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• 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 / 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 / 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

  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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These ✨but i wasn't✨

  

  ="aligncenter" width="432"] oh my god is one of its arms coming OUT of its pecs?? ok well im too lazy to go back and edit it now[/caption] [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  determines the future, it never does so determinatively. That we make the ... from its past.         This morning ... turned out like the past thought it would.     Watching that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  hours are primarily for clarifying pset problems and wonder how it’s even ... of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice rink, a track, and a basketball court; over 4000 students attend. It

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  interspersed throughout the week. Other than how long they were held, they were ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for ... , pounding self-consciousness of how hard it is. This semester more than most ... when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  realizing that any of this would take as long as it did, we were running 45 ... a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used ... reminded me how beautiful it is to be human. Amidst all his projects, Hank ... always say (sometimes after a long sigh) “Everybody’s themselves.” It’s

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  convince me of how easy it was to cross-register, since she had a pretty good ... - like Sam, who does a beautiful Flight of the Conchords impression, or ... popped, it's been feeling pretty starchy as of late. Going to Harvard as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  how it's my sophomore spring. I'm only have two more IAPs, two more fall ... My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it ... those feelings to the side, but now that spring classes have started, it

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  advice, no matter your experience and how different it was from mine. To ... social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you should be elated -- but it's also complicated, and really difficult, when

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  were both sick, had a super long and challenging 6.00 pset (literally ... to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am the night before it was due), Danny had a CMS.100 essay, Allan had a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... of unshakable resolve in the face of insurmountable odds. It is, in ... how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014