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• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who ... your first (and likely primary) email address while you're at MIT, you'll have the ability to edit files at http://web.mit.edu/username, and it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... edged into those rare un-mathematical intervals of time. To start: I had

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  telling you about my bitterness? Because it's an important part of my life. No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  -intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class ... analysis of natural disasters on natural resource firms) and a 10 page ... maximization). As you may have guessed, 14.33 also requires a lot of work. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  at least 4 full days each week (including weekends), in addition to the ... the same guidelines. Ultimately, we do not admit anyone until all of the ... in the background [of the stack of applications]." I need my music

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  first regional meeting of the year, Thursday night in Orlando/Winter Park, FL. Amy has already flown to Texas in advance of her meeting in Dallas ... happens at these meetings? What should you expect? First, the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... strictly true. Today should be day 11 of my diet, but on day 2 I feasted on ... pipet all day. And then I come home at night and watch Law and Order: SVU

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  spent a lot of time walking and riding my bike, exploring Cambridge and ... is posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2025 at 2:19 PM Eastern Time ... And becomes a sea of lava.   The wind howls and whispers

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win ... “craft bold, memorable designs that capture the unique spirit of the Class

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... house where cats will come out of room C only if either room A or room B

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  ’t have happened if I weren’t single. Maybe some of you are fantastic at ... Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine ... ’t interested in getting involved in anything romantic with anybody at the moment

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  the rest of my years at MIT. right now, i'm living in a house with six ... remind us of how quickly everything changed. the craziest, most tumultuous days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  The first round of application deadlines are upon you, which means ... chipping away at them more slowly than usual because the volume has been so ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

    In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short ... sleeve shirt instead of my sister's Tin-Tin t-shirt with the arms cut

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  could look at even more pictures, videos, and details of our trip in this ... Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students, professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted, however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... different. There’s so many types of puzzles, ranging in shape, color, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  . On Floor Pi, one of our traditions is this event called tea time. It ... communities do you most value being a part of?" But often, discussion strays ... into math, but we have a hard rule of "no math during tea time".) I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  ; Reasons not go: The event starts at 8am. My sleep schedule has been ... would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance ... few hours, woke up, rolled out of bed, splashed my face with cold water

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  you at that time." Some of you have graduated already and have no new ... The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at http://my.mit.edu. To announce this, Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010