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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  morning with a sore throat if you don't waking up at 7:15 is too early ... not as a programmer drivers in LA don't know how to use their blinkers ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren't ... isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... 've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... list probably won’t get done anyways. So here are some things I wanna ... ’s violin Learn 3 new coding languages 3D print something  Use a sewing

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully ... built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... feels like we’re presenting a small town middle school science fair

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or squandered time, but it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or boring, but, if you take

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  World AIDS Day 2008 Spread the word.

  

  and can't actually go to the screening, but I've found a link to the ... , spread awareness, wear a ribbon, post a ribbon. There are also some events around campus, including a "film" screening by lbgt@MIT. Tonight at 5

  • by Snively '11
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  up being a student at X or Y school is also something you can't ... us a happy pi day, and I realized that today was the day, and in t ... rank. We like to decide on a cold, hard, set of ambitions that don’t

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  some sanity) that you'll ever encounter. Don't get a sheltered ... scary? So what! Live a little, get over here (I live in EC, and I don't ... and get here, and if you are, you shouldn't waste too much time reading

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  . Now here's how the morning started. I'll admit that I don't read the ... everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me: Yea, I know that. She's an MIT professor. Friend: No, she's a GENIUS. Me

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... on February 29th, [annotation note="A shame. One year away from a truly glorious date."]1968[/annotation]. Random Hall also has a tradition of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  shell out millions for a kid's science-fiction fantasy wasn't easy. After ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... Dheera Venkatraman, a crafty MIT student, has just completed the latest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan. I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... injury. I'm a little accident-prone.

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  would be the point exactly? Your interview report shouldn't be just a ... same things but do it in a detailed way that there just isn't room for in ... were to be a student at MIT today. While they don't compare you to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  massage chair (that didn't pass). Someone suggested getting a Simmons ... There’s a trampoline in Simmons!!!! [caption id="attachment_94960 ... , and 2 days ago they were finally unpacked. Inside was a TRAMPOLINE!!1

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  of 1929 when senior class president C. Brigham Allen brought together a member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... Ring. They couldn't decide whether to put the beaver or the Dome on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  've said that I don't care, that I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through ... "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be ... stifling. We just couldn't wait to get out of the place. (13) Enjoy!

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  doesn't feel too powerful at first but once you have a lot stored on ... , everywhere I go. You don't need to purchase a Kindle, just get the app ... schoolwork, clubs, fraternity, and side projects, I'm constantly searching for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  another. You don't need to have pulled a child from a burning building or ... I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  little time we had left. a few sections hadn't been taught, barely any ... i'm on the hip-hop dance team Mocha Moves. every February, we put on a show that's composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022