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• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... 's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  culinary horizons!) Work Next week is my last week in the lab (which is to ... about 80 to go. And then, I have to manipulate the data in Excel so I can ... the things you have to do in science are brain-liquefyingly, eye

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  like I was in a snippet of Groundhog's Day. By journaling, I was able to ... in time. Every now and then, I go back and read past entries to remind ... juxtaposition in my use for MyFitnessPal from this year to this year is quite

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat ... went to Chameleon on a special day when walk-ins were allowed (normally ... piercer named Owen. He allowed Priscilla and I to be in the piercing room

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me ... . i skimmed through many iterations of "a pleasure to have in class" and ... didn’t want to spoil it for anyone. in my last group therapy session

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  . Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds: community ... coursework, as well as co- and extra-curricular opportunities in your areas of interest. In other words, you should choose a college that will be a good fit
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... they are of value to us in the process. A number of students called me

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... users in Kenya (our current market) to travel the long distances (30 km, in some cases!) to work, a task made difficult by non

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  've been able to explore the snow in my hideous moon boots to discover: 1 ... significant chunk of the institute came out to wade knee deep in snow to pelt ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  things that matter to me i never would've expected. in particular, what ... , almost everyone i know is in it. you don't have to figure out where you ... say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  ), please contact Michael Yang in the Admissions Office to request the extension, and be sure to also be in touch with your financial aid officer ... the day by which admitted students need to let colleges know their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the ... love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the ... you must get in touch with your alumni interviewer by October 20th to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in ... , where every school in the entire county has been closed. San Diego County ... have been destroyed. From myself and all of my colleagues in Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  to pass someone who is driving in your own passing lane (which is ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a ... engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you ... Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their ... three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... . Despite not having registered in advance like we were supposed to ... getting in,[/annotation] and when we got to the courtyard we found that the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell ... it must be continually stirred; otherwise, it starts to congeal in a ... lay hidden in its maze of cobbled passageways. In addition to the other

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one ... seconds. My luck in airports is notoriously crappy. To celebrate, I went to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009