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• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  course has a reputation for being one of the most impactful courses you can ... 'll form the relevant neural pathways to be able to readily recall this ... for burying a highway and putting a park on top of it (gross

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  not be the most effective allies. It can be tough to feel comfortable in communities where you feel like the main educator. "Even MIT can be rough. Not ... Lounge, or you can even just drop by during the day and chat with the staff

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  the bottom and blue-green water on top. As a born and bred Jersey girl ... number on the door. "Wait...this is the room that Rob and David lived in ... entirely be covered by furniture, and defeat the purpose of the half-and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website ... it's like to be the person on the other end of the line when you place ... so I can talk and type at the same time and feel super cool. I log

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  on the same sign, together, you can bet that there's some serious stuff ... MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  Campusers on Killian Court. We always win, so be smart and fight for the ... theme is “Wild Wild West” and we plan to deliver on this - come to the ... ! (Grill and chill and build on the booklet): Every REX, East Campus has a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  Naviance/Docufide, the MIT cover sheet would need to be scanned in and then ... below and on the cover sheet. Please use only one method; duplicate ... school letterhead and signed by the evaluator. Teacher letters not on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  emphasize finger / toe structures so that they can land on the ground and take ... should pay attention to how you land on your heel and the transitions from ... can be dangerous the second main takeaway is that arm energy

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  presented this topic time and time again, I focused almost entirely on the ... large piece of paper and a Sharpie. Trying to hang up this paper on the ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  and blogging about my projects. I never thought MIT would be the ... ........ It can be in the most seemingly insignificant places that you will find ... that. I may be on a different track but my art lives on and my writing is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  words, a quick laugh in the hallway. Having them notice you seems to be of ... memories in the parks and on the streets, in a hall at MIT where conversations can last forever, and the city glitters across the Charles river

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  title wouldn't fit on the image below. Paper and pencil Antiquated, I ... through handwritten notes, and (2) you can stop being paranoid about losing ... .  Equations, diagrams, and graphs are no fun to try to reproduce on a laptop or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  's blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own groceries can be ... can save time and money in the grocery store. Know how much food costs ... live on west campus, you can take the Tech Shuttle. Grocery Stores

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with the Hokies. Looking back, Campus Preview Weekend was awesome and I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ’s Sunday morning now, daylight savings time is weird) on the 6th floor of the ... fraternity/sorority and don’t have big productions to put on for your ... recruiting. To the people who are being recruited: Impressionable freshmen or

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be ... 's Walls: Tools, Services and Solutions (You may remember the affair someone

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  needed to be shot on actual campus with actual drones and actual tubes. So ... final cut on March 5th and let the video fly free like so many tube ... figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  bottle at the water fountain by the elevator on 4W and then shove it in my ... 'm a little behind schedule, so I run down the stairs and quickly make my ... , such as the institutional memories of clubs and organizations on campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of ... and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  presented to the US Department of Energy by our professor. How bad can that be ... 'll be reading Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig on my overnight redeye (or are those two things mutually exclusive?). Catch you on the East Coast

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007