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• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  fit various classes and how best to shape my time at MIT to fulfill ... term how different my ultimate choice will be, but let's just say that ... the real You in your essays and in your apps as a whole. It's okay to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot of people ask me whether it’s hard to be pre-med at MIT, particularly ... . MIT forced me to figure out, early in my undergrad career, how I should

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring ... random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind ... The Oatmeal argues that we should call it Bartolomé Day instead, because

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  clarify: it’s not really the circus hosting that we look forward to. It’s ... actually seen the elephants. I don’t think I even knew it was going on my ... booking it out of our class so we could catch the elephants walking down Mem

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  . But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals week for the fall semester. Here's how the bloggers (most of whom have ... -mates' alarms rang...It all felt like a movie-moment: everyone preparing for war

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  very many people in the class (it was ~200, at a time when 3.091 had so ... same applied for 7.013 in the spring. Alright - to be honest - it isn ... to do it again, I would do 5.111 in the fall and 7.013 in the spring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  as the novel (you know how it goes), but it's still worth watching. ... , bad one.) The timing of the talk wasn’t great; it started at 7 pm ... forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... , we have an Operator (inspired by the Matrix). It's the Operator's job

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  't know how other teams are doing, but I think the puzzles this year are ... sticks, and Gatorade, nothing seems to be working. Funny part of it is that ... the puzzle from &#%% and for your reading enjoyment, I'll post it here

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  , including a crabcake, which makes me wretch because it's crab, but everything ... really needed to get started with before Friday and almost no time to do it ... 's speech because you have too much homework to do. It was cool, though. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  are all very welcome. I hope it helped you chill a little about the ... you get to college. =) Also, Sam asked: "I just wanted to know how MIT ... , and I hope it treated everyone well! A couple of entries ago I told you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  was this weekend. As I was writing it, I realized how interesting my ... Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  't know how we pulled it off. This is what Crystle's and my room looked ... painter and it wasn't going well - and the more I realized that it was going ... to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  it's Thanksgiving break. Next week will be absurdly busy, and I am not looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a ... sunset1, overlong reading list; it was bound to happen. Here are some

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  how to switch sections from afternoons to evenings because it conflicted ... syrup. I don't really know how to describe it, but it's amazing. Hot ... I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... sort of conflicted about whether or not I should do it anyway, because I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  processor. Let's call it a "Time Experiment" and pretend we know what we ... in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of ... awesome. Ten out of ten would sit in it again. And since Hayden is so, Empty

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  background of this issue or how it's currently being solved, but this ... it's accurately predicting how the basis of most microbiology folds and ... It was inevitable. My MIT prophecy has been fulfilled. There was no

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... possibilities. I am from radios blaring and pop music, And no, it is not too ... had to be even-ish, every line had to start with a capital letter, it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  of us had any idea of how we would really accomplish it. We could ... ’t threaten your own chance of success, they enhance it. In many cases, what ... that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018