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• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  first year at MIT, but I feel less excited and more dissatisfied about the ... new people and hang out with old friends, out of the fear that they won ... comeback in all of my classes in the latter half of the semester. Even then

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  picture. The first is that because of the angle you can't see me. I promise ... not know, dances are not my scene. One of the stereotypes at MIT is that ... and putt-putt-putted away from the dock. A bunch of us went to the upper

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  than 50% of college assaults happen in the first six weeks of the fall ... dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... 'll say my spiel anyways. Freshman fall is kind of a shitshow. In the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... guaranteed admission, then be one of first to solve this year's HackMIT puzzle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... . One of those people was/is Christina Couch, a recent alumna of the ... ) immediately below.   Last September, at the height of election fervor, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... see Brokeback Mountain last night, and it was really one of the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... residents—we were notified of his death before the rest of campus was, early ... –8 students, and we stay in these teams the whole semester. it’s a discussion

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  the middle of early apps) where I can find more information? My book is ... ?" I think you mean the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and ... have had MAJOR syllabi changes(going from ICSE to CBSE in the middle of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2012!), that ... you can. This way, we can ensure the fairest treatment of waitlisted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  for the first two and a half years of undergrad. Then a series of random ... the most successful instances of blog-based manifesting I've ever seen ... plan to do research at the intersection of Robotics and AI. You and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  perplexingly, the tip of the slice always flops down and [annotation note="This was exactly what happened the first time I had a slice of A4 pizza three ... , as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... many filler words—I think like 5% of what I said was just the word “like ... angles, or getting decent lighting. So all of the technical aspects are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  —then spend dozens of hours refining even the smallest details. For my first few ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in ... my horizons and get out of my comfort zone. Over the past three years

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper ... disorienting, suffered the raw heat of August sunlight during Susan Hockfield ... would tomorrow lose the ability to put food between slices of bread. “Year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  of people trying on VR for the first time. It's always a magical moment ... first batch in summer 2017. Each of them will get hands-on mentoring as ... , MIT Class of '92, is running the show. I haven't met him, but he's a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... Extraordinaire 7) Matt 8) Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment (And I'm taking the ... if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Often I don't even

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  between classes, say, from the first floor of building 1 to the second floor ... the stairs down to the first floor of building 10 and then walk to ... , to get from the first floor of building 1 to the second floor of

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

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... your first MIT friends! Discover your “mini-MIT away from MIT.” The get-together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super ... that approximately one-third of all of the students we admitted would ... choice for yourself. This isn't the end of the road, and I hope you'll feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006