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• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  from MIT in order to make this possible. I was basically the person they ... . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  Tuesday I had a bad day. I want to talk about what bad days look ... -level and also not important past analogy purposes"]I also want to talk about ... endless of what you're gonna get. I think that's why Tuesday hit me like a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  semester teaches a new lesson about how to make decisions for the next one. I ... to make it a little easier or a lot harder for you. oftentimes, it boils down to your ego and out of all the things to consider, that, in my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your ... poetry that tries to incorporate math always comes off as cringe.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  , there are way more. Some people choose to make their own props, and you ... we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days to prepare, and i shrivel from embarrassment every time someone

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  , but I did =) Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the event, BUT ... So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make ... he’s on track to acing the class. His love of “making stuff” follows ... , I sat down with one of them, Kevin, to talk about his room, which I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the real You in your essays and in your apps as a whole. It's okay to ... I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your ... college apps are likely still an irksome item on your mind. I'm in Southern

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... a style image in addition to an input image during [annotation note="making

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view all of this random-fact-learning as somewhat productive c: To be clear ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  When the most stressful thing in your life is having repetitive conversations about your future, life is too easy and things become a big deal ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  sororities or dorms. It makes coming to MIT feel so worth it, even when I felt ... included the ban on freshmen, and the removal of two of our GRTs to make way ... make this plan more palatable to the residents. By the end of it all

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  Bloggers was: We started out by making root beer floats and listening to a ... blogger, coder, gamer, and web designer (rather, I try to be). I came from distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  making coffee and tea. After psetting, we walked back to MacG together and ... evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... Bostonians use to ride the T."]back to campus[/annotation]. I was surprised

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  even close). on one hand this makes it difficult for many students to ... constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... feels very tempting to put off tasks like these which require creativity

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  helped her make her way to the bathroom, bringing paper towels and helping ... - making soup, bringing Gatorade and crackers to the doors of the ill.  It is ... and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  you haven't yet done so, you must click the "Submit" button on your EA app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... procrastinating! A few answers to common questions: Please remember that if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  you'll do is look to your right and see Killian Court, realize that you're ... you enough to save your life. Ok, thing two: When to visit MIT. Maybe ... totally hosed and be working ("tooling") all night, leaving you to your own

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  people's confused, surprised expressions. You're the one that gets to watch ... things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012