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• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  we would for sure do it, seriously). “Can you wake me up early tomorrow ... rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  on the project. When a newspaper calls me up and asks for comments, I ... David Helfand: "Unfortunately we don't have time for a formal Q&A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of ... recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it ... for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  circumstances I chose to put myself up for election, because I felt like I had ... this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me, this slow crescendo of ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  play] together.  But let's be real. I had no idea what I signed up for ... up for FOUR HOURS of a thing I didn't even understand! And the ... , and is set up in a discussion-focused style with debates and discourse

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... 't end up investing a lot of time in this class. If I could choose my courses again for this semester, I think I would've just taken something

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not ... -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from freshman year, although, for many reasons, I still think freshman year

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  to enjoy some nice steak. The steak made up for it. Brass Rat 2017 ... ; Raivo and I were the first to come up, giving a quick talk on the history ... Comm members went up and revealed the design of our 2017 Brass Rat bezel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  qualified for nationals after placing fourth in New England, while the men ... trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone ... to give it another going over. This time we made time for a photo op

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  night of sleep for a long time. The next morning I met Sara '11 at South ... and CSAIL for a tour, which is when the fun actually began. This is where I encountered "The Group". For the last several months there has

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on ... drafts leading up to A New Hope show a vast improement in quality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... engaged with the other half. Chalk it up to being the first time in most

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  up talking to for a bit about how he became interested in jewelry ... up with blogging to my current life, but words are hard. Nothing ... trip, for three days last summer, and for a week during spring break as

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... dyed over it with red and of course, that’s refused to wash out for the past month. i crocheted a red scarf for myself earlier this year, and my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  of these stories just… end, i guess, which sucks. so i speak for myself, and i only do want to speak for myself, when i say that my ... opening up your problems to a friend, say. sometimes that difference is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  ), but of course i never ended up finishing a single one. now that i have ... bass and have essentially set the others aside for now. the day before ... it gets for basslines and for joe dart. now i'm trying to learn beastly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  (not for class).   For some reason I then wound up on the fourth floor ... For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  It is difficult for me to accept that the MIT Blogs are turning 10 ... downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... for high school students to join -- we had to wait until May to get our

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  California for ten years now, but unlike other sun-loving transplants, I ... , crispy leaves ripe for the leaping, apple picking, cinnamon and nutmeg ... pie I found on the internet for all you visual learners out there. Two

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  inefficient when you end up working. Ask for help! From your TAs, from your ... I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011