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• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  going to wah-wah-wah through complaints like, "What if I get a bad grade ... found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  the class, I had barely stepped foot in a proper gym. To me, the ... was to learn how to work out in a gym without breaking any fancy ... :00 a.m. (wait, there are people awake at 8:00 a.m.???) to about 6:00 in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship ... subway in…  NYC   Before this summer, I went to NYC once with a friend ... ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... get away. All throughout the year, a little bar in Cambridge known as ... later I went to a concert in Boston’s famous House of Blues, just a twenty

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  being able to get to class a little earlier in the mornings and having ... get to design and manufacture plastic yoyos in this class! Definitely ... 'm getting used to some big changes in my life. The first change that I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of whom rides on a noble steed--those scooters that you used to sit your

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT ... place in the 2003 World Solar Challenge in Australia - for a spin on Mount ... , said MIT student Ben Glass, who was traveling ahead in a lead car

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  , helping everyone in the Cambridge area get their data where it needs to be ... . In the future, the Radio Society is hoping to develop a couple really ... to make a donation to help them preserve this space, or want to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  disaster to work with, especially if you're using Git) and I want to put in a ... 6.073 (officially CMS.611) are hard to get in without an affiliation ... in edtech, so I think that this will be a cool thing to work on. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about 350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I ... "Special Edition" cards, adding a little something extra to a few of the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  keep a handle on your spending, you should stick to a debit card until ... easily -- the last date to add a course to your registration is five weeks ... -term freshman, you'll go to your advisor, who will sign a paper which lists all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  . To anyone reading this, it gets lighter. I will give you a short ... 've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... Office get a sense of what your passions are and how you have explored them ... As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  , walkway, and a red thing... its uhhh, getting harder and harder to sing ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while ... us when we're sick, Is covered in snow, but only a few inches thick

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  very least i’ll get a better sense of what it’s like to work in the space ... each other. for a while i tried to get the best of all worlds - i was ... is one fact i am absolutely certain of: i want to live in a world where

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a ... you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this ... sounds like a house elf from Harry Potter and 2) my parents, who were in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  had the opportunity to work for him for a while, since we are both in ... converting kiddie toys into a dragster to creating moving art for a museum and designing a low-cost peanut butter machine for a women's collective in Haiti

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... that matter most to them (you might get a surprise). Ask them about their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  you're interested in a club sport, feel free to email the captains of ... of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... 's probably not in your best interest to use the comments to wonder about this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... really hard to even get a basic research position in a biology lab there ... , as a complement to my life (aka. I don't have to actually "major" in it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009