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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  the major is a lot less restrictive than the box I put myself in with 6 ... resonated with me and something I could see myself doing that is at least a ... skills. Then I find out that a math major is proofs and I immediately lost

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  wish I could tell you myself how wonderful it was but unfortunately I was ... Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit about the event and this is what he told me: "The Next House Thanksgiving

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... -10 different vegetables (which is admittedly already a lot), but you can double ... , so I usually only do this if I get a to-go box (e.g., during late

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... think definitely helps is just talking about it more. When a previous

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT ... favorite takeaway has been learning how to touch (or not touch) this, a la MC ... challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... . Quadrant two is “Wow so much fun but help I can’t breathe out of my nose ... their ratio is about the same. A lot of people don’t even have health on

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  really hasn't ramped up too too much yet which is my fault) Admissions ... , but I'm feeling things a bit too much all at once and I wish I could ... A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  at a fencing practice last year: “This is MUCH less sexual if you ... tell   us about how something in your life is like that scene. There’s a ... 'm writing as I complain about how bad this movie is :P[/caption] Tell us a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  allow you to preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how ... Word count: Yes, the word count is enforced. Perhaps a little overly ... . Also, if you put too much text into the box, the bottom will be cut off

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  this school, and particularly for how much the people are what make them ... even was, let alone how I could be useful. All we knew is that we would ... . Essentially, the event is 100 high school students teaming up for a three day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  months, but you know how the calls have been going. And dad, well, is still ... have been mistaken for a safe box with a screen. From within it, The Real ... good, right? You’re a med student and pretty much a walking Ivy League

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... home with a big box of LEGOs. $1500 worth of LEGOs to be precise. I don

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  about how he is exploring filmmaking because his finance internship made ... is that a big part of adulthood is figuring it out as you go. you ... parallel universe is living out each of a hundred different lives, and each

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  MIT, including how messed up dining is, how we lost a bunch of sports ... got the job! As a college student, employment is awesome, it lets us eat ... Tuesday. Is this a blog entry about my trip there? Of course! On Friday I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Instrument Design). Still, I think it's amazing how much physical equipment I ... and multimeter. A little box of miscellaneous electronics for 21M.370 ... Yesterday, we were promised a snow day at MIT. Although the snow

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters ... .  That day is unfortunately a long way off, but so far I’ve had at least ... way to tour a startup, and the lunch boxes scribbled with calculations

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  information" or "box of packing peanuts need good home." I know a lot of people ... , I still got a nice loaf. I'm not sure what the point of this entry is ... going to say about decisions. MIT is a just place - a set of buildings

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  because you enjoy sharing a human connection, that you want to give as much ... things I like so much about MIT is that so many incredibly different people are close friends. Kevin is a Filipino-American guy from Alaska, Andreea

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  . One thing I really like about MIT is that there is a HASS (humanities ...  about what it is like to not be well at the end of a semester, and it is not fun ... good enough (so I got a cat instead) and if my GPA is not high enough

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  a picture of all the toys and candy and stickers everyone is giving ... really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I ... time you make a flight). SpaceX is quite seriously working on getting a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013