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• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any ... that I had already spent the right amount of time working on it. Since I ... . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge ... spread additional awareness of what MIT offers to help people on this day ... on Her Arms  - National Institute of Mental Health - National Suicide

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  charge of organizing all of the projects and events that have gone on this ... everywhere. Many of these are "early returns"—desperate to get on campus ... , they trade 8 hour-days of working on rush projects in exchange for free

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  my bed, or the precarious stack of volumes of Monster on my chest of ... "perfect" society. On a different end of the spectrum, The Disastrous Life of ... friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big ... though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Today marks the beginning of the glorious month known as IAP, which ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  to work on the design of the bin and later discovered the brilliant ... with trash: At our third session at at A New Day Cambodia, the team of ... technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  ="Hallmarks of Cancer"]7.45[/annotation] pset on epigenetics and cell death in ... planned better and been more on top of things, I would have been able to do ... conference [annotation note="in which the class of 2020 got on a boat and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  went on during IAP." noun -- the location of one's UROP "I'm on my way to ... leave it out at room temperature without fear of food poisioning. This new ... , endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  ). On a quick side note, I've noticed that a lot of people on tours love ... Library takes on a whole new use for students. No longer is it a place to ... Library is even one of the stops on the official MIT Napping Tour of Campus

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  -tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet ... coaster at East Campus, won a game of Scrabble, not done laundry, jumped on ... . Say I had to limit my inaugural entry to a mere 6 hours of my time on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I ... habit. Maybe it’s just the comfort of home. Who knows. But let’s fast

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class ... of time with my good friend Sarah, visit cool places in NJ, and go to ... , one of my good friends from high school, is visiting this weekend. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  hours of sleep than I could count on one hand. The other hand usually ... architect’s apprentice. Most of what I know of architecture I learned on ... Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  good idea. You know, one of these things: What I forgot was that the ... ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The New York Times wrote an article about us 5) The Livescribe company blog

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  based on the idea of having students with the same advisor live together ... on behalf of all the residents at Next. This semester Muriel added her ... , Next made me particularly unhappy because it comes with a side of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  members of the MIT community stood on Amherst Alley and Memorial Drive to ... June 2008 seemed an eternity away when I first arrived on MIT ... am: Ah, the bond of the brass rat: At 9:45ish, we began to leave

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  Hustling for the good life The bootstrapper who dreams of rising above their ... 24 hours ago, Taylor Swift came out with a new album and everyone ... right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  about Cambridge students is that few things stand in their way of enjoying ... . Last term, students hosted a Chinese New Year gala on a scale that we ... , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008