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• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  to do become as long as the infinite corridor, but unlike during CPW ... balloons all along the infinite corridor as a way to express solidarity with ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  People walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the Infinite There’s always that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  triplets of numbers where the first two numbers add to the third L = {w ... are problems where you might need to keep trying for an infinite amount ... infinitely closer to something) and other nice properties of functions., which

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  for the oven to get ready was a bit boring. I commented on her cool key ... supplies to make Blood Moon Earrings. We tried melting wax first, but the red ... the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  without knowing the first thing about hydrology--at first. I began to ... I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... there are infinite ways to demonstrate them. Obviously, there's not some ... and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee ... I saw this installation in the Infinite Corridor. (You can see me ... Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... grew, so did our footprint on the Infinite. We eventually went on to ... printed booklet sent to interested students via first class postal mail. The

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  different routes (left and right out of the Infinite) to spice it up. Dark ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking home after class: (2) Because even the Infinite (Corridor) has an ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  infinitely difficult to phrase and connect everything. Other times, I just don ... alive creatures out there. It is hard to believe that the key difference ... the first couple of years of college, that just means I won’t be able to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments, classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when ... , the circular path of the sun crosses the axis of the Infinite Corridor
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take away my website!) Here at MIT, the Infinite Corridor has been ringing ... moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  . I entered the first lecture not really knowing what to expect, but I ... basic or complex it had to be. At first, I was going to do the entire ... a tweet to my personal Twitter account. I first imported the Button

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  health issues. The key, as I have observed, is to genuinely care for each ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  first conversation, since it is closer to a complete end. This is not to ... from Act I is sufficient to tell us what needs to be done first ... to live—which is ultimately why i reject this first answer

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In ... needed to be, and all of the words written on the walls of the Infinite ... out to walk through every level of the Infinite and take pictures of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  building 3, on the first floor, room 08. Main campus is considered to be the ... students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you ... the Infinite runs from building 7 through buildings 3, 10, and 4 to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006