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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  , Our Lady of the Hamptons. I then made the big leap to the public high ... already made up my mind was too nerdy, too narrow, and too, well, male to be ... levels. Coming from a conservative, 90+% white town where diversity meant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  The cherry blossoms are out and the students are slipping onto Kresge ... and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... and visiting this dorm, Burton Conner, for a free Thai food event. I

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  ’ll start knowing where things are. There are only so many intersections in MIT for you to explore. You’ll eventually know where each path will go ... ’ll be right enough that you’ll never be truly surprised where a hallway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... that end, I did a lil email poll. Here are some (minorly condensed ... where I was applying, and then I didn't get in, everyone would make fun of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There ... actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT student, because I’m not really sure where it started and where it ends. Did

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  in which time had absolute meaning and humans had free will over ... : Weekends at MIT are like the soft, cushiony slices of whole-grain bread ... your untrimmed course notes, which are thick and richly marbled with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  other students are. Eventually, we are joined by another two students, to ... , and, eventually, all five of us are talking to each other, wondering where the professor is. After all, we haven't gotten any emails from them

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  where you are. Who enforces the November Rule? In reality, no one. It isn ... you know you’re not alone. Others have been where you are. I've been where you are. This doesn’t mean that the pure existence of the Rule

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , we are taking 6.910 Independent Study in EECS!  We really wanted to ... it was a PROCESS. And looking back, we probably made some mistakes, which made the process more complicated/drawn out than it had to be. So

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  : OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about ... to adequately describe the eclectic mix of videos that are added by the MIT community each day. My personal favorites are the Doc Edgerton high

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  high school students who are interested in MIT: The MIT TechFair THINK ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity ... guys! If you have any questions feel free to email the organizers. Let

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  . Other than that, there are no words. Only pictures. Which are worth a ... , free-for-all balloon-popping extravaganza. They popped all the balloons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might ... : 1)   Find a project that you are really passionate about and think ... .   Here are 50 Shades of Break. This is a collection of the favorite

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  Minnville, where I've lived almost my whole life, and spent a frenzied week saying ... plants at home. Only a few of them are growing here and the rest are new. I ... have some guesses. Shockingly, the free candy everywhere hasn't proven to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  rapped was different, the beats he made were different, and the characters ... Mouse and you realize this dude created an entire connected universe where he ... you’ll find it. So many people are so focused on what they think others

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  what you've done to get to where you are. Answer the question, and it ... can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd ... all of your work as an MIT student. I know plenty that are never zombies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  are that they are confined, defined problems with a predetermined ... are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of ... realistic that situation is and chances are you’ll be greeted with a mixture

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  . Buildings on main campus are numbered in a more or less logical system. Generally speaking, numbers are odd on the west side of building 10 and even on the east side of building 10. Numbers are small near the river and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain ... nineteen behavior mice, as I am done testing them and they are to be ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  in.  A woman asked me the typical questions — where are you from, how ... children now are spread all over -- Ireland, England, Australia. He bikes a ... small town where I had an hour layover. I started walking to a café but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023