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• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  undergraduate experience was cut short by COVID-19, and this was a good way to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  losing a year of my college experience to COVID-19. I'd trade literally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  I spent the last few days thinking about how I felt about the murder of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went to find…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  It's been about ten days since I came home from MIT after the great COVID-19 ensued. A lot of people have been saying this, but this week has felt like the longest week ever. I think it's mostly because we've been

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  , Katherine C. '19, Allan, Nia M. '20[/caption] Jebberwokey poem We recently

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  Hiiiiiiiiiiiii 好久不见朋友s I missed you guys. I really really really did (except for you… you know who you are…) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah, probably. I want to talk…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  Sondrio   Day 19: Final day, and I can confirm that time flies. My

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  I’m studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or more officially, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich!) It all happened very quickly. I first heard about the program during the…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so I thought I would…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  Personally, I have always considered myself a pretty social person. I have always loved just spending a bunch of time hanging out with friends and just kind of doing nothing…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San Francisco. Aside from one of those double-decker tour buses, I’d never spent time in the city before. Plus,…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven’t read Vincent’s amazing post “Black Lives Matter” (https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing pushups. Or they resemble my PE…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  “Yes I said etc…… Just don’t think about it to much (oh and I’m working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)”   I am not sure…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and half years and 3 billion miles later, it has reached its destination and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  the low, low price of $19.95 wasn’t enough to convince me that those

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  -tape tophat (and more, but my memory's going -- you know, once you turn 19 it

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... rowdy drinking his cocoa, doesn't he? It's a tradition. Sung '10 has an adorable hat and is saying something, probably, "It's Lauren '10's birthday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  , here goes: George L. '10, George W. '10, and DeRon '10, welcome to MIT ... . Heck, let's do it -- welcome Bashir '10, Cristen '10, Ploy '10, and Fernando '10 to MIT! On the topic of the reply form, we do expect to get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006