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• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  in the fall - had commented on it saying something to the effect of ... grade science reports on, say, baking powder volcanos, I did mine on The ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  . Now, I'm forcing myself to try and do more formal writing, hopping on to The ... those four years in high school, I quickly clung on to what the MIT kid in ... MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  profits to charity, posting thoughtful weekly vlogs — the list goes on. I ... critically and broadened my perspective on the world. I look forward to ... surface. It feels especially fitting to write about this here, on the MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house ... letters back to their MIT family. We tack them up on the wall in the kitchen ... +/- 3 beds (too sleepy to think harder about it); two are doubles, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Today was the second and final day of ... . [...] Now, she's teaming up with the American Academy of Pediatrics to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don ... the long waits, it's probably my least favorite game on this list

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme that I'd intended to carry through the journal, but by the end, my pages ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  on the West Coast, I would be likely to need a spine and hip ... temperatures you see are how it actually feels. Compared to seeing 23F on the ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  recitation on Friday (which is pretty similar to most courses). In the ... Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  , across the street from Burton-Conner (not to be confused with the Sailing ... think of the boathouse as kind of a second home. It’s where half my ... team in the middle of Colorado. Prior to crew, I never thought I could

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  them. For the I-9 form you will fill out once to receive access to all on ... . No need to bring the stock of a lifetime on the plane. And once you ... clothing and mementos on the floor... But what should you pack, really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... how much I enjoyed my math classes. I was always planning on taking the ... , whenever I tell someone that I'm a physics major, I feel the need to somehow

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  other. I'd gone to the Flour on Mass Ave before, but this was my first ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn ... diner on Mass Ave near MIT, with the twist that everything they serve is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... . She’s had to live with the mess for the past month). But last night, as ... picture that the arrow points to is one from my freshman year, taken with my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  ), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living ... get to school, when everyone is looking around at the different dorms ... RBA program on their website. And as always, if you want to hear more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  ’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U ... accelerator, Robbie Baldwin receives the power to reflect kinetic energy. His ... into a terrible accident, Dennis Sykes gets the reality-warping power to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  and headstrong as this person was reduced to merely their number on the ... around on campus. The goal for now is to get stronger (without teetering ... 's absolutely delicious, but definitely not the most nutritious.) From there on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  . Acquaintances that I had gotten used to being around, but no longer see on the ... live with it. In the meantime, all I can do is hold on to the people that ... to do exactly just that. On Getting Burnt  At the same time that my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  looming 9AM only three hours away. Needless to say, we passed out on the ... 'm trying my best to be productive, to move on with all the shit that ... . On Sunday night, we made an impulse decision to watch High School

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019