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• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  decision. let's get to why dating an upperclassman early into freshman year ... . I want them to thrive at MIT, not start dating someone who's getting ... ="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  easy since there are many decisions still to be made. Before things get ... Admitted: To get this answer will be difficult and perhaps a bit frustrating ... this one is the most difficult answer to get. Every student on the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

   (or, getting addicted to success) Soon you're not so special, and that's fine ... harder. It's an easy spiral to go down, and one you get tunnel ... you know that you still have to be successful on paper to get everything

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  get to skip the line of people attempting the test to sign up for a ... ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  . Anyway, detour ending now.] After this I'm hopefully going to get some of ... to get rid of my insecurities. I also have the [annotation note="I'm a ... break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  to get your rational mind with your emotional mind working together to ... get four years, there's plenty to do and plenty of time to do it. Who ... of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a ... call you.) so after getting my diploma I got to spend a lot of time ... to start the fun of taking a million pictures. I normally hate getting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... agency to see if we could arrange something, but as this process was going

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning ... suggested that we apply. I didn't really know what supplies to apply for at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... , I've been settling in to my summer studio apartment, interning the 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of my holidays too?       To kick off the spring

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  your EC now, because you might get to have an EC plus a bonus fractional ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she ... .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  like to hear me talk about getting to MIT and my last days at home then ... response to the first day of class could only be tied to that feeling you get ... at once that you can't get anything out. It's like you have 500000x

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  going to make me happy. Every semester or so, the MIT Press (located to ... where several rooms are lined wall to wall with moderately new books at prices reduced up to 90% off. How could they afford to sell them for such

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  somewhere? And the 8 ivy leaves (haha, get it?) our beaver happens to be ... with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of course). Its been known to help MIT students snag internships, land jobs

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why it's even more satisfying and exciting to see ARTalk get back up and ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings ... gave me. Because I grew up around Chicago and went to college and worked

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my ... cybernetics and himself a prodigy who went to Tufts at 11 and Harvard at 15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  stairs once you get to the end of the hallway. Unfortunately, this concept ... it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out ... , along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005