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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  into Boston and then the buses can be used to go places the subways don ... for getting to classes quickly when you live in the farthest dorm and it ... PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION This includes but is not limited to cars

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... want to spend more time being alone? Maybe the reason I’m doing so much ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  around, or openly be on their phones during class, or talk to their friends ... earplugs underneath my hair, and it occurs to me that being able to casually ... how many students out there are doing just well enough to avoid being

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Playsentations began. The first group to go was Tube Racers. followed by ... that can be snapped together to build real circuits. Each plushy, while ... little incentive to actually fill these forms out, but this being MIT and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  popularized by the 19th century impressionists like Claude Monet due to the new ... allow me to add the smallest details by building up layer after layer, but ... decided to challenge myself by painting the iconic MIT dome with a limited

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... . Even when you have somewhere you need to be, spend the extra 30 seconds ... to put a big emphasis on #8. Write often. In between learning to be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... ’t seem to be ticking as fast. Or as consistently. Or with as much purpose ... himself then I could ever even pretend to be about my own decisions, so I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  to be a lot of stinkbugs and tiny little leafhoppers. We occasionally ... know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... culture[/caption] I'm scared to act as weirdly as I normally do in fear of

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

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  me, CPW schedule right by my head. I finally just lost the ability to stay awake and died. The next thing I know I'm being woken up by my ... some guest blogs very soon (we'll be harassing prefrosh to get them

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before ... be posted in mid-January to your application portal. We have posted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  was fun. It really was. Just not in the way I wanted it to be. Three At ... very human. We don’t want to be forgotten by our friends. At the same ... are rolling around suitcases. We would be travelling to Princeton in two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  ways. Now I know what I really want to do with my life. And, by the way ... Anymore! (though, to be fair, The F-Word never was)   How did you ... coaster and fort, and freshmen get to help out. It's a pretty cool way to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  may want to do in the future. Rule No. 1 Don't be a afraid to put ... suggestions on who to talk to. Don't be afraid to go talk to people at career ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  , pretzels, snacks, and other things for the runners to grab on their way by ... Chris Peterson "Damn you for being so inspiring, you're going to get me ... gave them to her so I wouldn't have to bother anymore. Also, a quick

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  home to many student groups, so I was treated to an artistic appetizer by ... perfect number to celebrate the soon-to-be-admitted Class of 2030. As the ... students will be able to say, “I Have Tasted Future Potential.” The community

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my family to go to college, and being from a town that sent few of its ... already made up my mind was too nerdy, too narrow, and too, well, male to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  pink) There are many, many applications to be reviewed. I know some of ... applications are up 10%) We are working as quickly as possible to process all of this mail, and hope to be completely caught up within the next few days

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  you get here, since it's sure to be legendary by the time you get here ... went to, who you recognize and know by name, but haven't ever really ... neater, but quickly decided against that. So I went to the Genghis Khan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  be his mother pointed out the window to the airplane, which would act ... conversational protocol you quickly learn when you're headed to MIT. I asked him ... learned that the door across from mine was supposed to be a bathroom, but

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022