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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  describe the unveiling of 2008 Brass Rat. Brass Rat? That's right, MIT has ... brass plated in the MIT Lab for Metallurgy. Just kidding! ('ll be here all ... been an MIT tradition since 1929, which was also when Class President C

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and ... to experience Interphase EDGE/x, or live on Conner 2, or host an adMIT ... to help our students communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  means to an end, many seem to have lost the plot. At MIT, we are mission ... problems, although the full Mission Statement reads… “The mission of MIT is ... knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. MIT is dedicated to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  many projects in my life. While MIT students have IAP in January and take ... capsule at this point in my post-yet-kind-of-not-post-MIT journey. Also, as ... still love dearly and stay in touch with.']my closest friends from my MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... pack into Kresge, MIT’s largest auditorium, with overflow rooms and a live webcast, and covered by MIT News, the Boston Globe, and other media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to figure out which of these came from cj and which ones came from vincent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  failed that wasn't at MIT was my driver's test."]I don't have to drive ... I know that the probability of every incoming student at MIT having ... frustration on my notes. When MIT websites don't work You ever hate it when

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  in September. I asked her how MIT felt. For the first time, I didn ... changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... reflection of MIT windows not who I want to see? Is who I was before not good

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT ... ?[/annotation] I mean, MIT is objectively great. Now that’s not to say it’s perfect ... a place a great place, MIT checks off a lot of those boxes. With that

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  A while back I gave a presentation at MIT called Three Epiphanies and ... answer because, quite frankly, MIT is just a place. Nothing more, nothing ... created by the denizens of MIT, and my goal as a member of this community is

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  his sweater already, mom's spaghetti. He's nervous about opening the MIT ... these avid readers of the blogs, and I didn't hear much about MIT before ... someone gossiping about how their friend's kid got into MIT. I knew it was a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  [annotation note="I like taking the free shuttle from MIT to the Cambridge

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  Heyo everyone! It's Mimi again! I recently became a member of MIT ... 'm focusing on is Splash. If you don't know, Splash is basically MIT students ... MIT, how time flies!) I did a game design class, early solar system

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  in the pictures. As is MIT tradition, the ... makes MIT unique, and it's disappointing (to me, at the very least) how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset ... about why they’re here, at MIT. To talk about their dreams and aspirations

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... ; MIT kids spotted in an unnatural habitat       get u

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  shared a guest post by Sam U. '16 about how MIT helped him launch his ... to improve one's productivity. I love using MIT products, especially ... experiences balancing the startup life with his MIT life.   When I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  Have Without Their Own Startup!!!!!! (Note: this is not a general MIT ... brilliant minds of the MIT senior class come a lot of incredible ideas. I' ... MIT seniors (some of whom I am actually friends with, wow, celebrity

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... living group and my hall and everything surrounding MIT culture, now lives an eight minute bike ride north of MIT. Well, a little longer than that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015