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• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  question, as we prepared for this move, was how to make this new building, at ... For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... -1931 MIT Bulletin, which instructs those who wish to petition for entry to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  (at least for another week) and I happen to know that MIT and others ... ruined it for me by pointing out that fireworks are a celebratory ... of my couch! Brazil for two months people. Eu vou trabalhar no

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  both here at MIT and beyond. For better or worse, these technologies are ... supposed implications for all forms of human text generation. For reasons that will soon become evident, I think most of this is at best overstated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said, East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... community that fits you. For this post on East Campus pros and cons, I asked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  is true that the white boys at my high school usually dated other white ... most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... immediately asked me about my “background”. I assumed he was asking for which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i ... easy for me to go into lab and spend all of my time there to run away ... friendships. but being a full-time lab rat as a coping mechanism comes at the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  when I slept for 14 hours a day and came out a mostly different person ... at the end of all this, I'll write them up and post them somewhere (on ... for this, and an MIT committee for that. I have a work standup, a sync

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  went to a sound check at 4:30ish for the song I actually led and put ... I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... ."][/annotation]   I impounded my robot and left Pappalardo at about 3:45pm

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  . This got me thinking: what would a success profile for an MIT student ... the past three years at MIT I've taken a good number of team ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  'll be working on corrosion resistant piping for oil and gas at TMK IPSCO ... community stay healthy, and even though I feel overwhelmed at times, I really ... clarify something about my path at MIT - I now know what I am concentrating

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  glasses. Just imagine James Bond at a cocktail party, waiting for just the ... with the Men In Black Headquarters, except without aliens (for now). Normally, I would be there for my Fundamentals of Computational Media Design

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment ... of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... 's just that Cambridge streets are really more paved for those with slightly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Crosswalk, and the Student Center). For those familiar with the area, it ... at MIT. As is often the case with one-person shows, Ms. De Cari was ... for the entire performance. It was fantastic. It was very real, not

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Course 2 or 6 major for the rest of eternity, or at least until someone ... the banner, for some unknown reason. Anyway, as much as I admire the ... 10) for 30 minutes, reverted to Mechanical Engineering (Course 2

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  departments hard at work and really got a feel for how much effort goes into ... a beauty or fashion magazine. If you take a look at any issue (whether ... , I'd highly encourage college girls out there to consider applying for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  study at MIT, what must be it be like for all these freshmen who grew up ... building that you'll probably go into for a class at MIT is called by number ... for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at ... yet. After that, I'll probably hang around for the so-called festivities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  for Cancer Research at the beginning of IAP and continued until the end ... . Students have the option of either staying at home/traveling/doing whatever ... opinion, one of the coolest times to be at MIT. By browsing the IAP

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review ... subtle ideas for science fiction movies is invaded in this film by an ... " column--and guess who he asked for scientific advice. Seeking an expert

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came ... a major at MIT my freshman year, I had come to believe that precision ... it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025