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• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  roll back over me after we attempted to budge it from rest. Luckily, a ... top of the base. After several failed attempts to lift the beast and ... that it stayed! Ghassan G, who stopped by earlier to take some pictures

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  , and it’s important to understand the mechanics of the game you’ve just ... skill points in this category, but as much as I hate to admit it, I have ... ="alignnone" width="1882"] it's nice to pause the game when you need to[/caption] By

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  ) I ended up with . . . I like to call it a spastic spider bot, even ... and use BootCamp to dual boot with XP (this is what I'm doing, it ... write some crazy code to make it work (also not advised

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  other signs as possible. It seemed like a good idea at the time, until I ... . (Oh, and it's got facts and stuff on it.) With that in mind, here's to ... the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  actually stuck to my foot since it was damp out (seriously, you can't make ... ! (Affirmative.) It's really hard for me to explain the nerd stereotype; the best ... an old entry of Ben's, or as the guy voted Most Likely to Cure Cancer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the ... 't learned any of the material that it covers, you have to go to lecture first ... . Otherwise it's like 4 or 5 AM. You get used to this and develop a routine, it

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... those who would come after me. Today, it is five years and one month after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... . Now it's our turn to wait, excited and eager, hoping the applicants we ... worse. Plus, it doesn't have to be goodbye forever--we can still be

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  possibly getting into not only MIT, but to any rigorous, awesome school ... extent, but it is possible that you (like many others) worry that you can ... , admission to a wonderful school—it is not because they think you are at an

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... meetings. but it takes time to set up the infrastructure for good knowledge transfer, and it's easy to forget something small, like transferring a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  able to evaluate it before selection committee begins. The best way to ... Report. You should send this in as soon as possible after your grades are ... . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  , check it out! Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great place to meet ... ! It will be in the mail on Wednesday, and in your mailboxes soon after ... possible. Finally, please complete the Medical Release Form. Notes to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  after they happened to try to remember if we said everything we wanted to ... -1.5 hour commute depending on traffic. After getting home and eating food, it ... heavy it began to feel. We began to think about the whole thing more

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I promise you: the excitement never wears off! Even after a day full of ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  spring semester after moving to a new dorm! Immediately after joining, I ... people. It was on a whim that I decided to sign up for sorority ... Counselors played loud music to hype us up, I refused to have any hopes. It was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  'd go to events to meet new people whenever possible and seize every ... up at 9 to sleeping at 4 am and waking up after 12 pm. and i'm not ... most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  . True story. It is possible to succeed at MIT even if your high school ... maybe I'll just have to walk to LA. I'm sure it will be awesome. At any ... ought to turn off the TVs after midnight or something. (Sort of unrelated

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  us managed to receive our diplomas after 3.5 straight hours of pouring ... surprise, and I expected it to be all better when I take classes in my major ... back in February, “just because”. It still bothers me to think about all

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... nothing to do with DeLoereans. And perhaps thankfully it had nothing to do ... make sure it's working for you. If it isn't don't be afraid to try

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting ... make sure I'm awake enough to hear the second one—goes off. I turn it off

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023