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  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Additionally, no matter where you live or what your major is, MIT students can ... a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  culture at MIT. Considering that the workload here is commonly referred to ... entrepreneur to have some side hustles at MIT. Unfortunately, the only blog ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  about her depression experience at MIT, and I truly think that she beautifully describes IHTFP at MIT. I hope this post touches you like it did for ... while observing Mass Ave. The street was busy as usual, with MIT students

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... videos on mitguidetoresidences.mit.edu Visit all dorms. Even if you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT ... and parsed all the emails that had been sent to my MIT email address. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... love the MIT Student Center bubble tea best!).    Faneuil Hall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  at MIT, or, my falls were always better, at least. I find that by the ... learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... drop date. I came into MIT with a lot of hopes and ideas of what I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  decision from MIT, and I hadn't made it. I am just replying on this old email ... studying amateur Astronomy. I always wanted to come to MIT and be an ... tough, too much work load etc etc. I would still regularly follow Mit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  intro Gloria: Contrary to popular belief, MIT students actually do exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT ... MIT dorm gyms GOOD: The BC gym is new and clean (post-remodel!), with

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... reference, the undergraduate population of MIT is only 4,602, of which 1 ... , these students had a presence in MIT’s hallways. In the same way that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  . ']MIT admitted its first woman: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards.[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments.  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled ... , there will be some fire, courtesy of the MIT Spinning Arts Club performance

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep ... people from your high school know about MIT? What made you decide to come ... and I said "MIT," I got a lot of blank looks. My school was in a small

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  . The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if that's the only thing on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010