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• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  canons for 1812 are always a big hit. Here are some photos I took from the ... River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below: Okay, so I'm not ... , I've watched the fireworks from many locations on and around campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  committing to MIT or any college for the matter. I had a strong desire to ... signed up for Sport Taekwondo. I am not sure where/when I signed up, mainly ... , I had no concept of what a solar plexus was or where that was supposed

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  and I drove to pick up a friend from UCLA who was just finishing school ... delicious lunch where I had a burrito mojado (basically just a burrito that ... Arrangement Count: 0. I will be writing a Sonic arrangement for Video Game

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  for a year. They feared I would never go to university (I did) nor return home (I did, at least for a time before itchy feet got me moving ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that ... 's got a blog of her own, The Fullerene Incident, where she documents her ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  Microeconomics. As a math-y (math-ish?) person, it was my surprise when I ... . This interview has been edited and condensed from a ~25-minute recording ... ?” Economics is great. And I feel like what hasn't changed about MIT is there's a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  , I represented each of the 341 players as a point and show where they ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... above me won 1st place for an individual game, he was removed from the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  child, but at some point I could tape something to my wall or ask for a ... —figure drawings from when I used to attend a nude portraiture club, former final ... these things up to make way for a summer subletter, and I spent a week

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3 different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  by friends and I can share my own great playlists. If you're a student ... inside individual items. I have a folder for each class and then folders ... which I do a lot for my blog. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  meeting later, and I was offered an internship for January. If you can ... least for me). I’ll be spending my IAP playing ice hockey for the MIT ... ’s backyard). I'd like to share how I found myself working for this 1.5 year old

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  degree (for example: I took Systems Biology, where a large focus of the ... concepts that you can learn and explore. I also play a lot of video games (or ... learned a ton from the friends I made. Carl: The MIT math department is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  ?) How would MIT like my transcripts from Germany (can I just send a copy ... It's time for another Questions Omnibus, where I answer the questions ... , "hy i'm a student from Romania and i would like to find some information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where ... at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  is (seemingly) taking more. I came across a previous blogger's post ... working two UROPs! Am I not doing enough? Maybe I should add a cla—' Stop ... productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout ... in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... is really cool for me, maybe I'll play a minutely important role in the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  this is a refrain I’ve heard many times from many people at many ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a ... easily, who says I can't? I have always been a person who has felt very

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... with a passion, and I speak Spanish at home. Though I can’t say I truly ... MIT, feel free to email me. But I probably won’t respond for a week or

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  . Here I am, preparing to do an info session for the people on the beach ... it hasn't been almost a month since my last post, I've created some ... near future - it'll take me a few days to remember what it is that I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  about - I heard from a friend, so I don't know have too much personal ... weeks I will have spent a few trillion hours taking three midterms (two of ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008