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• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  webcast screen that looked something like this: It featured live video and chat with our admissions staff, as well as a backchan.nl instance

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  caught up on all the sleep I missed during term (for some reason, while I'm on campus, I have trouble sleeping more than 8 or 8 and a half hours ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are ... . That your path isn’t something MIT sets you on, it’s something you make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  organization on Harvard's campus. The shelter is in the basement of the ... rectangular block of a tower. When we pushed the basement door open and found ... , including two girls who help supervise volunteers. They had us play a name

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Where can I find parent info?

  We understand that helping your child find the right college is a daunting task and that many things have to be considered. We have information and advice that we hope you find helpful on our For parents page.  
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  This past Thursday on my birthday my floor BMF organized that week ... which here means “falling asleep with my laptop open.”) I got in on Pi ... , my family and friends, working hard on something I care about

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San Francisco. Well, I lived in Manila, as much as I've lived in Boston and San

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in ... , everyone sporting Rush T-shirts from years past; on the back of each shirt is ... observed but did not participate in. I swung on a rope swing and stacked milk

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  at a stretch at home, laid on the couch all day, caught up on the ... living I didn't realize existed before this month. Here are some of the ... explored the Central Branch's incredibly beautiful 19th-century architecture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just ... people i’ve ever met at coming up with extended verbal arguments on the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  perils of living on her own, arming her with a plethora of trash bags ... , which are then modeled on our runway. Trashion was founded in 2011, is an annual event run by the MIT UA Committee on Sustainability.   I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  like I’m on top of my work and can keep everything under control. This semester I loaded up on project classes. All three of my technical classes ... a presentation for my French class on an influential author and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  I interviewed my roommate Dora ’18 about her day today and here is a ... at 10. We got out like half an hour early so I just sat on a random ... catchy. I helped Kelly with some 18.03, painted my nails, and then now you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  it. We think it would have helped middle school Allan and Danny to read ... want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York ... .  During this time, we were on a waitlist for a charter elementary school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... MIT. I've talked about the MIT Bubble on the blogs before, but damn...my experience living here for the summer only proves that I didn't take advantage

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  energy on campus right now is absolutely amazing. The Infinite Coordidor is ... -frosh again. (Almost.) Personally, today has already been even slightly more ... ;) - and today we'll be discussing Sinclair Lewis' "Great American Novel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  [annotation note="the newly renovated library located on the east side of campus ... the next few days. surviving on snacks and free food scavenged from ... consume so many episodes on a 'school day'. the next day, which was the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  answers down on paper because I had given up on actually understanding it ... about having my technical focus being on this one class is that I can actually focus on it. There’s a term in psychology called attention residue

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  left my dorm. there was so much going on all the time that I didn ... , however, I spent a good chunk of my free time exploring Boston, and made a few weekend trips to New York. these helped me realize how feasible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  , and they gave us each a card with our name and super powers on it. My ... camera!" Every semester on the Sunday before finals week, my hall also ... . So it became, "Cookies and Little Prince."  Some people insisted on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014