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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  if you decide to go to college far from home or in a big city. The end ... you are excited about and what qualities matter to you in a college ... ’re interested in or what matters to you in a college, that’s also okay. This time

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round ... deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  in to find a bag one of them had left. I was in the middle of the ... , and my voice dropped to nearly a whisper, finger me hissed in the space ... language. I used a voice unlike the way I spoke day to day. I tried to make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  conspicuously absent for a very long time because he does not want anyone to find ... came to MIT with the intention of majoring in in 6-3, graduating, finding ... I had to start using Twitter at least five times a day for Writing for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  we were going to host a TED Conference right in our very own Kendall ... thoughts, you'll become more illuminated in 84 topics. That can be useful no ... remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  charm to it. In addition to experiencing what it's like to be a "real adult" in the "real world", I've been able to spend a good amount of time ... and I, we've really gotten to know each other. In between splitting and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably ... 've also been on OpenCourseWare from time to time in an attempt to learn a ... centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  'm going to answer in a hodgpodge some of the straightforward requests I got ... AP classes, this resulted in a lot of people struggling to get by. B ... , and it serves as a nice cushion in the adjustment to college life. I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  find joy in spite of that. I got to do so many things that fascinate me ... phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I ... needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History ... pieces to the cosmological puzzle. The teams used a particular kind of ... . Therefore the findings of the 2011 Nobel Laureates in Physics have helped to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  interested in learning more about a specific culture as well. You find people ... . Similar to my experience, you might end up living in a quad your freshman ... 's really hard to typify what it's like being here in a few short words or

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  want to hear. Should I consider answering in a more conventional ... the most to an applicant in high school. We find that these five things ... need more room, use question #14 to expand your descriptions. But when in

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a ... database, and fill in the gaps. The other intern and I had to come up with a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  line to a text file. Then, I cobbled together a tweet generator in Ruby. This script takes the text file as a source, uses the MarkyMarkov gem to ... , rolls a D20 to decide if they should be SHOUTED IN ALL CAPS, and posts the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to ... used extensively before arriving to MIT. Felt like I was meeting a rock

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  , my friend Diana and I thought we'd take a little trip out to Haymarket to see what kind of deals we could find. Trekking down the Infinite ... advertising auditions for a show on WGBH, so we decided to follow the posters to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which ... particularly useful. In biology at least, a masters degree won't really get you ... at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  people that used to know me best. Around this time 3 years ago, I was a ... , I've started to see these years in a new light. I'm starting to feel ... we want them to stop and wait with us just a bit longer. In the rush of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  in my last entry. I wanted to title this entry "Now I'm a little boy ... Spain interns last night, I gazed into my wallet to find a total of 6.86 in Euro. Then, in reference to the quote, "When I get a little money, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  've been using since Interphase to make my life a little bit easier ... to get a question in edgewise. TAs also look to avoid these OH and they ... gives you a few silent hours to have personal help and you find a group of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013