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• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything ... during Splash, you can get your feet wet with a short introduction to any
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , played with her for a bit, and went back to sleep for a few hours. At 9am ... , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take ... session at 11am on Narcan administration for EMTs. I went straight to see

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• 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 ... , I'd gotten myself a shiny new UROP for IAP. It was my first time ... that rose up within me was enough to make me giddy for a whole day

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

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being ... met since coming to MIT. For the most part I spend about three days with ... time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate", which varies a slightly by academic year (for example ... all exercise some common sense. And so, walking back to my new dorm

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  introduction). Our professor for the semester was Marjorie Liu, a New York Times ... began the semester by learning some basics: how to format comic scripts, what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough ... ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... .” He was looking for funding to start OpenLabWare, which he explained

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the ... for decades. The magazine we send to donors is literally called Spectrum ... was also working on a lighting project for the new MBTA headhouse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  hours for no apparent reason. Hopefully my blurry photo does something to ... give props to whoever organizes the whole thing for the wise insight to ... , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for ... slipped my mind that I was supposed to dress up for these kinds of things. I'm very fashion challenged. So, I headed back to my room to get changed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I ... . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon ... completely different to what I studied for. In fact, I seriously felt like I ... estimated the number of hours of sleep I'm going to get tonight, and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  are the only restaurants I used to go to before"]new ... added bonus of getting to watch the SuperBowl on the bar TV. Not that it ... is an Asian fusion place that used to be called Thelonious Monkfish for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  for my sleep schedule and for my homework schedule, but I cope by ... this." I've been going to new frats that I've never really been to before ... peaceful to escape my life for a bit and just live like an Animal Crossing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt ... the callback e-mail. "Hi Anna, We would like to call you back for the ... mother, and was badly chastised by Rational Part Of Brain. For good reason

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for ... friends to come to a new place where we have to learn to rely on ourselves. Part of the experience is making new friends and finding a way to call

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  peppered with due to pledge training the new pledges (which just ended, yay ... right for me. I’m starting to realize more and more that it’s ok to do ... don’t want to treat it like a technical class; I don’t have time for 4

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students ... forward to, and I'm psyched about next semester, because for the first time I really, really want to take each of the classes I'm signed up for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT ... course, I turned down a job as head literary critic for the New York Times ... depressing read, although Foer does find several new (to me) ways of expressing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005