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• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  : Picture this headline: Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus ... that I wanted to go MIT even over the other prestigious institutions I'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  , a YouTube series meant to bridge the student-faculty divide by showing ... fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and finally got the opportunity to connect with the team when my neighbor, Tho T

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  course, i take a top bunk, and immediately try to piece together my ... family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  friends, like going to Celtics games, exploring a new part of Beacon Hill ... . Namely:  It’s my very last semester (still trying to wrap my head around this) I have already completed every requirement to graduate (except

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere else!] [This doesn't apply to everyone, but ... attracted to MIT's campus culture, I've found these students often are also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  together and maybe write some new carols. mitBEEF is a club dedicated to ... Game Night Build a Dominion in Puerto Rico to prevent your Descent into ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  's course, and hope to get lucky in the end. Let the games begin. ... Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I ... 've just started to get exposed to interesting topics in bioengineering that

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  wet to the touch. I enjoy smaller get togethers with fun games and ... I like to tell myself that I've escaped my high school demons. That ... 't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... cuts and scratches littering my hands fueled my trek to campus. Today was the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  pre- high school days, skip down to Summer 13 (the numbers correspond to my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas on how to pluralize things like "June" and "July"? I had to stop myself

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  to make us feel better. However, there are some nice things about ... underclassmen! They spent hours and hours and days making us a Tetazoo card game ... reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my ... ; fairly mundane stuff. But mundane is nice. I often feel like I have to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  have other games, etc., etc. It was exhausting to stand for two hours, to ... , I emailed and I messaged people, trying to get our first game ready by ... asking people to play board games. I like our weekly events like fruit bowl

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News ... MIT. Called "MyMIT," the portal serves as a dynamic bridge between the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  the bike while motivating them to push themselves harder. "In one game ... I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  together. There was going to be a fifty-fifty chance we'd be in the same ... that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up, and they said their coronavirus policies didn't allow me to, even if I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  = Fun and Games: Cross-Cultural Perspectives CMS.100 = Introduction to ... about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine ... 've taken to meet the req's! Legend GIR = General Institute Requirements

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  , I turned into a puddle of excitement. A puddle! I tried to plan out ... miserably failed at attending all the events I had hoped to be at. While this is not a guide to optimizing your CPW experience... here are a few

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014