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• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... cookie, it might be able to recognize itself quickly as a junk-food junkie ... sociocultural factors and your willingness to be quiet as a child and not your

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  the happy expressions of all these people; where learning to play a new ... around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to ... independent games as a product of wanting to make something you’re proud of and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  would like to write on your behalf, it is a good idea to have a conversation with each teacher about a) if they would be willing to write you a ... , and that they are far more inclined to put a premium on thoughtfulness

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... , worked together to make an animated short, and worked a lot on our blogger ... actually, to our surprise, ended up with a great summer at home! On campus

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

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... travel - not because Stu really wants to send me on a paid vacation, or ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  find a new place to buy clothes. Here's the video Prof. Winston was ... walked around for three hours. Then, he was off to do soundchecks. A few ... Black Eyed Peas played to a sold-out crowd at the TD Banknorth Garden. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  wanted to print the current W1MX logo on a PCB, but the best he could get ... purpose of a new logo to add a bit more personality (it looked like regular ... days[/annotation], everybody had a radio. they would order pizza on the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper ... of you probably know what it's like to work on large projects like ... takes a VERY long time... and our last part was going to be finished

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube ... longer. I don't think I've ever quite emptied a tube of toothpaste to this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement ... pleasure. On the other hand, How to Stage a Revolution* has the coolest ... .02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort ... had a small award ceremony on the Kendall Rooftop Garden to celebrate ... MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New ... could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly ... dear friend on a Christmas tree farm. The other half of my possessions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  gave them to her so I wouldn't have to bother anymore. Also, a quick ... and when you have to just tell it to shut up and keep moving. I put on a ... completion of the Dopey Challenge requires running a 5k on Thursday, a 10k on

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  those four years in high school, I quickly clung on to what the MIT kid in ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... skills is maybe printing a haphazardly CADded moon on TinkerCAD in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  company) based on humans of new york. it's lucky to share uniquely intimate ... poets, hopeless romantics and people trying to share a shy compliment ... i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... or go to a meeting. I want to actually have a full grasp on the lecture ... low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... enough to have good friends and a strong community to support me during

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  , I go on calls on a quest to save the world.  I'm technically only in ... her, and she was calm when we brought her in on a stretcher to the ... in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  "undergraduate application materials" on the envelope. You do not need to be a ... music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... or be a music major. Art. If you are an artist and would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  're a student or a parent, you could forward this to your math or science ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017