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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... , or maybe I'm more apathetic than the average person in the face of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first ... where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence halls are available on the Housing site.
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  it reminds me of why I do hackmit in the first place <3 [caption id ... Shrey! The first day of Blueprint is now completed. I have to admit ... means a few things: spring is coming up 1/6th of the year has gone

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El ... family! El oso y el madroño: the mascot of Madrid At first I was hesitant ... experiences so far at MIT. For the first nineteen and a half years of my life, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  long exposure). For the second half, we learned the whole process of ... first place: the rub of charcoal on skin, the choke of woven fibers, the ... Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and ... students. the discussion of how to create housing groups was an anxiety ... very lazy person in terms of meeting people—thanks to the pandemic—so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  producing stuff for social media—and “stuff” is all kinds of stuff. The first ... making it into a Twitter, uh, thing. One group is doing the first season of ... tweeting as if they are going through the first season of Battlestar

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the ... ’ve always dreamed of (and, no doubt, the one everyone *expects* you to have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  be fun, and you'll get to meet all of the students you've been reading ... some pictures from the past week over the next couple of days as sleep ... Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... newness wore off faster and faster, until by the end of the first week of ... July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  the summer, I did a philosophy UROP with my advisor. One of my first ... only digging up enough energy to do a tenth of the first one. This is ... because I know the consequences of settling in. Because that’s what you do

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  would typically just dub, ignore, let sink into the crumbling abyss of my ... -40 hours per week. But getting a glimpse of the 360 Photography Class on the ... announcement email[/caption] The prospect of getting to fiddle with technology

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  to be one of the most stressful movies I’ve ever seen, and the first ... difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across ... of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  as your grade for the whole class. Seems kind of risky, but maybe ... week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B ... assignment. In general, I find that professors are understanding of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  the game crash at this point?  3 people. The first was, of course, Blue ... Golden Ratio, It’s the first three digits. I just kind of picked something ... I Love Tetris.  I think it was the first videogame I ever played at

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... lecture hall Sleep before midnight on most days of the week Don’t lose ... photographing Boston Ride the full length of the Red Line Attend all the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  first floor of the Student Center and stayed there for two weeks! The ... , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... of STEM that goes on, but we were not so aware of the vibrant art

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first ... some of the first government-sponsored adoption of blockchain technology ... ideas and research. Hassan embodies the spirit of risk-taking and acting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018