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• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... all the answers. Just go for it.  1) To be a good software engineer, you ... and software. For example, from February to March, the [annotation note

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  things where MIT tries to compensate for beating the crap out of everyone ... With Earth And Life that is the Boston traffic. This at least allows for ... , the opera is over, and the curtain falls. We get to clap hard for all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  i'll omit for now."]trusty Spotify playlist.[/annotation] The walks ... blends with the sounds of the city around me, and I can look around and say ... windy, and I had brought the wrong jacket for the circumstances. The first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , sometimes mundane, and sometimes leave you with the feeling you have looked ... "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  , this weekend is the one I've been looking forward to all year. Besides ... have a really cool website where you can see the program for the whole ... , though this isn't the first time this year - we've had nice days on and off

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  graffiti. The incongruity between what the city currently looks like and what ... concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out yesterday's entry for, well, more pictures. I, I can remember standing by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  . Luckily, MIT was the perfect place for that. Not only is there a class about ... from that book because the end product looks so cool. Cardinal Designer ... for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  my best friends, one of whom will be in Italy/Denmark/Taiwan for the ... able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday ... 's weird to think that next year, my friends will be scattered around the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  around the world to raise awareness and money for campaigns and charities ... surprised to see the turnout: the 318-person auditiorium was full! Look at ... people for photos.After discussing the (very entertaining and hilarious and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... ahead--I give you permission to look into the personal life of this guy ... statistics from the Tech today, let me paraphrase it in one Marilee Jones quote

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... to do well on the next two exams, final, and psets for us to pass the ... reasoning for wanting to take the third exam, despite knowing that it would be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome ... he'd write up a version of it as a guest post for the blogs. And he did ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] hanging out with my friends for the first time freshman year

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... Sloan faculty heard the desires of the MIT community for a recognized ... 'm still sticking with the program in Applied International Studies. I look

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  better looking. But the clearest message is that you should be richer ... more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most ... are many other ambitions - for instance, to be the best possible

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted Open thread for denied students.

  

  Admitting such a small percentage of the applicant pool means that we unfortunately have to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted A forum for students who were not admitted.

  

  Admitting such a small percentage of the applicant pool means that we unfortunately have to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Learn from my Mistake Aesop's Fables forgot one.

  

  Rule #1: Write legibly. Background: I wrote on a pad of paper that I scheduled my GREs for October 27, or that's what I read. Turns out my 27 actually was a 21. That was my rockstar move for the day. See you Saturday!

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Love Math Snakes on a plane!

  

  Yes, I will be watching this at 10 pm Thursday night. This might be the end of Samuel Jackson's career, and I might as well be there for it. And stay tuned for an entry about my 21st birthday on Friday.

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field