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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what ... if you decide to go to college far from home or in a big city. The end ... this link. We hope to see you there!Fly-In ProgramsThis past year, we

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  in an art classroom. To get the straight edges for the background, I ... (I was born in Atlanta). Lineart It was weird to do color first and ... . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  without any concrete plans on how to achieve those goals. In the spirit of ... Notion calendar to track how much I work in both Python and Fusion360 over ... helped me remember how much I liked writing—in 2024, I'm simply hoping to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  producing results. Get in there and demand a challenge. And never be afraid to ... you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning ... meat that will, in the future, help the local slaughterhouse to determine

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  : After a little while, people started to get restless. Being locked in an ... of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three ... for the entire class. I really, really like this class. We get to build

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  information about it! Some of the pictures aren't working, but I'll try to get ... Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college [annotation note="how ... year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply ... extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  in MIT students (if you've come to an information session or read My ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... administrative stuff to do before we can put the decision letters in the mail. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second ... , which used to feel 100 steps away (when in fact it was almost 1 ... thing to do at the time, in some sense it was the right thing to do at the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my projects here in Germany, before heading off to visit an MIT friend of mine ... go is. In the past two years, I have been to: the Netherlands, Belgium

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... Malkovich, still trying to win their first Hunt), and my team, "Lost in Space ... "Restistance is Fuschia"... Getting close to solving another puzzle (maybe "X

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

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... them. I had turned in what I needed to. My essays were some semblance of ... them in even if I wanted to. [annotation note="arguably much shorter

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to ... bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and ... ] get into the habit of stretching after you work out don't try to jump

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to ... this one easy. How many entries to date? Please do not post the answer

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... us to move in right away, b) was big enough for everyone, and c) gave ... gets pretty cold in here. Good thing I’ve got the Wisco blood ;). Ok

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  situation in the most gracious way. Does it still feel bad not to get an A ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes, falling sideways and sticking to everything. I wasn’t brave enough to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016