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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  ” because they own binary clocks and have memorized the first 100+ digits of ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than ... 've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them ... that?? is that even REAL??). All of our student EMTs are certified in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... losing the use of normal household items like your bed, table, television ... house. Just the thought of someone seeing your mess causes you great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  ’m proud to be part of the FLI (first-generation, low-income) community. I ... In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  amusing photo, is an annual party, held the first weekend in May every year ... , backed up by Campus Police. My good friend Erik '09 was the head of ... . Miller '07 in the mud pit at Senior Haus' Steer Roast. The match ended in a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  in the basement of E18. HQ will be staying open for at least several ... 7 to begin the hunt [12:48 PM] Now in Baker starting to solve the ... : toomuchclue Password: baker362 [1:04 PM] FIRST PUZZLE SOLVED AT 1:05 PM. Solved

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about ... for my Lyft in the frigid parking lot of Boston Logan airport, my friend ... for me to get back. Over the course of the last semester, my room has

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... friends for four or five years now. The first observation he makes upon ... you've looked like before and inform you of the change now. Another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally ... to find stuff to do. Solace came in the form of a very pretty asian

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... with your interviewer to send us an extra (first?) copy of your interview ... a bit of all three. But the numbers all point in one direction: you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  from the Part 2 of the application, except that we're only looking ... Report deadline of February 15th. This is okay. You should choose the ... Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates and Notes Form is now

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... start with things that have remained the same since I left MIT. My love of ... shell. I had developed a real confidence in my self for the first time in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  % of students got their first choice in the summer lottery and 26% got ... choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... usually due around the third week of June. Late July -- Housing lottery

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  ’t even noticed that i’d been enforcing the implicit constraint of only ... this state of being is actually fairly similar to the previous one ... the extra work i was doing was worthwhile? i invented a lot of answers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... pool. 2005: Excellent, and better than the majority of people who were ... class of 530, because I didn't want to play the "take all AP classes and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous ... how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  . I made a little video of the event. Here are the highlights. Enjoy ... Last week, I attended the MUSE Colloquium hosted by MIT’s NSBE Chapter at the Black Students Union on campus. NSBE is a wonderful

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  of family here, people who really understand you for the first time ... problem together, first you need to find a partner whose level of ... out the pitfalls of others. It seems like working with other people

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  new goodies. The first, and most notable, is the glasses-free 3D top ... one of your eyes, creating a 3D image. The 3D is cool, but irrelevant ... ) abilities. With a certain predefined image displayed in front of the 3DS

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011