to see the world and take in the fresh air and ride that bike and surf

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical ... handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... can let my Day 1 Lecture Notes stand in place of a blog post describing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  to be at all! Everyone works hard and studies, but they hang out, party, have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy side, and we embrace and accept that. Someone can tell a nerdy joke and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... to make this world a better place, each in their own way. So to the ... that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... , requires a commitment to fantasy. Yes, in this world everyone else knows the ... Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so, reach out to us at ... Admissions officer available to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure ... you need to apply in the timeline that works best for you and don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in ... . Jackson, a father figure to generations of young men in the house, died of ... 's death. "I think Jack used his last breath to blow out the pilot light to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  that’s kind of what everybody else wanted to do in a VR space too. The ... In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  you're in wants you to pay a whole month's rent when you only need it ... to cross out 7A in the primary major spot. If you're interested, you ... MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their ... school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... GPA even in Course 9, after turning down the opportunity to "earn

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef ... in the wild. It excites to me think that in a few short years, I’ll be out there, in the Real World™️, getting to use all of this cool

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  flew in on Wednesday so that we could have a day for travel and use it to ... to bed until roughly 3, I set three alarms. In a random anomaly in the ... . Then I came back and hung out in the dorm and talked to Snively for a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about ... ? (By the way, here's a general rule to pronouncing MIT numbers: the ... listening to songs composed by Alexander Borodin. Borodin was a chemist by day

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  MIThenge, after Stonehenge in England, and not to be confused with "Mitt hedges", which was a commonly used debate tactic in the 2012 United States ... ISS transits to the second, there's actually quite a bit of uncertainty

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... I used to be really passionate about in high school -- which mostly ... a bit and then I go back to being a floater. I was a floater in high

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the ... in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself, "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  feels like there's a lesson to be found in everything, under every rock ... Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics ... , and is a crazy thrifter (he actually has the craziest finds i've ever

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away ... certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... started. There's a recurring theme in the answers to all the questions here

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018