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• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  window. The first time we dragged our suitcases to our room in Next, the ... . Dining hall food is not my thing, but on the advice of a fourth year in my ... a cafeteria floor, but the carpet in the halls is nice. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag ... connected to Star Market, where most MIT students buy their groceries if they ... out, so I turned around just in time to duck. I was one of the closest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  . The typical track that most people submit to is the 'full paper' track ... was going to have me submit to the Student Game Design Competition in ... some context in the area you're researching, what you're going to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  Qichen and Alex pretended to look at something in the sky, while I watched ... group decided to split up (for the most part) and branch out! I stayed ... the music) in the middle of Battle of the Bands to go to the dumpling

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... decided to wake up in time for it. We spent the majority of class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  making a decision. random person, "Hrm, not sure if this is the place to ... is a perfectly reasonable questions. You should be in touch with the ... , there doesn't seem to be much point to staying on the waitlist... Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one ... may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from ... backstory is that in EC, the singles are big and the doubles are small. (I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... become the best statistician in the world may try to take every statistics ... in that regard too. Most lab-based classes also require me to be in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  to buy tuxedos in Porter Square, because our wing is a big fan of the ... most kept me going this semester. It is the joy found in the spontaneous ... been much pain in the semester, but there is no discounting a certain joy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  exaggerate myself too much on the blogs? Is this my real self or is it someone I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned ... think it's done some good in the world, too, no matter how tiny it is. You

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... -historyposting-instincts beginning to tingle. At the very bottom of the cabinet, I found the most ... , in perfect condition. I had no choice but to assume this copy of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  Preparing for College or not*

  

  on the blogs is pre-frosh, which means there is no one to write in real ... .[/annotation] So it’s not that I don’t want to see them, I do. The problem is how ... putting off: Buying new clothes (because my wardrobe is still stuck in 10

  • by Hala K. '29
  • August 15, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  's gossip. One of the most satisfying feelings in the world is being a ... much more fulfilling, than responding in kind. Sometimes it's better to ... procure it. You can buy fancy clothes and blue steel at the mirror in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  would be forced to rely on their weaker hand as much as possible. In the ... to jam up if adjacent keys were struck rapidly in succession. So, the ... breakage at all. To accomplish the latter, designers placed the most common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  grades in classes and decide what I would need to NR a class. The ... from rotting in building 4[/caption] These problems were, to say the least, not reassuring in my ability to pass the final! I ended up having

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... ” (pictured on the right) to fit in. The Admissions folks spend months crafting ... . Perhaps this ties to misconception #1. The MIT admissions process is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT ... bathtub" -- how cool is internet in the bathtub? You can be playing in a ... Well, this is my last day in Ahia (try saying it with me -- "Uh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  to the application fee, choose the fee waiver option. There is no need ...  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... unofficial score report faxed or mailed in the meantime. You can mail it to MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  decorate the living room and what kitchen utensils to buy or get rid of. In ... used to be. (Aren't we all :P) Everything is the same and different, all ... a lot more motivated to get out my helmet. The best part is that now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022