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• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  a bunk bed (to save space, #6 on this list), for the first time in my ... enough training for at least a Bronze medal in the Olympics. I'd like to ... cu. Ft.), I hope and pray that somehow, perhaps for Christmas, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... more substantial. It's also always helpful to have the book put out for ... credit for Calculus BC, you don't have to test out of single

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  : good blog,I am doing research for my Daughter,she wants to apply to MIT ... .009 meeting, and then pack for a spontaneous 24 hour trip back to the greatest ... get off campus for awhile. I'm even more confident to not continue on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  of Fortress Awesome invite you to their castle for a glorious feast ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to ... exciting. My advice to you— If you brought homework, don’t do it. Meet people

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  just waiting to teach you more. For example, as a first-semester freshman ... it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  Hall to taste liquid nitrogen ice cream. Tons of prefrosh were packed ... " for "Next Act." During my time at CPW, I managed to visit every dorm ... at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have some time to share some MIT funnies. These are examples of things that ... Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  mathematician can have, or necessary for success. It’s important to celebrate ... 've essentially followed the "path of most math" for most of my life up to this ... [annotation note="Misheel: it is important to contrast the need for dfs in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt ... puzzle...but it was definitely worth it. For "That'll Tichu to Mess With ... 't anywhere near enough to get us close to winning, we all had a ton of fun

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  used it to try out embroidery."]embroidery kit[/annotation] for Christmas ... (infamously) asked me that night if I wanted my own pie. This is what I get for allowing her to see me binge dining hall food.[/caption] My freshman year, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  conference was really fun. I met a ton of people AND got to swim on a Florida ... For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... funny.’ Thanks for that, Jennifer. At least I didn’t have to switch ... be for thrashing about even more, trying to consolidate the least awful

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  look forward to. There’s still a ton I don’t have the answers for, like whether to stay at MIT for a PhD, how to convince other people to take me ... apples. They’re just okay. It’s really all for the opportunity to frolic

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , Snively 0. I started looking for a place to stash my skates but there wasn ... settled in to wait for the show. It's 8:00 PM at this point. The lighting ... 're waiting, we have some folks that would like to thank you for coming by

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose ... Mother, waiting for her to add her voice to mine, but she was silent. Her ... dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so ... , without having to wait for a traffic light, but they aren’t really that ... crossing without a stoplight, cars will wait for you to cross. They like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  idea of how to approach it. Luckily for me (and for some of you), MIT ... /what class?). For me, this gave me a useful chance to not only explore the ... already knew how to do things when they were easy for me, but I didn

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  on forever). I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the ... ;s also a host for many talks related to photography. Since MIT is an ... "Doc" Edgerton invented high-speed stroboscopic photography, and to this

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  heavy it began to feel. We began to think about the whole thing more ... . Logged in. Waited for our screens to load. It was all too familiar ... for us. So, we just want to let you know, that no matter what any

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  pieces of paper for no reason.] There also has to be potential for this to ... acquire all of these cards? For each students to have a twelve-card pack, plus extras for OLs and staff, we'd need 16,200 cut cards. I wanted to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025