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• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  Corridor. Maybe you'll get to see MIThenge.   Eat in the ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  't get to be Tim the Beaver, which cut me pretty deep. I haven't updated in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... ... Got to learn how to drive stick-shift: Got to stand next to some big

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? At MIT, we seek to develop in each ... something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  in Boston How to get to place to sleep How to get back to the ... change it when I get in to see if there's anything else but I'll keep u ... to the same place as me, maybe I should get in line too? There’s only

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  "right" things to get into the "right" colleges, they will be happy, in the ... 't get a chance to thank you in person so here it is, "thank you". My ... colleges to reach out to students in larger numbers, in some cases bordering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to ... Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  - even easier - than before. With that in mind, I invite you to ... 've yet to apply, this will help you out. Go back in time to your earliest ... ; notice how your situation changed. Remember times in which you ran into

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... first rehearsal to load-in to the first tech to the last night. Just ask ... interviewed to be the Sound Designer for the Musical Theater Guild's (MTG

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... there to do in suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? Well, not too much ... went to the only Starbucks in a 10 mile radius (formerly the greatest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i have to listen to it as soon as possible. after all, ignorance is how i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier ... ’t work? Am I just bad at doing research? In some ways, the answer to that ... and guidance, I was afraid of being seen as incompetent; unable to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even ... , but it also prepared me to get through this really really rough patch in ... good friend. As people were running around trying to squeeze in all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... in the Green Building. I insisted to my boyfriend that I wanted to do ... face. It looked very steep. I started to get apprehensive. When we

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  , and instead to store it safely in your inbox. How you do this will ... 's application cycle here. As you consider when and how you want to apply, please ... we're asking it, to help you get the information you need as quickly as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... aggressively push the lever up and down in order for the toaster to heat up

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... their living group. In the Haus, food gets brought to our lovely front ... confusing mess of “Where do I start? How do I start? When will I have time to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  : Know how to whistle while sucking in, instead of blowing out. Step 2 ... to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... pens, I might as well work for Livescribe and get paid to do it, right

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009