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• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  from home, where all of a sudden you are faced with a whole new set of ... …you’ll find a group of people where you’ll feel like you belong. If you can ... ’s awkward to get a call during dinner from someone you don’t know. But, we

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  Competition, which was my only IAP course, aside from a Broomball class I ... observations for 21W.789 due next week, and I can already feel the pressure ... sunshine streaming through the frosted window - I was greeted with a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  the park where Bexley once stood; I had spent a blissful, sunny day ... this project had me SHOOK. I got Minecraft a week ago and had never ... least. Being able to feel immersed in the campus I know and love from my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can. I hope you ... , creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind. We can’t wait to ... questions for waitlisted students can be found here, with more information

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can. I hope you ... wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind. We can ... questions for waitlisted students can be found here, with more information

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  from MIT, so I just went to Flour for brunch. Flour is a cafe that, for ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... compensate for my sad brunch, some friends and I went to Punto Rojo – a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  different from high school - I don't get jealous. (okay, maybe I get a little ... [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  "]Mentor[/annotation] for my floor this year. I also happen to be a little obsessed with ... was a little unfortunate, but I can't really complain when I was ... note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  my corny little flashlight: Now I can use a milling machine and a ... = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of the FSAE car. So far for FSAE I've made minor contributions to the frame

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a ... attend as a prefrosh. But this is really fun as an MIT student, too~ I ... afterward. Then, I’m going to Chocolate City for Ill Vibes, an open mic sort

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I ... to realize that I'm the furthest thing from a fighter... and I started ... Daiso Japan in Berkeley sells these for 1.50. I imagine they work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  , "I would never do a program like that. I would hate to leave MIT for a ... feeling for what Cambridge, where everything is organized on a year ... matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  is a tradition in Venezuela, where Dudamel is from. According to the ... with her. Scrolling through the original message, I saw a comment that "Dudamel is cool." So, even though I had no idea whether Dudamel was a music

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my ... switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I ... I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  all around!!) and I made a bunch of s’mores for people. Overall, the ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... was so much fun! I did take one pretty bad fall on my chin that left a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  where I learned that term from. Cooking is all about nourishment… more on ... , food Instagram @thefrenchdormitory, where I can at least pretend that my ... best. A difficult claim for me to make, I know, especially considering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  [annotation note='The past two years I had been a counselor for the Course 6 ... more PE class, finding a full-time job."]can't run away from ... laser cut for a 6.810 pset.[/caption] I'm now 21 but still haven't gone

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  the understanding of dance I've developed from being on a team for a ... I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... of myself for my Instagram. I would learn a few dances a week since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT ... sought after by top colleges -- a remarkable achievement for any teen, and ... him that was a prerequisite for going to elementary school. At 3, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009