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• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  dropped, which will they be? On MIT's application you'll have to remember ... do just for fun, which was actually one of the harder things to write ... to college is as meaningful for you as it was for me. A big part of the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student ... welder which is akin to a massive, bright solder. Your hands and arms are ... cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... the latest tides of prefrosh, but nonetheless I do want to totally sound like Oprah's novelist of the month right now. Here it is: every sentence

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  requirements to complete to graduate on time. This list included 6.00, or ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... of which were 6.0002. One of the four was 6.009, the second class in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best ... and Wyoming to be in attendance. I was lucky to have a great group of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to ... ….why did I come here? 1. tO eXplOrE It is often said that “college is the ... manpower (turns out it is A LOT of work to pick, gut, and transport all the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ?!? which is a patently inferior term. i refuse to use that name, so i will ... , chasing the aurora at Tufts on a random Thursday. Each of these memories is ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... only the biggest releases, like Fanaa (which I saw this weekend), or the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  evidence of other kinds of challenges which could lead to job opportunities ... love to see and hear about all the cool things offered to students or ... made my first real visit to the Edgerton Center. The atmosphere is lively

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular ... from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a ... moved that he brought it to Star Trek. For those of you who don’t know

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  hand accounts of start up days (Amazon, Akamai), or amazing histories of ... . With a collection of almost 400 videos, it's a little daunting to pick one to be the first one to reflect on in this new forum. So, I thought

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT ... form of a TA or professor is not available: we wander through the living ... . We teach classes on topics of our choice to middle and high school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  music elements to jazz--or vice versa, depending on your point of view. I ... was in the presence of a true artist. He wasn't there to busk or beg, or ... out who this guy is. As he sat down to expertly roll a loose

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  found out that 2 MIT alums created this set of video games based on different books. They're actually part of an exhibit  on campus called Games by the Book, which can be found on the second floor of Hayden library

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  -dead, "I get better every single day..." My roommates and I decided to join ... like. It was advertised pretty strongly to freshmen, which was why Sarah ... been before, as a frequenter of [annotation note="the other libraries on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  deadlines. The only struggle is picking something to do. With so many good ... decision. I tend to go to bed pretty early these days, which precludes me from going to the types of social events that are just barely getting

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the ... , you add me to your list of friends on Thefacebook ;) Your important ... . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of ... luck on finals! The reason I'm writing this entry is that by now, those ... general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... divorce and freedom of speech, one or both of which might sound completely ... 22nd line of the poem, Milton calls on God to bless his work: "What in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the ... probably in a month or so). Fencing is so fun! I like it a lot. I hope to ... 'll flake on it. But some of the things I really, really want to blog about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020