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• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  I look at in vain are complex and interesting: for a few weeks, it ... for the first time and overwhelmed by the feeling of having an entire ... identity I’ve created for myself. I guess it’s because it’s just that: an

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  [/annotation] in my Crocs, pool towel in hand, for my PE class. The locker rooms ... time in the day for all of that, and there’s even less time on Thursday ... realized that I really had to lock in for 8.01.  At the end of the class

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  Hi all, The office is closed for the holiday and there are only a small handful of people answering emails right now.   But for all of you trying to get your Regular Action application in by the January 1

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  introduced in class, resulting in p-set pages that often looked like this ... how this might happen for a moment, and then look at the diagram below ... upper level (for example, the decisions of the first 3 people in level J

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  't regularly wear safety glasses go in for an MRI and have metal fragments ... in, work on their thing, and have mentors/staff around to ask for help ... get their attention before you walk in, since accidentally looking at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  so you can look more menacing. Bring an apple in case you decide to ... appropriately for the holiday. A 15 minute delay in the meeting time allowed for ... I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  ; the temperature in Bangalore was in the neighborhood of 80F and, for the ... ). For a number of reasons (did you know it takes over an hour to go 15 km ... among Hindus for its Brahma temple, one of very few in existence) and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  standing at an accredited college, university, technical institute, or community college may apply for transfer admission. If you are in your first ... have been enrolled in college part-time, calculate your full-time term
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  unconscious for most of the past hours. An hour and a half to Chicago—time to ... for the occasion, since Boston has been in a bit of a warm spell, and my ... in the Great Hall, waiting for my train to take me away to California

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... feels normal or even almost too bland for MIT, my personality in a non ... 've made friends and they're absolutely lovely, but there's still an ache in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  75 students in a basement beneath an aerial dance studio. We got to ... embroidery thread that has sat untouched in my drawer for seven years. (The ... the trapeze, and in an hour she was better than me. I didn't have the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine ... times) after that, and then it was 5 pm and decisions were happening in an ... cry. And then I took a nap and passed out. I woke up in time for my 8

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a ...  need. Check if there's an in-house washer and dryer, if that is important to you ... things you want to make sure you look for before you start seriously

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  . Sometimes for the worse. Take of that what you will. In any case, the rest of ... ="Dormitory Council"] dormcon,[/annotation] one for The Tech, one for an acapella group, and another for an acapella group, MORE[annotation note="to be clear

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... shell. I had developed a real confidence in my self for the first time in ... found a really good job, and an apartment in Boston, and I was ready to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  any one thing. If you happen to be looking for an overview of a million ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... from way back in February, which are back with a vengeance (although

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  them and use them for signing in now) with Mac keyboards (thank goodness ... ." is the core mission of MIT. An example are the OLPCs people signed in ... freshman year. Requirements in each major vary vastly so it'd be best to look

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  wished to get into an ivy league school.  I miss looking through the old ... playing Jazz for the sake of playing Jazz. I miss Blues in Hoss Flat, and ... miss being in high school.] [annotation note="As I hope you understand

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  relevant definition is this: “the use of centralized planning in an attempt ... it’s really just… persuasion. For an excellent cause. Anyways. That ... ’re in the middle of planning an outing to Boston Commons, and you have to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  ="101950" /] the feeling of wearing a hoodie in an air-conditioned building in the ... year, making curry with strangers in an East Campus kitchen, feeling ... summer. It's been an interesting summer; I've really enjoyed being able to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024