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• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  for a long, long, time. Thankfully, the real weekend (the one where I ... ones, where my iPhone really can't quite hack it. The nature up in the ... here, because I couldn't choose between them ><  Feel free to skim

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... also heard the term 'protofrosh' used to describe students who are ... communities and see where they would best fit in on campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  - where people are reconciling the pragmatic need to be employed with the ... 's like Whoa, little creature, what are you. Anyways, besides just missing ... get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  few it is exactly the right course of action. Most of these students are coming from areas where there are not enough resources, and they have just ... at age 16 or 15. Younger students are not a huge population at most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  , and virtually all non-frosh rooms, are singles, making this a non-issue. However, there are a few freshman doubles on every hall. In these, the beds are made to fit together, not built as a single entity. So you can

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  ="84382" /] I have no concept of exactly where we are along the route; I know we ... seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... other, but the MBTA trains are just...less pretty."]the more subway

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  lot near the end. it just, made sense. it was winter. we were sleeping ... , especially if you are not careful. i was not.  spread sparsely among the logistics are friend meetups and family gatherings—the goodbyes, but not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  …..” and you don’t really know where they are going with this until they ... !). Recently, this video made by the MIT media lab (which includes Chris Peterson ... because you are not just given knowledge–you have to earn it. I’m going to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... summer schedule and people are going on vacations, which means the trains are slightly less crowded as I make my trek to campus (but still packed

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those pictures. On the day where we think about the Doctor, me and some friends ... out your pink picture grabber to grab pictures. Here are some of those

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  morning and night, especially when there are dorms on MIT campus that are ... Center, where my first class of the day is. Inside the Stata Center Down the steps to my classroom Made it to my first class of the day, 8

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  dance that happens between students and colleges where the power dynamic ... those whom we are lucky enough to receive their applications, we read them ... couple pints of ice cream, and all will be okay. But then there are others

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  . We're pretty good at the pirate sports: rowing and fencing are Division I sports; we are the birthplace of intercollegiate sailing; and we ... . Where do you think George got the money to buy the team? Well, Henry used

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  a giant postal tube, but it's still an exciting thing. ARE you excited ... other people where I'd applied early, or that I'd applied early at all ... 't have online decisions.) Anyway, I made some comment like "I wish they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , here are some examples of cool projects: CYCLESCORE: " We connected a ... the second game, you are a spaceship that flies around and shoots down ... "Difficulty Management System" (DMS)" iQUARIUM "A hands-on, student-made

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British accent. The names are fascinating too. Under any other circumstance, I ... are names of real places. I've been here for two days and I'm really

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  the taste of rejection. You’ve made yourself sick to the stomach out of ... essays are not unique enough. You’ve put in years of hard work to get into ... -way through with senior year. You’re at the point where application deadlines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  : ...as we made more money we were able to have more components of the floor professionally manufactured, up to the point where now we only sell assembled ... 't know what that means but I do know that their first year they made a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  on. Irina O. ‘15 and Luisa B. ‘16 made brownies and meringues, which is ... her 2-room (“Oh, this is Friday”). The bean sprouts are Jessica’s; the ... someday. Destiny is also where I found Cory my sophomore year, after Snake

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  adventure into the field where scientists test the Mars rovers.  After a tour ... ? There are chains on the one I took a few weeks ago, and the one from 2006 ... it was not on our campus, and it made us really happy that we have

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013