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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms ... answers and their corresponding dorms to create the quiz for the blogs

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... 's meal, all made here, by us, with friends. (See our calendar for the rest ... pika.) In honor of this especially pika week, here is every pika food

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  importance (biking for fun, blogging, sleep) but hey, saving the world involves ... /Malawian/Ghanaian dirt compares to dirt commonly found in, say... Massachusetts? Or what sort of building materials are just laying around in these countries

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  . In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the email address that you used for your QuestBridge application. Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until you have
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... for them and the less snow, the more they can deny winter exists. For me ... probably my favorite season. I'm just not built for the beaches and heat

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Howdy Where are you guys going to live? Etc.

  

  for an entry to this effect in the next couple of days. ... Thanks to everyone who submitted applications for admissions blogging ... left before the EA deadline, for those of you who are procrastinating

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  choice is yours -- which school is the best fit for you? We knew coming in ... in your life. In the end, wherever you ended up for college, you were ... This post is for those who are moving on from this blog today, May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  If you're admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT's first-year class, you will be asked to submit a formal request for deferment to the Dean
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  it to make it to yours? If you happen to be in the market for advice ... and will put in a good word for you. Applying as an outsider to summer ... in time for me to switch over and develop an understanding of the neuro

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  learning approach is overkill for the problem and datasets at hand. In the ... Exchange for ideas. I mention all of this, in different words, during my ... having the energy to cook. So, for the second day in a row, I’m drinking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  for the amount of activity I’ve done in the last four hours. By the time ... . I sit down for the first time in what feels like an eternity and turn ... . I tell him I’ll go after I work on it alone for awhile. I’m exhausted

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far. It starts out really exciting! You get accepted, everybody cheers for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. My ... applications both in medicine and in fundamental polymer chemistry. MISTI was a

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  some photos from friends who were more brave than I was (click for larger ... .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow ... in this blog post, on Friday morning, that two of our minifigures had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  . UPDATE: I also wrote a post like this for 2020, 2021, and 2022. Things I read for class All of these things I read for 21W.022, Reading and Writing Autobiography. We read a lot of things in that class, and here are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14 ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him ... vaccine for free. My bad. You may be wondering how governments (or, in this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  direct transcript for your reading pleasure: Me: Tell me about your day ... my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... bench in building 4 until my next class which was 6.005 at 11. Um. We

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  up nicely when he posted on Facebook today that "the differential in ... up at 8:30, sat in bed cooing at pictures of adorable baby zoo animals ... friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank goodness for GPS and my 4 co-pilots. So amidst a weekend of planning

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  distinguishes itself not only for its seriousness of purpose but also for its unique sense of humor, as expressed in the arena of hacking. Hacks at the ... campus, around Cambridge, or even farther afield, that amaze for their