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• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  being rich and partying all the time. No, I don't want to go to your ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1 ... you're twenty, are you going to dress this fancy all the time? Sam: This ... House to get the cake. 12:30pm: Returned to the PCR, bearing the cake

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of ... to inflict serious Hitchhock-esque damage to your person if you don ... . Hypothesis: The older I get, the closer I come to rivaling Professor Sadoway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  boy because swims in his own poop water and then likes to get too ... affectionately called a stupid boy because he tries to eat your fingers through the ... Here are our scaled, feathered, and furred companions for your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  : stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. If you want to talk to us in ... be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2028. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2027. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive — even thrive — wherever you go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of ... , resolved to get to square 256, which would be about 2.5 total hours of work

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to encourage student-faculty interaction.) My friend Varsha '07 and I decided to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action ... students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred in EA

  

  we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. We will have ... the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: EA Deferred

  

  we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. We'll have ... the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Deferred A forum.

  

  unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. We ... shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  plenty of room for you to tell us about any special circumstances regarding your school, community, or family, and any other information that you feel may be helpful to us in evaluating your application. Every
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  once a week, I get to eat with the brothers whenever I want. Being the ... regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance ... of clubs whenever they cater Chipotle to their meetings Chipotle

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  -up-the-stairs-without-knee-bending contests; watching math majors play Guitar Hero while I pretended to be ... ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  to even be at this point. To even get to be in the shoes to say that ... ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... instinctively stop you in your tracks because it doesn’t make sense for that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry ... about these days i want to see your projects and hear about your favorite ... black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for ... . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now that I've returned from a long time away, I'm getting ready to head out ... I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004