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• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  HAS A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF CAPITALS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!   VERY IMPORTANT INFO: First, you should have already been contacted by ... students, so it's best for everyone if logistics are handled ahead of time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  Chaplain. This inspired a letter to the editor of the Tech by someone who ... checking the IAP events schedule pretty regularly, but unfortunately, most of ... work hours. But today I was finally able to attend one of the seminars I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  , two change of majors forms, and many advisor meetings initiated by ... research has to offer. By the April of my freshman year, I declared 6-9 as my ... make my visions a reality.  I actually wrote 6.3 instead of 6-3. Thank

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  from that group. Remember, Top Gun was judged by the farthest pair of ... announced. I didn't win. Not by far; I was third in our class of five. Our ... Sport air pistol, the PE class I took this quarter, was taught by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  by a person at the surface. Most of my work for this UROP has focused ... One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... [annotation note="One of the most eventful days of the UROP, haha"]random day

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  -surprised by how easy it was to give Up-Goer Five names to these groups of hard ... right, of course by figuring out many game-problems that helped us bring ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  ="290"] fairy by Johann Heinrich. Legends of the Fae, originating in ... worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and ... of Ireland. I love this type of legend cycle, where there are many

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  the field"]t.l. taylor's[/annotation] class by the skin of my teeth! the ... way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  historically as well as today. The lecture was followed by a screening of the ... (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  getting rejected by a lot of things. I've been dating the same person for a ... things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  . New World Symphony Wow, I just managed to, by way of an obscure ... Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl   With her nails painted black and the whole of the world Turning

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  taken over by fill-in-the-blank item of extreme hosage: this summer, it ... opportunity to do anything through the Office of the Arts, by all means take it ... Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  handful of questions I'm almost always asked. So, what I'm going to do is answer three of the most frequently asked questions here and now, so that you don't have to ask (not that I mind questions). All of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  disappearing by the whim of a magical cataclysmic comet. As someone who ... written by Pendleton Ward that follows Finn the Human and Jake the Dog and ... , where he swore it was one of his favorite shows ever and insisted I watch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  -mail address, financial aid information, a DVD with videos made by each of the ... cultural houses), the western half of the floor was separated by the eastern ... part of Russian House and was occupied by the faculty director of Russian

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  got flattened by psychotic Boston drivers a couple of times. But the T ... . Thought of the day This thought is brought to you by Adam, who is cranking ... by 1 or 2, you'll be able to get plenty of sleep. 2. Anthony, who is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  branching structure is more linear. It's governed by the passage of time. In A Boring Friday you're reminded of this by having the time repeated often ... you read most of the text. Choices that aren't listed don't matter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It ... the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away But I love

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm. Working to restore flux capacitors...please stand by.  Update 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015