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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  epithet. Q. (related to previous) Do you spend all your time studying? A ... humanities major, won't it be easier for me to get in? A. Nope. Wouldn't that be a little too easy? The major you write down on your application

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for ... 've seen both of them present before on other topics, so I knew to expect ... "right" things to get into the "right" colleges, they will be happy, in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  challenging coursework available to you at your high school, treating both AP ... activities on our What to do in high school page. ... We're often asked to recommend specific classes for high school
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... regardless, so I could look back on it now and hopefully be able to marvel at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  as it is now. Getting adjusted to fully in-person life on campus ... The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... high school, getting into MIT, moving to campus, etc. I haven't gotten ... because I like taking my time to get out of bed. I've moved floors so I stop

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets ... get it down from the third floor because it was too big to fit anywhere ... into Becky '12, another freshman on the floor. "Hey Becky, want to go

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  bag. On one hand, I'm pretty comfortable out here and I get to hang out ... ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  can get up to Boston on a Saturday night. Basically, the company gives ... getting back from Harvard Square, we decided it'd be best to bike. But it ... mirror off of somebody's car on the way down. Still, he was determined to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  nothing. Paying to relax and get pampered may be on the calendar for the ... . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... many Americans pride on going to the gym regularly, the Koreans go to the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  to land on the moon earlier this year. While their first attempt ... worked on analyzing a lot of data from Mission 1 to better inform our ... interning on this team with me. Together, we got to install electrical

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we ... , but a lot of really cool stuff had to be left on the cutting room floor ... A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  and get ready to head home for the summer! I haven't spent more than two ... That's it ladies and gents, sophomore year is over for yours truly. I ... not even close to done packing. But, that's what tonight and tomorrow

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again ... There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a Saturday anymore. My soon to be 18-yr-old will be on the am airwaves with his ... seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  walk to your drawers and pull out digital work files, or find your movie ... of this New Yorker issue), a digital object is overlaid on the screen ... camera over it and a digital gecko popped up to life on his wrist. His

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  Person. I used to eat one of these Huge Wraps on my way back to the living place. One hour after I get there, when I sit down to work on some Problem ... words[/caption] I miss being able to get on the train. There are so many

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  (SLP) speaks to conference attendees Attendees and special guests have lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the hotel's website, NOT to its email address) Dean Jones (Dean of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  petitioned to form DreaMIT, an on-campus organization that would aim to bring ... homeland, I would lose a new life. To even imagine what the undocumented ... Massachusetts briefly before new legislature made it impossible for her to cover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021