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• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  gets a big gold star from me. 15. Money doesn't grow on trees... and earning it is time-consuming. 16. On less than about four hours of sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  lunchtime on December 14, 2004. I promptly withdrew my applications to other ... of reading; I was eighteen months old and finally tackled the words on ... -- took on a new hobby that bore some promise. Before school was out in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  your glass on high; tonight shall ever be A mem'ry that will never die ... our glasses on high to pledge our love for thee We join all those of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... . Connotes over-concentration on problem sets. Supertool: an extreme extreme

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  , the problem isn't really with our flux capacitor (aren't you up on your ... your name, MIT ID, and date of birth on it. Not the same few colleges

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  application on your own and write all your own essays without any of these "paid ... during regular action, if you're deferred. Work on your other college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  Carolina, who went on a quest to find a Pink Lemonade Celsius near her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first-year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out their housing survey and choose where to live on campus. This guide

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  like rambling on about what I've learned (nor do I think I've narrowed it

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some ... defiance to a system that is built to oppose you rather than support you. on ... . the work of discovery shall carry on, but i can easily say that i have

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  one priority over all else: living on a coast. I'm sorry all states from ... while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note ... been here for only 38 days, I can confidently rank Boston higher on my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  've been to DC three times before this summer: once on a middle school field ... was soon whisked away on an airplane to land in DC. I'm working at a ... making. It was very wholesome, and he gave me a few tips on how to get

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ~5 minute (true and personal) story about challenge and resilience at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  layer-on-layer big-games in the world. It is a very important bringing ... Game, but it turns out that the Big Game is so layer-on-layer that I ... , by different people on the game-making team who have never before seen

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  math. We talked things through and moved on. This was a relatively mild ... than 20 Twitter followers now. [/caption] I made it on a whim for ... myself relying on it as a protective measure. Not everyone uses that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of ... ’t make progress on difficult problems so we pick easier career paths and in doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Tuesday, March 14, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my ... attending a Netflix premiere red carpet in the heart of LA. Or sitting on a ... on the other side. Perhaps my reservations for commitment are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; it must be that cars run on wind,  i don’t know any other way   ... some of the content before, on day 1, I already feel behind. Even if that ... I work on problem sets with friends who seem to be getting to the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  . I didn't really intend on taking this class. It's an interesting topic ... -and-greet before the first day of lecture on Thursday, so I went to the Media Lab to ... left before someone made me optimize some C++ or something. On the way

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022