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• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s ... any individual story that affects me at this point. Rather, it’s the system. It’s the fact that I can read an application from a wealthy Black

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  gotten if I had to learn about natural logs and Euler’s constant and all ... back to the early 1600s, way before Newton’s time. The birth of calculus ... presence of a superior being, so they accepted Newton’s mathematical

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  morning, but it’s approach towards business solutions through technology was ... mom’s cooking Boat Folks - I’m on the varsity sailing team at MIT, and ... something… Here’s what an average day at work looks like for me: 8:30 AM- I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  life. Are you hiding something from us?” “I hear it’s really dirty…but I ... in public, or playing with cats. It’s a very special place and the ... residents. These reasons are, I imagine, pretty much the same as anyone else’s

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Epsilon) is one of MIT’s fraternities and has been our partner for the Date ... me about any details that seem awkward – it’s an awesome event, I promise!) The businesses that donated prizes to this year’s date auction

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . Although I am determined not to write much on the subject of MIT’s difficulty ... . Collaboration is encouraged, and my hike made me internalize that even if it’s ... ) Hike your own hike, and enjoy it That’s what Hot Rock (the shuttle

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  . The Student Center MIT’s cylindrical chapel   The “Little Dome ... , more Chinese food) at Mary Chung’s. The girl on the far left is Ming. She’s a guest-blogger, too! We had an argument about the organization of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter ... without lanes, fill it to capacity with rickshaws (India’s take on ... some idea of what it’s like traveling India’s roads. I’

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... .  Through a no-questions-asked s^3 meeting, one is provided a number of swipes ... entering. It’s so easy to get lost and go in circles and be picking up and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  Boys I've Loved Before: P.S. I Love You and I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE if people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills you’ll use. The MIT Career Development Center collects statistics on the number of students who got their job through networking, on-campus recruiting,…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  During first semester I published a nice little entry about my bookshelf in my personal blog. It’s now 2008 and my bookshelf has undergone several renovations. What does the bookshelf…

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  consistent with gravitational wave theory. In the 1980s, for example, a Nobel

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS.100 (Intro to Comparative Media Studies). The professor handed out teacher evaluation forms and left the classroom.…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   “Help! I’m from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter?”   I’m glad you asked!…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  and one thing only: it’s lax season!! The women’s and men’s lacrosse games are staples of an MIT student-athlete’s spring. Those games are a ... . Outside of lacrosse, I am an undergraduate researcher at MIT’s Computer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  with it! The manga’s been getting good and I eagerly await Jojo day each ... playing with synthesizers at the Voxel Lab. It’s cute that old Mimi and I ... be likable in her posts. She’s not quite as funny as I am. I’ve still

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  energetic frosh labour, there’s also the various ice breakers so that everyone ... what it means for a day to feel like it’s NINETY DEGREES (ah yes ... poisonberry?” And that’s when I knew I fucked up. Apparently, Boysenberry is not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  was. Conversations with current students led me to believe that MIT’s ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT’s

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... from the fire escape. We listen to a drag queen read children’s books in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022