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• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for ... Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K. Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden ... 's easy to blame him for anything involving nudity. The driver of the car I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to ... to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... concerts firefly — four friends and i went to Dover, Delaware for three ... . the music slapped though dance kinematix — i biked to Northeastern

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www ... princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the ... 't know or anything, but I choose to believe that he only auditioned because ... ! And I hear Ankur was even there! I could have gotten to meet a reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... wearing traditional clothing, and seemed to have been eagerly waiting the ... into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT-related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... . I lied to someone's parents It was[annotation note="Parents come to ... brain is too sleepy to think, but too awake to fall asleep. [-100 aura

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... , their GoFundMes are here. This write-up isn’t intended to be activism or ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You'll probably never have to ... waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VAlYwWWb7kMKZL904QOLv?si=KqyWGhCITIKEXmsToGnK5w https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  recreating the Monty Hall problem (anybody got two goats to spare?) writing ... classes this past semester. to make matters worse, this class was tedious ... this class that I brought my problem sets to ring delivery. [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  have to post this anonymously... MIT is hella gay, and lots of cool gay events are happening during CPW! If you want to learn how to be gay@MIT or want to meet some Super Dope gays on campus, consider coming to these

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018