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• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  't know what that means but I do know that their first year they made a ... Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad Ideas Contest. Click around on there I don't think it's a secret. Two

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  generic meal plans like most other schools do, but instead have a sort of ... . (What more do college students want?) I'm a big fan of Alpine Bagel in the ... thing I want to do is leave to go to a dining hall. Hooray for food!

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do ... : Physics C- Mech: 5 Physics C- E/M: 5 I...am at a loss for words. I have absolutely NO IDEA how this happened. I think somebody made a mistake. *grin* I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  've been having a crisis about what I really want to do. Urban planning is ... , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... anywhere (e.g. "I'm not actually gonna get there tomorrow because something--a ... [/annotation]--will stop this trip from happening), so actually leaving and having a life

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  . In fact, some states were so thin that one could cross them in a day ... they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 ... excited. I haven't gone more than 20 miles in a day in... ah... I'm counting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  period of time. If you do bring a “show-and-tell” object, though, make ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... some advice from a current interviewer named Nikki Springer. Here are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  semester to do so. But this is a great class. Honestly one of the hardest ... media for the way that it is and do a 'haha superhero cool brain off', it ... also do a blogpost on this class so I won't go too much into it, but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is make sure everything is ... lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to ... Life has drastically changed in the past few months. You’re in a ... ’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling ... night before. It's a well-kept secret. But I have proof. Behold the two ... 7, 2011 : Take note (ahaha) of a few things: 1.) The reason you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  birdIt's ten o'clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never tellHow do you ... , baby, now and then Don't you just wanna wake up, dark as a lake?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a ... ’s the perfect size for my A5 notebook, and that one’s big enough to hold my winter jacket… Each one just a little different, just enough to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  you inspired for a spoOOoky time at MIT! #1 – Pretend you go to a ... : Could be a challenge if you don't know any other places that aren ... : (Whether it's a scream of joy or anguish is a different question.) #3 – The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  life, if doing so is practical, but for day-to-day commutes, I'm having a ... in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT ... crowd. At MIT, the First Gen Program is a tight community, and it always

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

    Retaking the GRE ten days ago (and doing a little better than the first time ... attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no ... really liked a lot of the songs, and dance numbers. Memory was amazing, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and decided to walk to Trader Joe's to do my grocery shopping. There's two ... say is honestly pretty reasonably-sized for a grocery store). As I left

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  to mix it up with doing my work. Boston is really a cool city, and I am ... Without a doubt, I think every student here can agree that problem sets take a significant portion of their time throughout the week. Here

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017