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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  buckled and I knocked over a jewelry box. The clatter of pearls and gold ... really beautiful. Anyway, I met CK at the very beginning of my freshman ... involved impromptu photoshoots. That same year I met the 3rd star of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  now. The one unfortunate part of August is packing and moving. Although all of the dorms at MIT remain open for summer residents, my floor was ... you want to paint and he always says yes. Then at the end of the year

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I ... points. Here are some of the things I've learned to be true from my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site ... ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress ... syntax because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Yet, by the end of 6 ... -functioning **by “I’d built” I mean “they wrote most of the code with a few sections

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... . Spontaneity was essentially thrown out of the window. By the end of the work day ... being completely bored out of my mind. By July, even the television I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  day meaning the first three days of web.lab, after which mit announces ... response time feel a lot of anxiety the night before your first lecture ... the students complains that they can’t make any of the regular office

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  source of Random content) and I feel like that was partly the reason I didn't really come to discover the quirky little dorm until the last day of CPW ... finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  the NSA and the tour guide I had was really uptight and that kind of ... they should put on the team, and one of the tests was themed Anatomy & ... senior year of high school. Additionally, the high school I went to had

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  interests." The logical part of me knows that's probably the dumbest thing ... pulled me through some of the roughest times in my life, especially in the ... the version of myself during my senior fall--if you asked me what my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  place. A very special place with so much to offer; but also, the parts of ... fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat ... I'll remember to look at (like on the wall, or in my pocket most of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very ... ’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... : “Guys it's for real nearing Shaq height.” As the latest beneficiary of ... majorly Part Of The Problem. Going to college 5,000 miles away from home

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ’m Sophia, the past head and creator of the Massachusetts Institute of ... thoughts on food. (PS: Even we’re a little confused about the stylization of our club name. But we love the feel of 'mince.' It’s an action that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  seltzer and 2 flavors of kombucha. Wholesome. 8.02 (“Eight-oh-two”): the ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the ... like the rest of us. Gun control: the subject of a blog post I really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The decisions are in the mail They're on their way...

  

  The postman departs with the last of the decision letters, at 1:52pm EST.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... in the online application (like photos of inventions/creations, extra

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput ... that shuttle the tray through a battery of tests (pictures below!) Out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005