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• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my ... left campus in… an interesting state, but more importantly, it left Briggs field covered in a thick layer of pure ice. Sections of it were

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... up on my typical habits of putting in way too many photos, but in the ... , then the photos we take are in a format that can't be uploaded easily

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  Edit: Okay, it wasn't split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I ... like though! At MIT, I have explored areas that I never have before in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  : stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. If you want to talk to us in

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  oblong "petals" are created by spinning the poi head in the opposite ... "antispin." In other words, if your arm is moving clockwise, your wrist would ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  . The other day, I called Allen, one of the underclassmen in my wing, and ... videogames. I sometimes play my friend Satya in Smash, and I don’t think I ... , and I’ll probably try to continue playing chess once in a while, too

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  creation, discussion, and appreciation of fashion. Since its launch in 2018 ... out here, range from explorations of South Asian identity to studies in ... looks come to life in the runway show, and additional designers had the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... distance between souls in crisply-produced three-minute bundles. [caption id ... among dark churning waves. In tenth grade, I entered a writing contest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my ... honestly, does the distinction even matter? When I was in my late teens, people would ask, Rona, why did you choose MIT if you're interested in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost ... I haven't! Yay! Insert digression here:   When I was in my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure eventually made me cave in. “Okay, fine! … but just one page.” I closed my ... [annotation note="Not to mention all the in-between cookies-and-cream patterns

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for ... was “you have some of the best ai infrastructure in the world and could

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, and

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  and never look back. If you want to talk to us in the comments below, we

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a ... was pleasantly surprised to be around 4th row in GA pit for 5sos. I ... wasn't in San Francisco proper, it was in Concord). COIN - Sept. 23, 2022

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  about east side culture. i cared that undergrads could paint murals in their dorm hallways and build rollercoasters in their courtyards and get ... did years ago when he lived in floorpi. i tell him about how the culture

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways we did not intend and in ways entirely contrary to our explicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022