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• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  friends have left by now, and as I walk through the hallways that ought to ... *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... completely. There’s enough space to leave me trying to figure out the things

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  the Academic Expo. Stop by and talk to students about their experiences ... , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston ... weather attempts to dampen our moods, campus-wide excitement will not be

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  [by CDT Vikram Mittal, MIT '09 Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate ... were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  Hi folks, So sorry for the delay in posting this - we wanted to be ... . We're on schedule to release MIT admissions decisions online at 12:00PM ... happening at this juncture. Decisions will be available to those who meet all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write ... things you'd like to know more about (or see photos of, if you're unable to visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  , it gets cold in that wet, drippy way that makes you feel like you ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early September: Mid-October: Last week: ...I don't get it. (No, it does not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... prove it to you. Dominating our Conference MIT is the most successful ... to be clear, this isn’t one team carrying everyone else on their back

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  Us, hesitantly: “Do you want to see every Naruto-themed art project ... , barely clipped down to the base, was protruded as if it was about to ... , hidden by our 13 year old selves, was an atrocity. A persuasive essay about

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  just like yours is. However, we come to different conclusions because we ... me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside ... and science early, and I get hooked. Sometime in 2000 I read about

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... the panel from the College Board disagreed. "He told me I was jumping to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  valley till my breath comes back. Feeling the world come to life. Seeing the raw scale of man fill my view only when I choose to see it. Seeing ... months to settle back and see what it's like being here and meeting other

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  .02 [Multivariable Calculus] class. Brought to you by the "frosh" MIT Class of 2010 ... , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed ... Prof. Pinker... well, he decided to move to Harvard. This term, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  (remember, we're professionals); newer readers might take 30-45 minutes to fully evaluate and summarize a folder. We're expected to read applications at least 4 full days each week (including weekends), in addition to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  yesterday's math competition win by MIT was unsurprising to some of you, but ... first national title since 1974 by upsetting the U.S. Naval Academy at the ... nationally-ranked No. 1 Midshipmen by four points, preventing them from earning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn't even allowed to read, which is lame because my little brother is allowed to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  really serious – People take the TOEIC to get jobs, seek promotions, make ... waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at ... all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  but couldn’t get myself to decide what that was; i promised myself i ... fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024