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• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  served in a tiny carton for lunch. Eating at Maseeh was like eating at a four star buffet on a broke college student’s budget. You walk in to ... called it a "piañata".  People scurried to the crashed piano for the candy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... applications. I write some, I take pictures a lot. I'm going to concentrate in ... took one more physics class I'd get a degree in physics as well. So

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  this EA decision. It may not feel like it if you get in, and you're not ... career decision, or any one email. Try to be present in your current life ... you have. If you get accepted to MIT, while it will probably give you a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  ) that Shaw's gives a discount to MIT students: you get 5% off with your ID ... project, and get your name on a paper, then it will almost certainly have to ... what you paid for, you'll have to eat a certain number of meals in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  otherwise have just run off, but to be able to defend yourself in a situation ... have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  , making it impossible to get out. We spent a lot of time troubleshooting, to ... excellent introduction to maker culture and allows you to get dirty in hands ... not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  . But every weekday comes with a giant to-do list, in my face and ... feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  mit x caltech rivals to lovers another comic shitpost

  

  i made this in a day and sacrificed a pset youre welcome

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... teaches you how to be a *good* software engineer. *good* means that your ... while and i'm really excited to finally be in it. i was a bit irritated by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  classes, passing classes, to get A's, to get C's (P/NR FTW!), to be ... 2.006 test (which was likely to be VERY hard). All of a sudden, in ... poker is a wonderful medium in which to draw analogy. Sitting with a J♠ J

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... ? That's really short! I haven't had a chance to contact the coach yet." I ... , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much ... right shape with your hands.  4. bike We welded bikes in a D-Lab class ... , ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by ... coming in. If your interview was conducted and you want to let us know, you ... , email us to let us know. Make sure your MIT ID is in the email

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  to conduct yourself in a legal, moral manner away for the first time ... 've got your time management in check, which I don't, yet. As if to ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar ... Cafe. I want to be that cool. Perhaps someday I will be. In the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  , which I'll get to in a moment. Classic CYOA books have a branching ... MIT now, but this is the first time you're talking to him in what must ... wanted to live near your friends. Not that you don't have friends in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a ... second semester is similar, except that if you pass, you get a letter grade ... may designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  we needed to see midyear grades in order to make a decision, and they weren't in your file, we'd contact your school directly to get them.] ... Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field to get an answer.) ... MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18