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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  is not the end but rather the beginning of mathematics. I have ... issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... two reasons I wrote my last entry. The first is, to be quite truthful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  event. The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely ... backpack is the max reasonable load, especially if you don’t need to bring a ... you absolutely have to. Space in the bag. Ok, not really something you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  (the one in the United Kingdom, not in the United States where MIT is ... , you get the point: my home base this summer is a remote place out in the ... long, but the town is around the size of a 1 mile square) and saw some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  , to start, my name is Natanya K. ’14. Er, well, not really. My parents ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... , but the gist of it? I’m a starry-eyed frosh who thinks that MIT is the

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... being able to make food for myself. The latter is beyond terrifying, as I ... ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  normally would not get to do during the semester. So our advice to you is to ... IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is ... sponsors the class, but it’s open to anyone in the MIT community and is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to ... substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school ... desire to defect from Course 6 that still remains in my soul. The Faucet is ... exploring a decrepit cabin in the woods, Jacques is here for it. As a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  year is for the concert Saturday evening, when MIT’s a cappella groups ... years now, and this is the only time my parents get to see us perform. You ... wanted to tell it. It’s not that I fell out of love with the characters, or

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  imagine.  As WIDE as the Borderline tunnel or the Infinite Corridor is long, or the Green Building is tall. Or, maybe I should dream bigger ... ?” “Exciting! When’s your live concert?  The vibe here is absolutely bananas, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  in tandem is, uh, rough to say the least). Not gonna lie, I ... ’ll meet anyone in the next three months). It’s not like “omg I need a lady ... below is the kind of entertainment that makes me feel alive. Don’t get me

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  . Well, most of my vocabulary (the English vocabulary, that is) did that ... Admissions Officer, it's weird. So this is what the power feels like. Mwahaha ... athlete knows, Day 3 of getting back into shape is by far the most painful

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  finally put it together. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the Infinite Corridor is perhaps too aptly named... After finding the Wikipedia ... posting the signs frown upon duplicated effort. Not even East Campus

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall ... How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent at 5 PM Eastern today, May 7, and you should receive it shortly thereafter, depending on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under the Great Dome, overlooking Killian Court. It's a beautiful view ... started dissembling the hack by 8:30AM...but not before some members of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  to life - the sim version of me that is not only an accomplished ... will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where ... application, I wrote a sample blogpost in response to the prompt 'What is your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to ... Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way." [...] "I don ... people regret not having taken one. The bottom line here is that it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  album, but summer is not for feeling feels. Summer is for banging bangers ... . So it goes. UM is so BIG. Obscenely large. I can’t even picture the ... The “I’ll just go grocery shopping tomorrow” phrase is a slippery slope

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  thirteen page report in the last 24 hours is not strongly recommended, and in ... ’ palette. Perhaps it is the monotony of eating at the same place every night ... different classes collide in the same week (let’s not even mention the same

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015