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• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  year; it depends on how the pool looks. Basically, if you've been ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students. Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  doesn't this burrito look as appetizing in this picture as it does in real ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... it comes to quick food at minimal investment and effort to yourself, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  enough money. How does she keep her hope alive? Having connected with like ... It was about three weeks ago that I found myself standing outside the ... interactive panels. It’s the first effort of its kind in the Institute

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  how I envisioned my first full day back...but it made for a good bonding ... in lunch between lecture periods. If I see sunset, it's because I ... basement of one of the main buildings. It's the best thing ever. Me: What

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  and moaned about how terrifying it would be. He agreed that yes, it ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it ... anyone's stereocilia. I belt it out. I emote without worrying that people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its ... , Asymptones, NaNoWriMo—but I enjoyed the camaraderie, enjoyed learning how to hold a knife and butter a turkey and how to make a meal for over a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  discovery. Exaclty how this came to pass is a long story and I'll skip it here ... refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise ... that flow chart and remember how that moment felt. * * * In July, my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement ... ’m visiting my family in Ohio, and it feels like always. Except, I do miss the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  how the prequel trilogy could have turned out the way it did. The five ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  would end most days unhappy about how I had spent it. Many of the long ... snowboard. I went on long bike rides and appreciated how beautiful California ... myself and drive to it. Being long distance from my partner and most of my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  is the year long engineering leadership program for juniors, and it ... "]Harmonix[/annotation], Eran Egozy, and it's all about music and audio technology. The final ... it's a really fun and different class from any Course 6 class I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  taking so long meant that i was a bad person. i wondered how my friends ... ? or was it taught to them, and if so, when and how and by whom? i ... , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  lovely. it reminded me how much i love the people on my floor and how ... audiobooks. it sucks realized how thankful i am for my living environment at ... it happened again. after finishing my second round of midterm exams

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  , clinical research is quicker to application. It involves looking at how ... can’t really tell you much about how it’s going. To be continued. But ... now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  into my CPW experience - boy, was it an experience!! Being the eager ... my flight :( BUT I took it like a man, pulled out my macbook and played ... around at the airport can be a drag.. and having no one to talk to makes it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  Fauré and "It Takes Two" by Sondheim. https ... tenors, it ended up being a really pretty piece to sing. https://alan-z.herokuapp.com/static/sondheim.mp3 "It Takes Two" is a song from the musical Into the Woods by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  ? I don't really know either, and it's ben 35 minutes. That said, he ... shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... from other talks. It's a nice way to learn about miscellaneous topics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  enjoy it! however, seeing how many MIT students were on two or more dance ... have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  Hey, blogs. How ya doing? Long time no see... Or, I guess, write ... 'm far enough from MIT to understand how its pressures affected me, the ways it forced me to grow up, and how to pick a healthier path in the

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

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  not think I am. Does it really sound like I'm doing that much work ... majoring in biology." (That's actually a verbatim quote. Imagine it in a cool ... for them. Actually, they'll pay you! I mean, it's not a huge amount, but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005