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• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a ... choice anyway, because it was exactly what I really wanted but was not confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  awesome it is to build a solar car from scratch, and how we should ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... , that it seems as if we are all part of the progress. When there is an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team ... written by them, and they'll be writing next year's hunt too, so it should

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  , figure out what you want to say, and then figure out how to say it.   Conversation #2 (assuming there is an answer to my first question) Me: Does the ... .  How am I supposed to know what is most important? Me:  You decide what

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  than your grades.  It happens to everyone sooner or later, if The Tech's special issue on stress is anything to go by. (If you haven't read it yet ... to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to graduate school; it is not a second chance at being at MIT, but it ... change that i hope to see around me. part of it is simply just that my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... abbreviation for Reserve Officer Training Corps. It is a training program ... year to year: freshman year it’s learning, sophomore year it’s preparing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  ever, ever, EVER refers to it as "Joisy." This is a Brooklyn accent, not ... experience here, and let me tell you- it is so, so, SO hard to keep up. That ... means that I am writing entries about what it's like to be an MIT student

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  in and out of downtown, but that’s it), so it was important to me to ... : it’s in Boston! (well technically Cambridge, but you know, still the “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  syndrome, but oh well. No amount of achievement is going to soothe that as ... , but I turned it into a source of motivation to make tenth grade better ... ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met later than us get engaged already. What happened to my Facebook feed? It ... year and it’s a good chance to see everybody before the semester begins

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  away enough free time to do more science? Is it vanity? Is it masochism? Is it all an elaborate conspiracy, and have our thumbnail pictures ... balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  beanbag in the sun :( we hate sun it burns[/caption] 4. banana lounge is ... ="alignright" width="752"] Barker is under the big dome! It is well-lit and very cold ... . Whenever I go to do work, the lights are low, and everything is all dark and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  World Report rankings and is known globally for its world-class faculty ... ; Computer Science (EECS) is everywhere. Each year, EECS prepares hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students to become leaders in diverse career fields
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to ... Curie, Paris). It explaines why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  hanging out with someone. Maybe I’m doing it to avoid the thoughts that I ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this post took way more effort than it normally would have. Anyway, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather ... 'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of interest to you. So if you don't mind, post some topics you'd like to hear

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bryan is alive and in Rome Day One In Rome

  

  We got here safely, and we're having a blast. I'll write a longer entry when I find free wireless, but right now it's costing 3 euros an hour and I have a lot of emails to respond to. (Thanks for all the emails

  • by Bryan
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  it, that you can't understand until they happen to you. And then there ... , flying is not looking so hot right now. When I moved back to Cambridge this ... is easy these days. Fact 1: my internship switched to being a Canadian

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020