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• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too ... how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of crufty alums being around in the last serveral days, in part to various ... point is, it's funny how if you have major changes in your life, like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  wanted people to discover how cool square dancing is. i wanted to give ... 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 / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  fighting over whose boy it really is and refuse to perform together. In how ... to grow peas in Manhattan?” A quotation from my Biological Science ... fake antique industry in Egypt (where she used to live), and in order to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  to ask that if i apply next year as well in case i dont get in now ... unlikely... what grades do we need to send in... as in, how many years (11 ... grades - try not to get a 'D'! If you do get a 'D' in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fold, Throw, Recycle I used to get in trouble for doing things like this.

  

  In kindergarten, I used to get in trouble for throwing paper airplanes in class, but apparently, that's not the case at MIT. I received this email just now in my inbox. I might try to revive my skills. For

  • by Bryan
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  keeps sending me mail. 12.How to get into MIT . . . literally. As in which ... in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even grown closer) since being sent home due to COVID-19. Staying in contact

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• 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 / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  in Mumbai to get a rare opportunity in project planning on a major oil ... working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to ... need to decide which classes to take and where that will lead me. That in

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  , getting lunch at the cafe in Stata. I couldn't have imagined just how full ... Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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