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• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year’s Affirmations can i run MIT affirm id be so good at it 🥺

  

  a new year naturally lends to new affirmations, and as I waited for my ... cancelled due to crew timeouts), I composed a list of new affirmations ... This blog is to all the affirmers out there. Especially any that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  summer, we are happy to announce our new bloggers! Please give a warm welcome to: Hala K. ‘29 from Michigan, who built not only robots but ... Carolina, who went on a quest to find a Pink Lemonade Celsius near her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  to kindred spirits that they hope to live with. (A note that not all ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first-year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  residents to be on a meal plan. Every dining hall serves breakfast and dinner ... the liberty to choose to be on a meal plan or instead rely on other food ... —most students choose to brush up on their culinary skills or enroll in a lower

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... 'm officially a junior, halfway done with college, done with thermodynamics, and not even close to done packing. But, that's what tonight and tomorrow

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... Blue Brain Project, a joint venture between EPFL and IBM to ... Switzerland to show you. Don't expect anything too soon, though - I'll need a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  heaven and earth behind the scenes to forge a meaningful connection between ... local music and perform in a concert! Day 1 Fast forward to about three ... the Amazon rainforest. What a way to start my spring break! Immediately

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of ... reported back to Raphael, and we continued on our way, keeping a wary eye out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But ... ) to be at the borderline between a B and a C. Course policies really ... off an A - nor will you be able to do every single problem on a given

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and I'm so excited that I'm just about ready to kiss the Logan Airport ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a ... the World), where I got to present a piece from my current most favorite

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... to. Of course, not all students come back to MIT for IAP. A few of my ... in has something to do with it as well. But that's just a hypothesis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  -size loft beds, which were a pain to climb onto, especially at night, with the ... , make coffee, drag myself over to my desk, code for a couple of hours ... with friends or just to sit in a park and breathe some fresh air

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... need a PhD, how often will I have to move, are there any jobs available ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... : Breakfast with a friend from high school. So, clearly, there is no excuse to ... Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... actually surprisingly easy and a fun thing to do. My junior year, I took a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  Autobiography), or giving several presentations to a classroom full of your peers ... things go so wrong? A Series of Unfortunate Events Mistakes led to falling ... then implement a full User Interface by semester’s end to tackle that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  about quite a lot. To name a few of these memories: A friend at Random ... never having to use my legal name or tell professors I go by a different ... this blogpost is meant to be a mock-up of my monologue for the MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  to create a program to educate students on the significance of ... of the Leadership Training Institute. It was so exciting to be a part ... LTI logo there, coming up with a potential new addition to the

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008