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• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  panic about our living situations for the next few months. My perspective ... would be robbed of all the things I had been looking forward to and maybe ... impromptu schedule for the next few days that would enable us to spend as much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  the practical uses are for an igloo in 8 °F weather - the most obvious ... ="121731" /] OH AND GUESS WHAT! Our igloo was even posted on the official MIT ... I may cry the day it melts 😔. Hoping for another storm next year so

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  undergraduate working towards a BFA. Looking back, that’s a nice metaphor for what ... , Jenny. And true. I think the greatest challenge for current MIT students ... managing to get things done and maintain the high standards you all have for

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  things you can find just by looking around on the site -- for example ... Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  imagine, especially considering that our official motto is Latin for "Mind ... was the setup for a lab where we analyzed the gas velocity profile of ... of toys per lab bench. This is the setup for an experiment where we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... , which was for Admissions Counselor for Web Communications, to work on the ... running the job search, asked all of the applicants for the role to make a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  for the last month or so, and every once and a while a [four days from ... ’re just on autopilot. And then the site loads! And for the first time, I don ... this way >:)"]THEN.[/annotation] One of my roommates looked out the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  with the Greek Griller - free bbq for everyone, and you can go around and ... find out more about frats, girls go for fun. Oh, and the food. Steak and ... the Stata Center, so it's pretty convenient for all those dorm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  [Guest Post] How to get paid to be funny by Abby S. '26

  

  room looked like a duck farm for weeks. Finally, on the day of the march ... kazoos, funded by the De Florez Fund for Humor. The mission of De Florez Fund for Humor is to "impress students with the importance of humor in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 31, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  sophomore year I missed the opportunity to sign up for Intel. Later, I went to ... , your context was that the research class wasn't a possibility for you. So ... , "Before I get into questions, I must thank MIT for having MyMIT! I love the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  a line of security blocking off the backroom, and we officially ... manhandling at the door. They even gave us free French fries to apologize for ... in the restaurant looked up and noticed that it was not some

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  old (I’m not): the people running REX events are the people REX was for ... FOR THE GLORY OF THE MOTHERSPONGE! (to the water war that is, trojan ... . 11am - 6pm The Paint War @ Next House Think your friend would look

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  of the project and our first meeting was scheduled for 3 pm EST the ... was probably the official start of this whole project. [carousel image1 ... ="from this point on, our meetings were weekly for the next four months

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  new experience to sit on the subway for so long. We ate lunch together ... excited to try new things. For the first four semesters of MIT, this has led ... , and I’m really looking forward to the trip. [caption id

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  ’t help but take another look around the place I have called home for the ... thinking about this actually for the last few years, perhaps in an effort to ... make the bare white floor of our room more home-y and that is great for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  opened up the floodgates of my hatred for those stupid HASS requirements ... be required for my major." Mom: "So take 24.900, it fulfills all the ... elected officials, think tanks, interest groups, the media, and the public

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  While I have studied in the US for two years before coming to MIT, I was ... 'ethnocentricity', which then became a running joke between the students."]for living ... . This year, ESG celebrated its 50th anniversary and I got to act (for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by ... students are "highly encouraged" to show up at 8:30 AM -- the test officially ... allowed to have notecards for 18.01. We were supposed to memorize all the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  getting lost looking for events? Instead, get lost in this year’s Next Big ... been building the NEXT BIG THING for the past few weeks (and probably ... House converts the TFL (which we recently found out stands for Tastefully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  ://listart.mit.edu/public_art for virtual tours and more information on the individual pieces ... first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... commission art for the space. One of the most recent of these pieces is

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011