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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  back to me). Anyway, at this point, there is really no place for the snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet ... in response to fans/kids but just generally interesting. (Check out the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... complain enough about how much[annotation note="The short version is, I ... honestly didn’t expect to love New York as much as I did, even though the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to ... -dish pizza in Chicago while listening to a special performance by the MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  . To state the obvious, AI in particular is reshaping geopolitics, our ... is founding the College, in part, to educate students in every ... consequences our society is not yet equipped to control or withstand. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  across the bridge to my house. I don't feel in danger, the public transit ... Reddit and ask how to be safer in the city, only to be met with friends and ... , though. I know what is safe and what isn't down to the crossroads. I know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... ) flew by quickly. That is until we got to the arachnids exhibit (finally ... all decided to get fruit juice at some random juice bar in the middle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes ... out of the 20th century. So putting this in the context of your ... don't know know? 4. What type of environments are most conducive to

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  more to go. 12:05 PM – I head back to the maker lab in building E25 to ... , I have been invited to the Biology Undergraduate dinner which is ... time for me to process the last four years and what awaits me in the next

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... a shuttle across the bay to Berkeley. Dinner is pizza and beer at the ... . Tonight I'll go out to dinner with current grad students in the cell biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  Chinatown (and I live in Minneapolis, the state's epicenter), so I HAD to make ... -so-cute-yet-not-very-intimidating mascot) crowd surfing later in the night? It was the perfect end to a ... , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... home. In my next few entries leading up to the Mystery Hunt, I'll link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  just didn't have the mental stamina nor capacity to handle that much ... was most prevalent in the beginning of my freshmen year, when freshmen ... DPhiE. And so, despite knowing I vibed with the people much better in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  he says it’s harder to work on them in the city, and lately, his ... originally in the smaller uneven double, but moved to the bigger one at the end ... most of his problem sets from this desk. Right next to it is a wall

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... doesn’t get stolen. In the darkness, I hear whispering sounds. Is it just ... apply to grad school. Your life is so much more than sets and lectures and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  exercise to the reader. Bad chemistry This last roadmap is arguably the most ... final exam? (Yes) Is it possible to have a [annotation note="The average ... ) Most of the resulting roadmaps are rather… questionable, to say the least

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  . What field of study appeals to you the most right now? (100/100) I applied to MIT largely because of the program in Urban Science and Planning ... the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  bookstore in NYC and bought it for me on the spot. i finally got around to ... thinking about the CMS thesis that i am soon to write and how much i would ... super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  back in to help manage the closing show. I tell you this terrible ... slow cook the ribs in the oven, and then transfer them to the barbecue ... and will absorb much of the flavor that you use in the initial rub

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  to next house. as the swipe entry is in most cases inaccessible to me ... archaic: it is, to say the least, in need of repair. i am not sure which i ... enough to survive out in the wild. Thankfully was able to enter the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  . Rockapella is probably one of the most famous examples of a cappella.) Kim actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I used to be in the Logs (back ... shameless plug for the event I'm running! You all should definitely come to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009