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• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  , including the Baker House and Senior House dormitories. But where are the best (legal) spots, you might ask? In my opinion, they are: 5. MIT dormitory ... River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below: Okay, so I'm not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to MIT 3 years ago, I made a choice. And then I kept making choices ... going, and someday you wake up and look around and hopefully know where you are. Maybe soaked and shriveled or plunged in dirt or laying your

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  .) Unless you are a total academic rockstar and/or you do not need sleep, you ... cheered before coming to MIT, and the quarter to half who have cheered are ... "tryouts" per se -- we have a weekend where we hold a clinic and teach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . Mike D - Feel free to call and ask for me. (When they ask where you ... these blogs are just a glorified PR trick. I'm not going to waste any time ... . Okay, here are a bunch of responses to my blog comments... No

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  seats and protection from the elements, are where it's at. 5)Bathrooms ... resist using them because they think they are a superfluous waste of ... sink, where more water ends up on your clothes and the counter than on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  that are to come. I'm here to tell you that as long as you don't trip ... , are going to be just fine. And even if you do trip and dislocate your knee cap, well, chances are you'll still be fine: "It’s been about two

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  aspects that are not just the free ice cream and Korean BBQ, and truly ask ... , so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the ... the schedule that made me so overwhelmed I had to take a moment to catch

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  made everyone around me feel like maybe maybe mayyyyyybe they finally ... times on 28 different shows by 24 different people. They are students, staff members, alumni, and members of the Boston community. They are

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are ... asphalt resulting from the free fall of an upright piano. Determined to be ... has been 7 years since the "experiment," this one made the local news

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not-technical classes are still a lot of work I am good, I am okay But I am very tired ... and I find myself more exhausted than ever. All of my weeknights are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  are indecisive as heck. It was around this point in time where I found ... take allows you to fulfill your greatest interests and desires, free of ... .5 semesters of MIT is daunting. There are too many things to do and just not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  ="I still like a cold, dry, plain sandwich. There are no Publixes where I can ... song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  , where more than 100 technically creative folks from all over the country will showcase things they've made. A tremendous number of individuals ... Makerspaces 3D Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, and will.i.am, who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  move in. Messes are often made between the times janitors come to clean ... search. As you may know, virtually all MIT freshmen are required to live ... , and there are no "freshmen-only" dorms. Plus, housing in Boston and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Kesem MIT is a one-week, free summer camp that takes place towards the end ... whom are MIT students) come together for a week of pure camp fun – filled ... entirely by a coordinator board made up of ~15 MIT students; this board

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  [annotation note="For our first assignment, I made a synthesizer patch that ... [/annotation]! So here are a few silly instruments I’ve designed throughout the ... ! Tetrahedron is an instrument made of four triangles glued together: [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  made a difference in our process – who you are, your approach to life and ... and exploring MIT, or who are concerned about changes to their academics and extracurriculars that are beyond their control. My elder daughter is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  went ahead and made them do it anyway. Go humans! But you know what ... because they are so weird and interesting. Why do they stick together? Why ... these doors to control where the cats go in the house. Like this little

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  of this retreat, we are all very excited!!!) Liveblogging Also about a ... Uber over to North Station where we had planned to meet Waly and Gloria ... North Station, where the MBTA commuter rail leaves from. Which is about a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  and all that certainly helped. There are just a few things I learned ... many sweatshirts you have on, they are no match for the terrible wind ... the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009