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• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... if Bostonians are less accustomed to snow, or perhaps it really does

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  from these many, many excellent applicants to bring together a class. We ... ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  sleep last night as I scrambled to put together some last minute stuff for ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we ... sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know well, to see who might be interested. I found five who would be around

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... innocent and clueless froshies bond together over an interesting but random

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to ... steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory. I sent out a few e-mails to gauge interests, then replied "yes." At a ... , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  players in the game, because i still struggle to win ascension 20 more than ... have been passed down from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the posters. it's also right next to the lounge, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  , I'm using my powerful work computer to play games. That's what IAP is ... ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... bit different. There's no snow to be seen, and temps are relatively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  as similar to the "American obsession with the final games of the World ... (D-NY) suggested using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as a legal requirement for the government to continue paying its financial

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... technology to transmit knowledge across the world. While at the monastery, he

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... blogs! I thought to ask him to say hello, so I’ll let him take it away

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  established a tradition of going to the dining hall together each week, where we ... decided to take 8.022 together in ESG — the same five people, in the same ... and prod members working together to put up the amazing Cabaret

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  my friend to live together on the farm. On July 6, MIT released ... able to work together without any of the usual transportation or ... I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  ="53540" /]   A cure to my freemium gaming obsession. I played a lot of Tiny ... to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... ElAtEd To ThE cOvId-19 CrIsIs, read: there"]here[/annotation] at MIT has come

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that ... to wrap your collective heads around: 1) MIT students really like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  fact that the girls live, study, play and eat together helps them to ... been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the day by singing to me, "Good morning to you, good morning to you." I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  To set the mood: You and me - shallou   Looking back 2018 was an incredible, incredible year. I learned to be comfortable with being ... firsts. My goal, though cliché, was to stay in the present, appreciate each

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  where we had to lay out a detailed game plan for our final project. I had ... turning out to be really hectic. I’ve felt pretty overwhelmed lately. I’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018