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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  . It's odd to think about it in this way, but MIT is one of the last ... vision of the future - which is to say that I'll have what it takes to ... 't even a good incentive to do it, then frankly, I don't know what is. For

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  infinite universe, but is it really possible? Can we use our finite lives to ... harms our creativity by subduing it to an audience. This is dangerous ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  . but our bosses sometimes buy us boba so it's okay here is the title ... creation process, so without further ado here it is! 1. Storyboarding Angela ... of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  MIT is about risk. It’s a place where you put yourself out there ... number duty, and as it turns out, counting upwards is pretty damn hard ... chalk, and about a quarter mile, we made it to the 1000th square! We

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  another half hour. This wasn't ideal, but at least it gave me time to buy a ... , everything is close, which allows for easy travel to different cities and ... problem, I could afford to wait for a little bit. Problem was, it didn't say

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... from actually loving it enough to achieve mastery. Playing the violin in an orchestra paled in comparison to playing guitar with friends. It

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot" on your resume--but nevertheless it is important to know yourself ... , maintain work-life balance. It's safe to say I'm a different person than the ... , I recommend you seriously consider it. That kind of time is both

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to ... . Back at my bed, I suddenly had enough energy to pull out my phone and ... 8 am.The sun was up. Everyone else was waking up. It was time to call

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  which the hero goes it alone to kill the bad guys, and avenge those who ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... he lives, thus he is reactionary in his approach to education. Mills

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  this is not a good thing). It's really nice to walk around and know ... probably in a month or so). Fencing is so fun! I like it a lot. I hope to ... it or b) absolutely have to. But even with (b), I don't recommend it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... effects is so paramount in my life that it surprises others and myself when I admit that I haven't been doing it as much as I'd like to. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  to try a new recipe, so once the bread is rising on its own, I'll cook ... this time when no one's life looks like it used to or like they expected it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  bicycle at MIT? I was not able to attend CPW so it is like hard to imagine ... Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... to incompetent peer reviewers. And that is how science works. To take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , which I will not link here. The reason it's so disturbing is beause it's written so well—the idea is to let the readers fill in the feelings of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat ... yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  to see that humor is valued as much as other "typical" applicant ... that a good sense of humor is important.” And it’s not just engineering ... self-important. It also shows that, while work is important, we're human

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95 ... interconnected neurons, give rise to our mind—our consciousness and ability to
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  , it would be ice cream. Fortunately, here at MIT, ice cream is only a ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our ... . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  ’t verbalized to myself: it is okay to not know everything right now. The ... over life. This post is a bit tricky to write because it’s actually ... with friends, figuring out who I was.  It is okay to tell yourself “I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  vector is “something that has intrinsic pointiness.” (This also happens to ... 're really gentle. (This is literally the extent to which we covered topology ... , is brunch. Speaking of brunch, I had it, non-metaphorically. On a cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010