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• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through ... like chemistry stupid (which, unfortunately, happens very often at mit ... mean is that these are problems many of my friends struggle deeply with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  of classes at MIT, and breathed out a huge sigh of relief. Saturday ... finished coloring my last doodle at 3 a.m. and felt this sense of peace ... view out of my kitchen window every day, featuring the moon, the Charles

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It's like a big series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It's kind of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of ... Every few seasons, the hallowed concrete walls of Simmons Hall come alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... the MIT Class of 2027, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have ... and blacksmiths — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... about this rencomm and what their mandate would be. at the turn of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < <   You can ... , one of our decision servers has decided to self-isolate from the rest of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  of 2019 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < ... 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  watch a video of me speaking at the most recent Maker Faire in New York ... This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  whole lot of food: Teamwork at its finest! April browns the meat, Rick ... some pictures too. As Sam mentioned, our floor, Conner 2, goes kind of ... ...I probably slept instead. I'm not much of a baker, anyway. There was plenty of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  On July 6, the world eagerly watched as London was named the host of ... 're evaluating Class of 2010 applications), Torino, Italy, will host the 2006 ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  lattice. visually, think a carbon atom placed at every intersection of ... parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, which runs throughout most of ... to have to take off at least one day of classes. I also have to finish

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Program"]UROP[/annotation] with the Tangible Media Group (TMG) at the MIT ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... members on stage at the end of their set, cutting off their last song. Not ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012