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• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  gain some new perspective, then get down on the floor with a bunch of ... , which was already late on day two of school. “Hey, instead of doing ... be in charge of what you want to do. And that on the flip side of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  apartment) and on my way back, ran into the biggest protest I have ever seen ... of Breonna Taylor on my newsfeed, in an effort to preserve my mental ... , that weight of injustice crushed down on me, and I watched those people

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  talk to me, none of that would have happened. I never was good at ... even in the cool loner way, regardless of how I played it off. It took ... cry on. Find someone who's more of a quiet loner than you. They

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing ... Here is a picture of Allan's room, snipped from here: He left this morning: Although we seem to be interconnected in almost every way

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  provides a good amount of flexibility, some students do other things that ... versions of: 8.01: Physics I (the Concourse version is taught by a good ... Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  Beautiful New England Homes, a hodgepodge of color and character Some homes ... once rode my bike to the Square. And decided to walk the rest of the way ... of the New England homes I referred to: the ubiquitous [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... , but still well above our pre-pandemic baseline of ~9,000 EA applications ... Class of 2026, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  Facebook that I clicked on while bored. But this is what I get out of ... rest of the day in a bathrobe with my cat on my lap, reading weird ... instead of hunched over a table, or riding on someone's shoulders while

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the ... a lot of lacquer. I put a Union Jack on my helmet and was really ... front may or may not be the CEO of Hasbro ;) On a sidenote, we made a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT ... that reminds you of home. Your dorm is your new home for the next eight

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  "][/annotation] i miss the tower of plushies on the beanbag. i miss that there would ... note="one of the largest lecture halls on campus"]26-100.[/annotation] i ... have taken so for-granted before. and even on top of that, the math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too ... process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  but then realizing that there’s lots of food just as good as pizza and ... , the listener, the reader, an idea of what it's like to be in MIT. Good ... 't that bad. That was one of my last reservations about committing to MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... bajillion cats (SO MANY KITTENS RIGHT NOW). But a time-honored tradition of East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  involved screenwriters on crack who have no judge of what movies the public ... . Smelling good can make up for a lot of shortcomings, as shallow as this ... band on the way to their seats, so I gave a percussionist a small

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on ... with. It is definitely a different type of hands-on learning that teaches ... sciency version of a Willy Wonka lab. Next week, I will begin testing on my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  homework, and it changes regularly throughout the year. Currently written on ... telling you about my bitterness? Because it's an important part of my life. No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , so I've moved on to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ... on something with one of my best friends, Steven T. '20. It's been my ... I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  under the Great Sail on my way to class every morning, because I think it ... appeared on the 2005 Advanced Placement English Language and Composition test, in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they ... purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the ... the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005