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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  ends Let's celebrate Remember a year in chain email spam Remember the ... is completely snapped off) at 5:30, and there was already a line ... getting a free T-shirt shoved into my arms. I felt like Napoleon, doing his

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  come from a teacher who is currently teaching you. I did not have either ... important is that they can help to build the picture of who you are as a ... impressed, but the writing score is not a big factor in selection at this time

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the ... here. Two divided by four is one half, and that’s a little terrifying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  on my UROP, which involves computing statistics about traffic in a ... applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work ... person that could help out. Perhaps this is just a testament to how many

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  've learned in life this past semester. Breakups I know this is a bit personal ... for the first time in a year and a half is incredibly jarring. I have no ... old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  you know someone who had a clown for a neighbor. You know, if that ever ... miscellaneous shrubbery and nondescript store fronts whizzed by. We were in a new ... very first stop in our weekend vacation. I had been the one to suggest a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  , which is a large room in my dorm, Burton Conner, so all i have to do to be ... bother fixing it since my motherboard is a goner. it took about six ... a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... questioning. C/C++ or Prolog - Lecture based classes with a programming

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the ... currently on our campus who felt the same way before their dream became a ... , and Success (OACES) is to champion the success of students who have
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... last as long as MIT does. Maybe it will last longer. This is a very ... last Monday for Team MR8 in memory of my friend Martin Richard, who was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  ; The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day [annotation note="If you don't know what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a person or group of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r/IAmA

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  and seeing who's who in this crazy zoo. Christmas Party: Tonight my ... a new chalk mural in the main stairway in the lobby. So much talent ... ="107131" /] Gatas is a really run game that we play on our now partially destroyed

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how much of a nerd I am (Ok maybe it is a little about that last one….) This blog is a bit more serious, (get it?….bit?.....and we were talking ... ’d like to pretend that I was a hard working kid who studied a lot and did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  : "MIT is a hard place, made all the harder for the resonant, omnipresent ... , robust, strengthened. As a grad student (and in the immediate afterward), I ... of the latter. Whether you graduate in a few weeks, or in a few years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  -- held in the Rainbow Lounge, which is in the basement of Walker Memorial ... Meditation Monday: Tonight, 10/16 @5:30 pm in 50-005 Meditation ... meditation and an experience of guided visualization, a simple, nonsectarian

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an ... classes in 2003 (3.091, 21A.109, 18.01A, 8.01 and a seminar). I don't know

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  complaining, but a community nevertheless. In our clique-y self-selected tables ... in the dining. One time, there was a mass exodus when Lamawal found a ... his first month in NTIC, he secured a deal with a security guard. Each

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... ’s a lot to relieve. There is something so calming about drowning out all

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  campus in September of 2022, I was a different person in a lot of ways, and the same in many too. I came from the Bay Area in California, a place I ... applications vanished after senior fall in 2022, I was left with a teeming mass

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • June 1, 2026