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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  brand new refrigerator to our kitchen, and we figured the time was right ... Charles River, just adjacent to East Campus. Now, I'm not much of a swimmer, and even if I were, I doubt I'd want to take a dip in the Charles

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a ... surprise, and I expected it to be all better when I take classes in my major

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very ... process I would like to ask you (I read this post and thought that you ... chances to be admitted to MIT?" There should not be much difference between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  ), what MIT's role ought to be in national and global energy policy, the ... every Friday, and this week Bryan and I got lucky. Now, I happen to think ... school cares so much about student life and opinions that she asks students

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  ) and loved it immediately. In Semantle, you are trying to figure out some ... in meaning to the secret word. Higher scores are closer in meaning, and ... of a word, and then everyone tries to figure it out by iteratively

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  urge to oversubscribe myself and overcommit to things. I should create ... I’m three weeks into my MISTI, and I think I’ve pretty much got this ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... to the student body. Once I could be myself publicly, I was happy for ... to East Campus, and became an entirely new person. One that was happy

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  bafflement appeared as I handed my boarding pass and state-issued photo ID to ... does he simply have an unnatural aversion to expired identification? I ... individual, and it retains to this day some of the scars of its exhilarating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  for college. I talk to my future classmates daily, and it seems like ... I'm not ready to be leaving home; goodness, I've had two and a half ... and actually giving extra thought to the chores I brand routine: going

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... and get right down to business. What's happened since you last heard from your hero? Well, lots! I took 10.391: Sustainable Energy and learned

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... of struggling to define expectations, going back and forth between ... ourselves two days to locate and contact a good 5-bed, and although the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  provide repairs and basic necessities to homes of impoverished families in ... camp means a lot to me (and that is an understatement if I've ever seen one), as I've attended LAW as a camper since I was able to and it has

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  , and it’s ok to struggle. Everyone does, at some point. And it’s ok to ... bed, and being challenged not as much by psets as by the prospect of a ... loved and will continue to love my community and my extracurriculars and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  . And with that much suck, I should have spent all weekend tooling and ... ). The Watchmakers worked in the Watchmaker Zone, and to help them test, debug, and generally try to break the technologies they were developing, I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... pieces can sell for more on the market) and creating a heat sealer to help ... milano), however their methodology is outdated and tiring causing it to

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  is to explore, educate, and engage the public by creating groundbreaking games, interactive online courses, and new applications to real ... scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  cried. To art school, I got rejected once (I applied secretly and was ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)    

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  group buys, talk about rent, talk about what we need to buy. And I bring ... the option to pick the Menlo Park or New York offices, and I chose Menlo ... , and it's not like I wanted to put in any effort. I told the other two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when ... explicitly says March 31, and I have no reason to think that's incorrect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  being admitted to one of these programs does not mean that you won't be ... one of these programs does not mean you will necessarily be admitted to ... after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005