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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  independent theater located a scant mile and a half from MIT? But wait, there ... is. But, uh, this is a lesson, prospective MIT students--never attempt ... teaching MIT ESP SAT Prep, "exacerbate" is one of the 50 most common words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  students from lower income backgrounds at MIT, more students who are the ... best fit MIT and MIT's objectives, whoever you are. Shabin also asked ... . Beastie Boy Mike D asked, " How many people does MIT usually reject in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• 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 ... circle 😊. You can learn more about the team at https://fsae.mit ... and Computer Science (6-2), and I wanted to write a blog about MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a ... .5 semesters of MIT is daunting. There are too many things to do and just not ... MIT and call it a day? Do I make a visualization of all these things

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 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 ... getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose ... between the courses you're interested in and major requirements. At MIT, a

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

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... a major at MIT my freshman year, I had come to believe that precision ... it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  MIT I consider “successful” and the semesters during which I accepted ... espoused as the core tenet of the MIT undergraduate experience—that you can ... came to MIT being under the impression—based on how intensely the quirky

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Residence Exploration (REX!!), where they'll explore MIT’s many different ... great residential community can be–it's a big part of many MIT students ... feels, my “friend group” has been the best part of my MIT experience. Of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  this year! MARC is two days of very bright people from MIT (Makers of ... 23, 10:00 pm I ran into some of my teachers from MIT and a few friends ... hundred words.) The meeting started with the head person of MTL (MIT's Tiny

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  Bluebikes bikeshare program, which MIT affiliates can get a discounted ... /full when you need to borrow/return a bike respectively. MIT also has an ... [annotation note="a free, four week summer program at MIT for rising high school

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  was an insane crossover. this was after I got into MIT, so I brought a lifetime supply of MIT merch for everyone. since my host sister had visited me in 2017 and Nisha had given her a MIT tour, they were all very

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  a home when i was entering mit as a frosh, we knew, we all knew, that ... , because mit dorms aren't just buildings. as an example, danny wrote a post ... who to live with, is one of the most impactful choices an mit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  home from MIT on Saturday, 3/14/2020, after getting kicked off of campus ... MIT on Pi Day, I started writing up this post in an attempt to express ... graduate school, and more. I talk with two professors who mention that MIT’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  east campus, pick up some medicine from mit medical, and get tested for ... of mit through mystery hunt, getting to participate in it for the first ... simmons, even if i'm living here. it's not baker. is it "mit", as a concept

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  around mit for an meng, so they’ll be around another year. some are staying ... the shock and denial of dealing with mit shutting down, and a lot of it ... that day, even if i still live inside mit. this isn’t mit, because mit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  MIT quite yet. I think I've definitely gotten better at being an MIT ... for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with ... unlike any other class I've taken at MIT. It's a collaboration with an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  year. We were both dancers on Mirchi (MIT’s Bollywood fusion dance team ... -hop team Mocha during her time at MIT. CK was Course 4 (architecture) but he ... his portfolio ever since and currently works at MIT’s International

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  think that’s one of the bad things about the MIT environment. It seems ... , crisp, and beautiful. But honestly, when I came to MIT, that changed. I ... ’m taking at MIT, and it’s a much different story. The ice rink melted, turned

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  , East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... quintessentially "MIT" dorm. We fix stuff, and we break stuff. We build stuff as a ... outside of EC or MIT. + The building isn't clean and has a generally grungy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  an MIT Arts Scholar. So, what do you get when you combine these all ... the second floor, which is owned by the MIT Art Scholars, who recently ... , this other one that you did, what was it again? Holly: It was the MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017