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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  crossovers in socal MIT Students Visit Caltech and UCLA

  

  places. This past weekend, I’ve traveled hundreds of miles in the LA area to introduce my friend Peyton to parts of my world. Peyton is one of ... (a Caltech undergraduate dorm) the past few weeks with a friend of a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 6, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  some context: web.lab / 6.148 is a web development course offered ... ; you can find our site here spend dozens of hours reading through code ... . identify every instance of outdated code and rewrite everything in terms of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I ... time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  support services does MIT provide?  MIT offers a lot of resources. The ... conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  poorly in classes, MIT can rescind your offer of admissions.(In fact, many ... Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... 's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  hundreds of MIT students but also thousands of dedicated puzzlers from all ... [annotation note="literally, I got about eight hours of sleep total that weekend ... associated with[annotation note="tetazoo and putz, two floors of east campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... idea of a long-distance bike trip caught my attention. I had never

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  . After trying dozens of them and seeing which ones most of my friends use ... list of programs (not including the ones you get from MIT for free) that you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2.5”x3.5” pieces of paper. I am putting the finishing touches on my Magnum ... Orientation Captain! I got [annotation note="captain of the white team 🤪

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  taken made it look like some sort of captcha. I offered to help with the ... ? KN6OQK” “i wann chimken” “what do they have? KC1RQI” “rice? soop of ... quarantine. It started with a regular Wikipedia rabbit hole, but out of extreme

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was psetting at Next House during spring semester of freshman year when Will ... this video of Will (CubanCrescendo!) singing JJ Lin’s “我很想爱她”, recorded

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions ... of these things happened Oral surgery - Jan. 25 20th Birthday

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  , which runs throughout the month of January"]IAP.[/annotation] I also got hit with a case of writer's block, so I went through at least five ... the wall collect a whole box-full of water bottles so we could make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  film for [annotation note='The film was announced in December of 2012, and I found out about Wicked in November of 2014.']LITERALLY 10 YEARS.[/annotation]    I HAVE BEEN SIMMERING. BUZZING. WAITING ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a ... that you could get D's in most of your classes and it wouldn't affect

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... : Gryffindor + INFJ End of Freshman IAP: Gryffindor + ENFP End of Freshman Year ... 'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  . Concourse offers its own versions of the[annotation note="General Institute ... Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... , after I watched like one episode of [annotation note="I also had a brief

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  off every day, leaving you with 1) an invariable daily sense of ... . 1. Control your thoughts. Do not think of anything violent or ... protective shield of white light, or in a safe place. Telepathic EBEs may get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006