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• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  , we will make a decision on the case; when the midyear grades later come ... that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  It's raining in Boston today, but MIT students are smiling anyway, because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna ... that it's cheap, definitely on a student budget. Here's Lorelle paying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched ... . Let me try to catch up on a few questions (while I'm still backed up ... 't compare two applicants to each other. We evaluate each applicant on their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  time writing/researching. So, from here on out, I'll try to post more ... education, even if it's not one of these brand-name, looks-good-on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  arrived! After so many hot summer nights in Colorado reminiscing on your ... "](bars),[/annotation] but even with so many options to choose (don't get me started on our

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  Here’s the thing, I’m usually very lucky on flights. I’m the epitome of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway ... :34pm. And the next one on our way back to the airport. Buzz. Your

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  different squares that you might land on–some are “payday” squares, some are ... donating to a charity. Sometimes, though, you land on a “LIFE” square. Each ... importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  .   feels like it snuck up on me like — ha! — got you   ... always be a part of who you are it just takes on different forms some ... ; Last semester, I went through tough times. things were going on in my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... it’s real silk, Andi, why would anyone on the internet lie to you ... stretching, which silk has (on the green part of the structure) but polyester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  deranged. And don’t even get me started on quantum “computers”. I bet you ... sleek and elegant computer you’re probably reading this on right now ... is. What’s next, that shoebox on the table is also a quantum computer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  : flop on the couch in Zeta Psi common room, wallow in exhaustion, binge ... . As often pointed out on the blogs, MIT culture can make you feel really ... deeper. When you're lying on the couch you conserve energy, which lets your

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] my undergrad reputation is riding on ... strategies, designating some people to squares, and others to numbers. I was on ... out of chalk faster than free food disappears on campus. Still, we kept

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  controller, using an accelerometer to detect steps on a virtual piano keyboard. Kind of like the foot pedals on a pipe organ. [caption id ... wires, you can suspend the cube between your hands. Each face on the cube

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... if renovations didn't force it on me? In the end I'll never know. I ... , and rally for floor parties on weekends. At one point, I regretted not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  mind as a student (graduation, for one), and you just start working on ... time. But I look back on my time here, and I can't help but feel like it ...  I kept working hard. Getting into MIT was one small step on my journey

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't put a finger on why. Everything is ever so slightly more tiresome: each ... bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out ... good to clarify...']digress.[/annotation] This was on one of the days

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the ... , and green (the fraternity’s colors) tick marks and labels appeared on ... , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  [annotation note="I may be wrong about this estimate because I’ve never been on ... about it! After all, I’ve made… counts on fingers… two whole glass ... . Roll the blob on a stainless steel table (called a “marver”) until it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  waits on one person before taking their photo but that one person is in ... is also taking pictures with another group… and so on. It’s fun. We ... and i ganging up on sonny x. '25 (we weightlifted/kickboxed together on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. '23. Few things on God ... ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... ’s “Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler).” However, the train, especially the freight

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023