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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  love for reading and keep up with it, even if I have to wait for less ... ended up re-reading the whole Harry Potter series (fan for life) and the ... home, and have swallowed up Purple Hibiscus, White is For Witching, The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about ... ridiculous the whole thing was. Then we ended up talking for the better part of ... usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  sure does keep me up at night sometimes. if not for the price the food ... ’t toast it up more. my fault for getting the rainbow bagel instead of the ... chocolate sauce) viet coffee (very coffee forward. useful for waking up

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... was incredibly knowledgeable, approachable, and kind. When I asked for help, I received it. I wasn't prepared for the level of rigor that this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  Everything's going just fine! I'm registered for classes, the grad ... vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters, my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  signed up for – this was going to be strictly for myself. And in that sense ... differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my last IAP not doing much and ended up feeling pretty sluggish going into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  coding project out there! Honestly, I'm super proud of us for coming up ... Spotify artist's "Dogg Number". That's the header for our HackMIT project ... among my friends for the past year, mostly because when I found it, I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn ... direction (up/down/left/right). players choose from a variety of songs; when a ... typical sequence of arrows[/caption] i ended up enjoying ddr a lot more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  session. even though i ended up not applying for the program, i'm a weeb and ... things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun ... , rowers float their way past my window. My roommate's prefrosh is up early

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... ,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this ... success. After an hour in which nobody showed up, followed by another hour

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in ... was important to stay in shape and to keep my mind off school for some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  and/or answer an email! For starters, MacGregor is divided up into 9 ... there are tens of other resources out there for the general process ... , when the last of the freshmen are moving onto campus for orientation into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  weekend, we signed up for a canoeing trip and picnic lunch along the Charles ... announcements for free activities. Over Memorial Day weekend, we met the Boston 1 ... “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  to run up until the Friday of that week. So basically, you're learning ... bigger!): Not pictured: The wake for my recently-lost composure Couple ... IT IS IMPORTANTYes. That's MIT tip number one: when studying for long

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  Hey prefrosh! Welcome to campus! If you're not here yet, hurry up ... ". Although your host is probably a fairly awesome person, they'll be around for ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  what he's up to. "What d-d-d-did you have for d-d-d-dinner? EASY ... over for a job at the C.I.A Whoa, hold up, what? Yea, the C.I.A was ... stroking for the day, the real reason is because today was so cool, so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  the Admissions Department has cooked up for its Early Action admits. If ... dreaming up MyMIT and the blogs, and to everything else that goes on behind ... , arriving in mailboxes across the nation just in time for everyone to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  looking for a team can sign up as unattached hunters. New hunters always ... and historian for Opera Boston Tue Jan 16, Thu Jan 18, Tue Jan 23, Thu Jan 25, 10:30am-01:00pm, 4-160 No enrollment limit, no advance sign up

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007