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• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  ’s marching band uniform. I thought of waking up at 3 am to a “team alive ... somen salad–even though I never ate much of it at home. I embraced my role ... The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of ... ! For the month of July, I continued my UROP with the Media Lab. I UROP at ... HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of ... hard I wished I hadn’t wasted so much time at the beginning of the year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  recipients' art as part of the annual exhibit of Schnitzer Prize winners at the ... graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective ... displayed at a bunch of venues, including the famous Ars Electronica. When it

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  last run at 3:30PM. Got to the bottom of the mountain and realized I ... the beginning of the year, DoingWell at MIT had us all write letters to ourselves that would automatically be sent to our MIT emails at the end of the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  Saturdays and inspiration, check out the massive number of people who were at ... at the University of Chicago called Cascade. I would have never learned ... several of my Saturday mornings after I found an old CD containing Bobby

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  . - Tuesday, February 11 Yesterday, I woke up at 8, poured myself a bowl of ... workout", and 2) If I can get the hang of this, I will look AWESOME at ... I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses. Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my papers. My first few weeks at Cambridge flew by. Participating in meets

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people ... i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... a haircut at this place my brother recommended--the guy there said he

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  Vermonsters at Ben & Jerry's on Newbery Street.  One of my main concerns ... that it's possible to participate in community service at MIT.  One of ... : (Neerja and I didn't enjoy one of the activities that much at first) We

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  enrolled at MIT. So for all of you who are looking to merge your talents in ... will be able to find a home here at MIT. Recently, Professor of Music ... The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  college student, save for ramen.) Speaking of dining halls at MIT, Baker ... pay a set price ($275 this semester) at the start of the term, entitling ... just cooked large amounts of angel hair pasta with ground beef in black

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh ... for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  . Other news: I have at this point exhausted the bloggability of not being ... 's last biology lecture of the semester. Only at MIT does one of the world ... quantities of alcohol for the sake of scientific education. Because only at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  . i’m just really bad at this sort of thing, so maybe read what other ... i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog posts about waiting for decisions and that kind of stuff. personally, i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  theater groups and classes here at MIT. She made this very coat as part of a ... Last week, I promised you guys an update with photos of my Halloween ... plumes make everything cooler. This particular photo was taken by some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane Satrapi mixed explanations of her artistic process with nuggets of advice about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, at the University of ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks at the Davidson Institute (check them out). The Academy itself is not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  10 (more) reasons why MIT is beautiful part tvte?

  

  ’re neck deep in a 2.006 thermal-fluids pset, there’s light at the end of the ... _cheung_) on Feb 10, 2016 at 3:34pm PST   (bonus) hello, class of 2020 ... long day of classes, you turn around and see this: A photo posted by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 8, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application ... portal itself (Naviance, fax, mail, etc.) require at least three business ... business days to process materials at the busy Early Action and Regular