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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks that are going to…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  This semester has been weird for me. On one side I am for all intents and purposes I am a junior, a 2020. I will not be graduating until 2020,…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking about reading The New Yorker so…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  Moments ago, at 6PM Eastern Time, we released, via email, our decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you did not receive…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

    Avengers: Endgame opened the weekend before last, and with it, so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday evening, or early Sunday morning (it’s always hard…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo. 13 Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the bottom of building 3. It's also…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It’s incredibly easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept, money earned and spent (mostly spent).…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

    Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane’s window, a shy, tanned girl arrived looking from left to right trying to find something she’d recognize.   But the…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  Earlier today, we completed and released our decisions for transfer applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2019. You may access your decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I’m sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were, tbh, since I…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Jojopost A collection of emails

  

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • May 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me. Graduating Early We are within…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   “When I’m in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I’m in Palestine, I listen to the blues.” — Nida Sinnokrot, Palestine…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a prospective 2023’s message expressing hesitation about choosing MIT. I think a lot of ppl are concerned…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough seconds to annoy caleb⁠35 my roommate as i go back to sleep without even thinking. eventually,…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  the fall 2019 catalog was released recently, perhaps yesterday, and already i’ve seen my friends planning out their fall semesters on firehose for lack of better things to do. michael…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  It so happened that my younger sister got accepted into the Class of 2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided to do…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  You guessed it, I’m finally: And because there are literally so many, so so so many blog posts that talk about the tradition of the MIT brass rat, the ring…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  Spring is here, which means we are nearing the end of Kresge lawn torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit with an onslaught…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you can now drink that special fermented beverage that has basically been available to everyone in most other countries since…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019