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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  high school self is yearning for the struggle at MIT. This struggle has ... ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to ... . When I entered MIT, I had a different name and went by different pronouns

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

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  story is not unique. Many of my friends at MIT are also on a similar ... asked ourselves at some point in our MIT adventure so far.  And I assure ... learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  syndrome is a thing in the real world, not just at MIT having a standing ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... "productive". feeling guilty about not being productive isn't healthy and is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  In case you haven't checked your MyMIT account lately, I thought I'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can ... 's 1999. Because this entry is the 1,999th MIT Admissions blog entry. Which

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  A great article about MIT Professor Erik Demaine in today's New York ... Institute of Technology, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of ... sheet of paper. He believes the form he is holding is a hyperbolic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the first Visual Arts @ MIT post, we talked about the various extracurricular ... MIT. In Visual Arts @ MIT part 2, we described our niche interests in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  : "MIT is a hard place, made all the harder for the resonant, omnipresent ... MIT needs. because the rest of the world is in desperate need of people ... Today, the Class of 2018 graduates from MIT.      

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  fide graduate, Berry remains active in the MIT community. He is on MIT ... from 160 MIT alums nominees, so to the 5-year term position is clearly an ... contribute to the evolution of MIT. He thinks that MIT is “true to itself

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  Scholar. This year's list of winners includes not one but two awesome MIT ... the MIT News Office story: Alia Whitney-Johnson, Leicester [North ... studies at Oxford. Matthew L. Gethers III, Waterbury [Connecticut], is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  true. MIT is just the beginning. Looking back at the past four years, I ... being on MIT's campus made me have a panic attack. It is overwhelming. Remember that when you're deciding if MIT is the right place for you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  What follows is a guest post from the Chop Stir Hack team. CSH is a new MIT ASA group that publishes a semesterly food magazine. It grew out of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around ... admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line. That your path isn’t something MIT sets you on, it’s something you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  episode is being advertised with the tag line, "Turn a Poker Dud Into a Five ... Science and Physics at MIT. After graduation, he took his skills to ... poker player and currently is an author. He has published three books and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  . I had forgotten how stressful of a place MIT could be, how much everything is thrown at you at once, even if you're intentionally about finding ... —that is, fast Fourier transforms in 6.046, adaptive learning in 6.810, amino

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  concentrate on assignment. Fail It is 2:34 am Eat breadsticks Try to ... assignment is worth 20% of your grade Panic You are a freshman this is

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  cappella is big at MIT - we've got the Logarhythms, Chorallaries, Toons ... A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  is an excellent running partner CPW 5K: Boston Marathon: Susan G ... forests of Santa Cruz, CA Back at MIT, we have taken PE yoga together ... time working than sleeping: But to answer your question, there is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  [ETA] THIS ARTICLE IS NOT TRUE. It's a joke created by The Tech ... the SATs (just by putting your name on it) is a 600, combined. My point is, don't take this seriously. Read it with a sense of humor. Call your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  pretty big sport at MIT. This is one of the few sports that you can just ... . For those of you who don't know, Head of the Charles, is a regatta where rowers from all over come to race down the Charles River. The MIT crew

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005