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• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  were being kicked out of our dorms. Due to this, I was under the impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy ... ourselves two days to locate and contact a good 5-bed, and although the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all) other schools do not have the time and resources to make such a class ... teaches design and manufacturing, so the first month or so is dedicated to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD ... medical school right after college, you have to make that decision by the ... and get letters of recommendation. (By the way…I’m writing this on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... could get painting, so I resolved to paint the tree over spring break ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  managed to get someone to fill in for the clinician. I was given some ... 've done. I knew that we had to get people excited about the Guild, if I ... , I emailed and I messaged people, trying to get our first game ready by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  monument, listening to "Things Fall Apart" by ayokay on repeat to the ... to the party the previous night. She'd said she'd come get it at some ... spending the night frantically studying in a Green building lounge, fueled by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  bookmark the videos I like to my dance folder, which gets so long that I have ... over 250 dances! getting into dance through K-pop, at least in the self ... . obviously, I don't have the time to watch them all, so I've developed a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... touched by the world and everything in it. It's absolutely shocking to be ... of my MIT life to y’all. So you get to come along on the journey! I

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected ... rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration ... Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by ... ."']here at the office,[/annotation] we are all getting ready to read your ... application to us by November 1st, especially if you are still dealing with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  SAT score or certain extracurricular activities to get into MIT. The ... the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  . Hopefully it'll get warm enough to walk along the beaches at least! Before ... It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  introduced to when you first get here. If nothing else, don't pass up the surf ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... Orientation and lasts for up to two weeks. - Over those two weeks, you get to

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ? how far could i get? thus, began the journey to the end of the world ... want to generate a patch of 128 by 128 meters of land. the most naive ... you get away from the origin, the stranger the game gets due to these

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  -grade oils. Anyway, the problem is that in addition to getting oil from the ... , The World According to Garp by John Irving. 6. Gearing up for the ... sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  to show the typical setup, furniture, and layout of a mix of rooms ... -in" quarters to give some contrast between the way you'll find a room when you ... able to find empty rooms to photograph because during the summer months

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  you at the competition!   ----- Get on it if you're close enough to ... WIth CPW 2012 just a few days away, the whole school is getting ready to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do ... rampant. The clincher was when a friend sent me a link to a post about gaming the housing lottery. YOU DON'T NEED TO GAME THE GODDAMMED LOTTERY

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in ... designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off ... was our turn to fly again, we flew the untimed cargo mission, carrying a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  Chorallaries audition. Sure enough, by the time I got to the Chorallaries, I was ... [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the ... ’t think I had much chance at getting into the Symphony Orchestra

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011