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• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  of mine moved farther to get a better school-life separation, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  this short, wonderful documentary. If it doesn't change your life, it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... guaranteed in life, least of all admission to selective programs. But when I ... took that risk. Life is much, much more than admissions, decisions, or

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  has. The earliest post I can find that was centrally "about" LGBTQ+ life ... other posts about LGBTQ+ life, culture, and events at MIT. But, despite ... significant gap between life as lived at MIT and life as represented on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D ... where I UROP in real life and Chris was once a research assistant. I had ... amazing video magic to bring our abstract concepts to life. It was strenuous

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  't seem like there was ever a big identity WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE ... observatory, and figured that I could lead a joint research/outreach life - do ... would spend my ENTIRE LIFE conflicted, and as a result never actually

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  capital to expand its underdeveloped social life. Several visionary ... rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship ... traced back to the early student life of MIT’s dormitories. In particular

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  Prize-winning Humanities professors as it does Nobel Prize-winning Physics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  life today that still has hope for tomorrow.   (Follow-up post to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  got to watch every cultural stereotype of the city come to life. Yes, the city never sleeps. Yes, it throbs with life. Yes, a good number of ... Life steps on the brakes, and the car screeches and you just have to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  caveats: There’s more to life than grad school. And college. And school ... other way around for life sciences PhD programs). I applied to mostly bio ... life. Some people go to grad school just because they can, or because it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... important, some greater, grand life lesson that I hope to carry with me into ... life. freshman spring: i am not the person that i was I've mentioned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  and life stories, they reassured me that the choice to stop had been a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I ... again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new ... surprised by the fractal nature of life -- there’s the world in all its

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week, disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved – it couldn’t just have been you who did…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  particularly dark and volatile period of my life, I am grateful that it shaped me ... bystander effect is real. Like, in real life and not just in psychology ... give yourself a better life, what is the point if you’re not healthy and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Class Supper titled “The Pin” with the tagline “I do not set my life at a ... became a noted professional genealogist. Later in life, Holman went into ... Hartford District Committee for MIT alumni. Holman’s life is the dream for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  color... And what if one day, a bright, red apple falls into your life ... , economic development. If race has never affected your life so intimately, it ... , because it has never fallen into your life--or it appears so rarely, you may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  name onto the survivor board (“better survival rate than life”****). The ... have it). **** Quite possibly the most terrifying moment of my life (I ... my real on-campus MIT social life on the east side, East Campus is full

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015