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• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  've been using since Interphase to make my life a little bit easier. Recitation This is usually your first line of defense when you leave lecture ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  ago. A simple and bold first step: click. I’m not going to lie, I ... To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... think that by the way I was feeling, I had been determined to go here

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... isn't so surprising. When applying to MIT three years ago (it's been 3

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... think of. As our Internet culture continues to mature, words such as ... aware of this problem in my life until our trip to Seoul in my last week

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . The first answer, of course, is to keep on keeping on. Keep doing well ... . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  What's that? You think the celebrations ended with the Toast to Tech ... groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... students are not required to join the campus meal plan (although don't worry

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... wanky blog entries lately, I'd like to write one that's not, because ... just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  continually bringing up food from the kitchen (in the basement) up to the first ... misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to about MIT's supposed lack of fun, but also because I used to think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  second year here, I've got it all figured out. I'll be the first to admit ... It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me enough witty, engaging stories to constitute an entire entry, but in light of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  was the first university in the nation to be named a Heartsafe Community ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... possible, once one has established effective study habits, to maintain decent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  cancelled due to Chicago being buried under 20 stories of golfball-sized hail with frogs inside. Or at least that's what I have chosen to believe. So I'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  Flowers student to attend MIT, thanks to scholarships Student ... Technology in the fall. Eletha Flores' dream always was to attend the ... that's fine because she had a plethora from which to choose, including a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  trip brought me to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  Scuti became the first person in human history to beat tetris. It’s a ... I Love Tetris.  I think it was the first videogame I ever played at the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  managed to place [annotation note="To be completely accurate, I actually had ... rankings to progress to the live game show. Thus I ended up 3rd and won $15 ... . Here in Part 2, I've analyzed the remaining four games, hoping to gain more

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  listed 10 lines for students to fill in. For the first time, Jones says ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... , from rural Saskatchewan to southern Mississippi. Most prominently, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  bathroom. 3. At first I never understood why people prefer to board early ... terminal to another, NRT has the cleanest toilets you can possibly imagine ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  Shrey! The first day of Blueprint is now completed. I have to admit ... the morning after staying up until 1am (skull emoji – selena) to sort ... supporting them to build projects in 9 hours"]BLUEPRINT 2025 [/annotation] IS

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025