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• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  My brother's not very impressed with my fashion sense. In his words, "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It ... until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science Essay class. I ... still in the tunnel for five minutes. So, when it finally pulled into ... class, while sitting on a chair in the kitchen; I cried for a few minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  album"]musicals,[/annotation] hiked in national parks, stopped for free wi ... 've escaped that in-betweenness of young adulthood and swapped it for a ... , but different" initially made sense, as I settled into an apartment in a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  an Asian-American narrative often marginalized in the media; these ... an impact. In retrospect, this essay could've focused more on why I ... irrevocably changed in many ways (my meme game has improved exponentially), I am

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five ... from you soon! See you in 9 days! CPW is a blast -- tips for conquering ... piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor ... neurons for permitting me to learn about... 8.286: The Early Universe Look ... expanded in what is known as “an outrageously, mind-bogglingly fast rate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  kind of thing that MIT would look for in an applicant [I was surely ... looked, I saw students searching for cards to complete their set, and it ... what matters for this story is the creator, Cassie L. Cassie works in the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  of a breakthrough with a vaccine for the virus in the offing, it feels ... [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  in the hallway: Also a complicated looking, sweet machine: And then ... school and was in a banana costume for his campaign for class vice ... varying degrees of involvement in extracurricular activities. There was an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  !), and an interview I got package in the mail. I opened it up and found a ... 'll live in the dorms, and commute to Rhode Island (about an hour) every ... a typical day in Toy Lab looks like. Step 1: Melt Green Gummy Bears

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  - we're not looking for folks to have cured all infectious disease in the ... as how we look at it in reading and selection, there is absolutely no ... -choice - so we can't assume an added enthusiasm for MIT based on the decision to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  in McCormick Hall for about six months. At that point I decided I ... interested in entrepreneurship and music, and I was working in an early stage ... Schreck Shits calendar in the Mars One project. What advice do you have for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  literally solved this in 2 seconds after looking at it for about 5 seconds ... towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... . Fun fact: 5/12th of the finalists live on a single floor in my dorm, an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  Earlier today, I got an email from Kenny Friedman '17, who took my ... 's an even older silent movie called Technology (1934) that was sent by ... armament, for civil rights — was arguably the single most politically active

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  readings for this class. ES.100 - An Introduction to Maker Skills ... , we find that we're looking forward to what the future now holds for us ... something to look forward to in the morning (I work out right in the morning

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  a 6.0001 exam Monday night, an 8-page essay for STS.010 (Neuroscience ... the form of an overnight shift for the MIT ambulance from 11pm to 8am ... slippery slope and damaged windshields in an effort to describe my situation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns and everything it took to get there

  

  to pass in 1993, the hackers did make sure to run Tetris for April 24th ... before in 2012, and while the lights were left up for future hacks, they ... faced. For example, the original LED modules had an open face, and the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 3, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... . (INVESTIGATOR PIERCE, a portly, middle-aged man with a unibrow for absolutely no ... , DETECTIVE POLK, is speaking indeterminately into a taupe-colored telephone. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... :     Chad ’13, in the green shirt, stopped by the kitchen for ... working on his term project for 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). In

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011