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• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  breath, close your eyes, and count to ten. Applying to college is really ... biggest things I think we want to get caught up in is the number game ... there is more to your application than that, and MIT is looking for more

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  greater area, it is easier to navigate around them Harvard classes in ... lecturer was British   That’s all there is to it! I enjoy this class ... to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... context. We believe it is crucial for the successful future of our world to ... attract people from many backgrounds and worldviews to apply. It is the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  RAM, which is neat too. It’s also way lighter and feels nicer to carry ... understand what they're talking about without having to look it up. Is this ... and it is relevant to linear programming so i am including it here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  ! It's pretty simple right now, but there is always room to code ... try. Because it is in our DNA. Because this is what drew us to MIT in ... and all of their connections to each other. This is where you decide

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one student to know where all the makerspaces are. PhD student Rima Das is ... characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us ... saw were working on a new rendition of its elegant figure to stack onto ... it so often they no longer had to reference it, or if they climbed the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  want to; and it is not better to fill it more, or as much as possible, but it is better exactly and only to do what makes you happier -- with ... good thing if what it creates for me is happiness. It does not need to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... -abandoned car (or maybe it was for sale?) and a series of what appeared to be ... relied on Ethan’s (’12) phone GPS to get back to the house, but it didn

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT ... had to dance. I cannot dance. And there is video evidence ... The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  PSET is open source so I'm allowed to post it. So, you know what the ... knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other ... an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  decided to head down to the athletic center to check it out. I happened to ... University in South Korea, where it's possible to major in taekwondo like an ... die instantly. So, it's better to err on the side of caution here. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... partners and scour their campuses for the most innovative student startups to ... is an investment partner there, I've been following them ever since

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  great. It’s nice and cool outside, so you go to sit on the front porch ... still has a nice ring to it. Loosely playing along, you start to knock out ... rip it out of the sky/I've tried about a million times/To shine the way

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  , which is much closer to an actual fire than most of our alarms are. It ... body to Mars" is "periareion." My dorm, Burton-Conner, is the best. Even ... 's it. It's rare for any freshman to live in Burton-Conner for more than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is ... on the roofdeck. Boffing is very popular at Random - well, it's popular ... , with airholes poked in the end to keep it soft. These guys were moving

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  whose major function is to serve as a structural base which recruits and ... . Pretend you couldn't tell.) Shank1 is such a scaffold protein. It was ... which had no copies of Shank1. What's known about Shank1 is that it's a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  ? Well, it's this wonderful machine shop that MIT students can use to make ... wonderful and free as the Edgerton Shop, the only catch is that you have to ... -find, or determine where the tip of the tool is relative to the edges of your

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  North America, and is home to over 1.3 million trees, shrubs, and woody ... in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  move it to a different file. No one says, this is a very personal blog ... need still feels present. Is it really a need to be seen and appreciated ... even worse about it, I guess, is because to other people it seems to come

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021