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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of ... we put there that would be worthy of all the attention it'd receive ... for us, since I didn't know the first thing about wood, drywall, or

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  "Blowing up the alamo into pieces then hiding out in the mountains", I admire ... 're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work. It could get a whole 7 points. I don't care. Sure it was a bummer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  Six and a half hours ago, this was me: Why? Because I, like Elizabeth, am officially done with finals!!! I left campus about 2 hours ago, and ... airport is packed, and I've already spotted several MIT hoodies and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is ... early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  I'm not a big sports fan. Never have been. Nashville doesn't have ... Titans, and they only moved there when I was 11. In the past, I've only passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I ... college. "I realized I had forgotten the joy of doing basic physics problems," he said. "I began to see that there was an option that I had never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  [by Gilad Evrony '07] I think it was around junior year that it ... learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  class i'm not sure how to phrase this in a way that doesn't come off as ... provide a direct route). this is actually how i met my roommate and really ... 11:07-11:33 PM: i got distracted again. here's what i did the past

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  honest, it's not like I would have been doing much else back in my dorm ... As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible moment, Registration Day (last Tuesday, September 7). I know some people

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  how they shake— see, I never knew this until you left, how radio ... Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... -digit decimal figure. How anticlimactic. This last semester passed by in a flash ... -hour trip back from boston, i started and finished the brief wondrous

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly hairy trig integral, or how to predict the products of that incredibly complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... Okay, so it's really 52, but who's counting? So far I've been fairly serious with my entries about the college admissions process. I think that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the temperature scales and wow is the difference visible. The CPW weather machine is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film ... Friday night if you're here for CPW! I quote, See the folks behind the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  how much it really looks like Evie. Check it out! The origami Evie ... February 21). I expect to see some nice entries; I'll post them when the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt). There are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit ... call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I ... -- can you explain how The Mystery Spot works?!

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  improvement is part of how you can jump to the next step of adulthood. I think a ... This summer, I became obsessed with climbing. Climbing is an exercise ... you should subvert it to go beyond what you can do. — I'm stuck on the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023