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• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a ... Boston, I knew not to expect midwest-levels of friendliness. I frequented a ... always going to be… until I found MIT. Only a year and a half after

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  useless repetition. Senior year, I focused on making a change to put less ... , maybe start making things for my Tumblr again just as a motivator to actually ... stable, obviously voiced a little hesitation. It took me a while to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  clear that this is a tech school. Outside of classes, people are making ... , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... booklets on topics ranging from sci-fi to personal memoir. I picked up a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk ... my riddle: It takes about 8000 engineers to change a (metaphorical

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  Hi folks, Jess sent me an email a few days ago making fun of me for ... check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a My ... you do not currently have a MyMIT account and you wish to receive your

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... an admissions blogger to watching a movie every night for PNR. College ... with MIT, but it just gives you a better opportunity to meet more people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  ?) getting better grades than you? It's enough to make you feel like maybe ... 're gonna need a lot of help to get to where you ought to be." It was more ... and research med schools." I feel a lot more ready for what I want to do

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train ... probably the 5am walk to the station; it sounds a little torturous/scary but

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  , then bend it over the anvil, hammer it in towards yourself to make a curve. Then you do that again, in larger scale, to make a hook. Repeat ... technique of where to hit a curve to make it bend just so reminds me of making

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... . Every pset takes me ages to complete, anywhere from 8-12 hours a week

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology ... , then I want to remind you success is not always a straight line. Your ... yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make wherever you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I ... . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the ... . She's a good lady.) 6. Make ublec. One part cornstarch, one part water

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  "On taking a 'Gap Year'", I remembered that I've been meaning to write ... to surround a gap year. One of the concepts that I found particularly ... normal routine. And mine definitely has been. To prove it, here's a play

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... interesting or would make a difference in the world, things in my personal life. but i think in the last year, things have started to take a bit more of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  , worked together to make an animated short, and worked a lot on our blogger ... . Aside from that we played around with Unity and tried to make a few scenes ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus

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

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a ... minutes later, a wonderfully carbonated feeling began to bubble up inside me

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact ... anything else that you need to make your decision -- please let us know your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  tips are all things that I found to make a difference in my recruiting ... talk to them. Make a scouting video of things you are really good at ... The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job ... teaching all my subjects, which turned out to be a whooping mix of ... minutes to plan a lesson is infinitely better than none. And having a few

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  , you might even contemplate how to make a nice triangle in front of the ... Observatory built. The Observatory of Paris was a great place to work, not only ... , and along the way, I got to make lots and lots of plots. I spent my

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007