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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... near campus, and we talked about the past three years (after working ... -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of ... the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to MIT, but you haven't paid a dime or picked a class yet. The biggest

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  blog topic before I put it on the internet. I still mostly agree with ... are even a little bit complete!  I'm thinking about all the blogs that ... , a New Years blog, a blog from the beginning of junior fall where I

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  mileage may vary. Take advantage of the craft room Ideas! Paint ... something modular!), or create a gift with the yarn and fabric supplies. Make fancy desserts in the dining hall Because if I’m paying that much

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  This is a blog by Monica C. ‘25 about her experience on the MIT ... post of his own about his time on the team, so now we’re bringing it full circle 😊. You can learn more about the team at https

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off at MIT, my mom couldn’t contain her tears. Holding my hand, she was the ... tighter, as if enough pressure would coax the misery out, but, for all she

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  alarm.  11:30 — I slowly get up while cursing at the world. This term ... last term, and the term before that, and also everything that’s happened since the second term of freshman year. Of course, I have by now missed my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first time as a prospective student. In light of it being the night before CPW ... :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  quite enough. By the point I was halfway through trying to woo the places ... that I wouldn’t be too disappointed when it came true.   “Shut the ... . MIT was my dream. Between the being able to make whatever you want and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  another blog, so for now, let us get on with the content. Each class year ... merch, and does general stuff for the class. I, for some reason, ran my ... , for the most part, a good time, but sometimes it can be a bit tiring

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  two weeks ago i was walking through the infinite corridor at night ... open stores and the outdoors; this is mostly true for adults as well, except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards ... requirements this semester, breaking the record for the most number of math

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  have mandatory lectures at the same time, but if I push back class B to ... whether you’re a major/minor. But the specifics and exactly when you’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours right before were full -- packing, friends, watching the sunrise, goodbyes ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  , whether physical or virtual. Capturing the absolute batshit random stuff ... , is one of the things that keeps everybody laughing through the pain that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... that every applicant receives the individual attention they deserve; we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E&M. 8.021 was the best decision I've made this semester! I enjoy 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is ... 'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up ... extremely[annotation note='(adj.) bogged down in work. comes from the phrase

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  post, we talked extensively about all the visual arts related things we ... ! We talked mainly about the extracurricular ways that we have engaged ... ] figured out that our career goal is to work in the Animation Industry, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to lots of East African classics in line with my project theme which was the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020