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• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  taken-aback by the chorus of "ANNAAA!"'s. They were always happy to see me ... take the time to get to know them. Hop in a new acquaintance's car for an ... commtment to the next. When classes began, I was fine: the academics were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  ? jenny: yep! i tried getting some, but i got blown up by a creeper for the ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... to the Museum of Science, and all we had to do was to give her our name

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  advance. (Be sure to stop by and see if there are any open spots if you weren't able to put your name down before they start!) The first night is ... to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  myself to hate mit. "the flight's are too far from cali." "cambridge is ... still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  and getting to witness the vibrant art, poetry, and theater scenes of ... subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  classes. A good way to study for them is by using the materials (lectures ... over to the Bush Room to join several other MIT students in calling youuu: the RA admits! I think I got to call and congratulate about fifteen or

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... have no problem with this concept where everyone refers to classes by ... MIT. I'm not sure if I'll have to meet with the professor to "prove" my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the ... . Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I don't need to, and I'm sure I'll figure something out when I get there

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  their word count by the amount of times they speak. To apply these ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue ... deprivation, by the way. I almost got a migraine on the third night. There were

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  their time! Try to get your application components to us in advance of the ... Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule ... 1 by the time you interview, but you must have registered for My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  to help prepare everything for the [annotation note="underclassmen have ... my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... also heard the term 'protofrosh' used to describe students who are

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  on me, so I had to organize a hand-off. The graduates walk right by the ... very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to ... application, the Celtics riots, the Red Sox game I went to, yadda yadda yadda

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... me (benjones at you-know-the-rest) by August 31st, 2007 and: Provide a ... be considered, you have the rest of the summer to be incredibly

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  more structurally unstable by the weight of the expectations attached to ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... unceremoniously late. I would like to posit that half the notoriety of Unified stems

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  it by asking all the recent MIT graduates to raise their hands, and of ... to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband ... contents to be strewn across the table. (I apologize to all

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  an official photograph, followed by the Q&A: Nancy Kanwisher is the ... Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  to see this, but it was an awesome show put on by the Musical Theater ... masks we had to wear during Sleep No More (which is by far the ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  can focus my time to get stuff done before two in the morning.  My ... failure, back to fail a little bit more! I think that the weather has a ... . First Robotics was started by Woody Flowers, who was the first instructor

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... --which brings me to the 2.009 presentations! The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can ... free! The live stream is embedded below. These products are designed by

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015