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• Blog / MIT Life

  From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity

  

  supremacists, klansmen, and outright Nazis have become comfortable enough to ... gathered yesterday afternoon to share some better ideas. 5:30 pm, Cambridge ... Thornhill of First Holiness Church and the Cambridge YWCA    

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... even when the weather gets atrocious, the warmth of the infinite is only a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  .013 – Introductory Biology (a GIR class) I’m ALWAYS excited to take biology, but that ... the course. I think this has something to do with the science education ... seems to always bounce back. But every time I have to take biology again

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  sophomore—to her first class, 6.00. Course 6 isn't really my cup of tea ... at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  blogger, coder, gamer, and web designer (rather, I try to be). I came from distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of ... bloggers (this one needs to be explained later), and learned quite a bit

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  ) converge on a key research problem to focus on and make progress on it (focus ... confident to face the world, knowing my strengths and weaknesses a bit better ... of thing much more now! I tried to do research really hard. I grinded

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action ... fill out the entire MIT first-year application.
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  returning to Boston in waves on Sunday. I was in the first wave, and per the ... Being the first three-day weekend of the academic calendar, Columbus ... sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... . Most people who come to MIT are happy, well-adjusted people, and leave MIT as happy, well-adjusted people. That's not to say that MIT is never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  desperately to get my kids to remember who I am, I logged in to publish an "I'm excited for everyone to get their mail this week!" post. In my in-box was an email from Marilee, asking me to post her first-ever blog entry. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT ... may designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis after your first term, and at any time during your course of study.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to ... ) and together we ran across the street, to pick up another junior named Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  is, is it better to email my EC about my interview report first, or ... the first (non-optional) essay, so is it going to be better for my ... Before I go off on vacation today, I wanted to answer as many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  counting to infinite, programs being folded into paper planes and thrown at ... English language... and I'm so dedicated to you, gentle reader, that I would indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  coming if it thinks giving me four days off will be sufficient bribe to ... to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled with infinite wisdom, I realize that it’s nearly five p.m. I mumble an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  one entrance to the Infinite Corridor, and that's through the admissions ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  and Glory to whoever sends me the complete list first.) ... It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  , and i also went to the first-ever social action fair, which is a fair ... have been UROPing, starting to work on my thesis, and trying to spend as ... interested in and excited about. it is really, really, really nice to wake up

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017