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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  California. If you can't trust a student blog on the MIT admissions portal

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  inside the door, the ceiling began leaking on me. Needless to say, I got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  decisions are made final and mailed out on Friday!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  . USA Today's All-USA Academic Team. "Team" members are judged on their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  regular action deadline on January 1 (hello, regular action and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  unhinged as we want. Based on observations, we can agree that we share half a ... than I can count on my hands in Boston, and have been absolutely

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  absolutely no way I was unjamming the door on my own, my host brother climbed ... small town living, the recurring bit I’ve landed on is that, at the very

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  — '] playing Elden Ring on a dex/faith build: small, fast melee weapons with the ... talented students in the world interested in an education centered on science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  that new zealand grades on the N-A-M-E system? quirky until i had to ... substantive takes from me on dinners and random conversations. thanks for coming

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  ) controlling the door. If both of them push on the door, then it stays shut; but ... numbers. And that's something I've been working on at school for the past

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  the letter would drop (I lived on the west coast), brushed my teeth, and sat back on my bed with Erinn, expecting a full day of writing other

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  -by-step folding instructions on a single sheet of paper. But when I came to MIT, I ... creations at my desk this summer. On Monday, I put all these pieces up for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  rocky—but it was only after the (metaphorical) ink on the contract had ... conduit for her, and it didn’t matter if it was terrible. Cross-posted on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  put in my best effort and keep my eyes on my own paper. I like building ... lean into the activities where I can naturally succeed. Cross-posted on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  the last month you work on a project where you fabricate something of ... installation as they require a well-supported roof. while working on the final

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ask them out. The reasoning was simple: it was embarrassing and high ... wasted. Since this is on the admissions blog and it is December, some of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  things. how's east campus these days? or, what's going on with mystery hunt? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  were too dull. he goes on to talk about how people who stay true to their ... afraid of commitment, and so on; i am trying to find my way again, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  weeks later, I received the full report on the fire. [caption id ... that gave me some information on who had brought the chemicals that had

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022