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• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  the whole day. I’m too old to not get eight hours of sleep. But, it ... chance to start my day with play. I can play with textures, colors ... an exercise in color theory or proportions. It’s a chance to experiment

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  and it's snowed 15 inches. Oops. I'm trying to decide if I want to ... leave at all. It's snowing so hard right now that I can't see across the river to Boston, which is about 1/4 mile away. And it's pretty tempting to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Is it ok to go over the essay word count?

  We require applicants to follow the word limits provided on the application. Your information will not be saved if the responses are too long. You may have to "play" with your thoughts and sentences a bit to meet
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over-thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple ... production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  , reminds me that hope needs no reason one can listen to the tune of it, or ... funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... fucking cheesy to even talk about but it's true   felt like shit

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  .. can I have a look at those?" She says, "No." "Oh, and also, you have to ... moves within the dorm so they can be closer to the friends they've already ... words to REM's "It's The End of the World As We Know It", for serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  . And of course, there's his unicycle, which he now uses to travel to work ... guys probably want to hear more about the man behind on the machine. Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  ! And, don't worry, if for whatever reason you don't get to talk to an MIT student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. (We'll also try to make some more phone calls next Tuesday) Also, admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  . If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you ... . This sounds awful when taken out of context. 17. It takes a lot to make ... FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  everything that MIT has to offer. Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til you try it. I can't say how many things I would have missed out on if I ... Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... . I guess it's also to make us really really really thankful when we sit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  launched - you can find it at aieducation.mit.edu. If you're a student who ... blog post about the project launch. You can check it out on Medium as ... 's...so...beautiful...[/caption] In my last post, I mentioned how therapeutic it felt to be able to drag

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain ... what my desk looked like as I planned out BC's REX schedule. It's going to ROCK. I hope you are prepared. =) Also, I found this article today

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  so much cool great fantastic stuff, that it becomes tough to blog because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life ... been fortunate enough to so densely packed with awesome things, it's been

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  , the admissions counselors will want to know about it so they can say ... do simply for the pleasure of it,” I’m going to be a little worried ... think we want to hear.” It is NOT a trick question, and I think it’s

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  , non-scripted, talking for too long videos that I used to make for the class of 2019. So I thought, what better way to end my time at MIT than ... classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that ... to my favorite MIT band, Rolltreppe. I've been living under a rock for the last four years thanks to course 6, and didn't find out about

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  Systems How can the U. S. Help innovation in tech.? Let’s talk about it. 6 ... Hello, everyone! It’s been a while since I last posted. Here are two ... -ish classes (3 12-unit classes, a 9-unit, and a 6-unit). I think it’s

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  , but instead - you guessed it - I’m going to blog. This is also a ... watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of ... Now You See Me, using some Javascript timing and image blur magic to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  happy, but a key component of it includes exercises for you to put certain ... students to meet new people at 9 pm EDT each day. it was so much fun!!! i met ... talk to in quarantine, it is nice to at least feel like i'm connecting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020