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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the ... actually also missed the second bus and had to get driven by one of the ... ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7173.mp4"][/video] Story time: So in order to get back to the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  direct transcript for your reading pleasure: Me: Tell me about your day. Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  by SUTD freshmen to tap into restricted areas around their campus ... 're RFID-enabled rings that you can use to pretty much punch your way into a ... The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  time I try to write it I get sad and miss home and put it off ‘til later. I will get around to introducing myself and Kentucky soon, so just ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  , so, you've seen all the entries, but lets say you want to write your ... at all of the options that drop down, we get to choose from those. We ... on the Internet did MIT hide all of its goodies? I'd like to shed light

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  , curated by the bloggers, to provide motivational music for you, dear reader ... 't listen to all of them them or censor anything, so y'know, use your judgment ... . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get ... realize that you’re only going to be as good as you believe you can be. I ... conversations, I’d suggest getting started before 8am. Your body is, for all

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to buckle down and get seriously serious about my education. When ... to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high ... - great! - but know what you're getting yourself into, and don't deceive

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was ... 's website to see if I could afford one.  The math never worked :( In late ... about as close to winning the lottery as I'd ever get so I followed

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  ’s commonly asked, akin to “what do you want to do with your life,” and i ... Google when you search it up, way after its more famous homonymous beach ... make the stuff discovered by the research team into real things people

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  then wind yourself through a bit of awkward hallway to get to the library ... tap your ID to reserve a room for hours. Although I like to work with ... to EC if you're into that kind of thing :0)   Hayden is what I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at MIT by allowing me to focus less on money and materials and spend more ... , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  ASAP, we decided to take the ferry over instead of getting there by foot ... across Europe. It seemed like the perfect way to get into bike trekking ... .']solo-backpacking Europe,[/annotation]or something akin to that. I knew that by this point

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  specific methods of food selection and preparation, you might want to ... and buying all of your other meals gets really expensive really quickly ... guarantee! "Lastly, Au Bon Pain is going to be your best friend, as they are

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  'm going to do? I'm going to find out your username, and get my workstation ... the brain’s inability to process an overwhelming event than by the event ... pick up your mail. I'm going to contact your file server and remove your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  invented in 2017 by people in Epsilon Theta, one of MIT’s independent living ... , but you don’t know who your teammates are. You’re trying to figure out ... to give hints on what your word is. The hints should be subtle enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  -dead, "I get better every single day..." My roommates and I decided to join ... going to code in Johnson Ice Rink surrounded by a million other people, so ... taught me how to use Github, which I'd always been so confused by in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4 ... and smash a ball or whatever. tl;dr you have to take PE and you're

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  from California, I didn’t get many chances to go back home and see my ... Getting rejected by internships/not really having summer plans = +0 Notes ... get what you want at a certain time, but you always get the chance to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018