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• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... about living at Maseeh. More neutral facts, like the fact that Maseeh ... at night because you have stayed up so late past dinner, your stomach

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  traced with green marker at a kids’ arts and crafts space with my little ... sharpener, also from Max. Paint I got on my desk while painting my room at ... indoors). At the end of last semester I finally caved and bought a bunch of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  conversations at MIT but still love every minute of it." Huh. This is really ... those crazy intimidating MIT students. I guess what I'm getting at here is ... before even showing up at MIT. (This was well before being an admissions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three hours behind Washington, where I work). I'd get breakfast at around 7 or 8 while staring at code. I'd eat lunch at around 12. Nap from 2-3. Take the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  question, just to ensure that all of me, or at least nearly all of me would ... program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) nonprofit organization - ??? equality in STEM and social justice - Essay #3: At MIT, we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  can bite.  Competitive at a National Level And while the NEWMAC demonstrates success at a regional scale, you might be thinking: Surely there is not this much success at a national level, too?  WRONG!  The limits of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  despaired at the possibility that I lacked the intrinsic motivation that ... invented at MIT by Gerry Sussman and Guy Steele, was first described in a ... LED strips when seen directly. But this was soft and warm! At first I

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

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  MIT Mystery Hunt sits atop the calendar at just a whole other scale ... the writing team in 2014), I still haven't taken a crack at writing any ... Francisco for 6 years, Hunt was the temporal landmark which anchored at least

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  up through the shower window and came to the rescue. Freedom at last ... small town living, the recurring bit I’ve landed on is that, at the very ... am at the present day. Away from home, the people I meet have no

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

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  class or gotten distracted by Tetazoo tea time. At one point, Jebby tried ... my life, but it doesn’t encapsulate my experience at MIT as a whole ... seemed a weird and out of character, or at least been uninteresting. Out of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  and our whole process. I said I deserve it all I'm wakin' up at 6 a

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• 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

  

  working at MIT are like playing Elden Ring. When I started working here 15 ... below $100,000, parents can expect to pay nothing at all toward the ... public data from economists at Opportunity Insights). We hope that these

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

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

  

  at the start of the semester and has not stopped kicking my ass ever ... a friend, Tristan C. '27, at baker dining which was actually the first time i ate at baker dining again since freshman fall, and i have to admit

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  would’ve been looking at a surgery that would leave me unable to put ... -footed pirate and limping a bit because my feet were at different heights. Despite ... just run, I can sprint. I lead my own line at warmup, because now is when

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  mentoring for them for most of my time at mit and have really loved it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Thursday, 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 where you’ve been able to

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  frequent during my junior year, which I think is at least partly attributed ... wisely at all, and panics over what may be after graduation. I feel like I ... solutions to these problems to share you will probably feel blah at some point

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  (which was only supposed to have like 2 kids at a time but we put around 8 ... discuss changes and events at Simmons, as well as allow anyone the chance to ... ="94970" /] I made a proposal at the last house meeting to buy a drum set for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  summer, I interned at a lunar exploration company called ispace. They are a ... at least arriving to the moon is incredibly impressive.  But don ... Class of 2022 that is doing her masters at MIT for Manufacturing, was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  at a pace faster than I could keep up with but the professor was clear ... use telescopes and cameras for low-light photography. at the end of the ... enticing variety of classes and limited time you have at MIT, again and again

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023