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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i'll be impressed if you can catch a single thread of coherence running ... morning with a sore throat if you don't waking up at 7:15 is too early

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant ... viral social media trend aimed at raising awareness of amyotrophic lateral

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At ... shower at least twice a month. ...but like most stereotypes, it also contains a grain of truth. It's a good thing that we've got something called

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  + event at Head of the Charles. I was very happy, and so were my teammates ... happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven ... personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  yet, at a 65% grade average in the class, I was at serious risk of ... at the last two months of material. Welp. Many times in high school ... legitimately scared by how close the deadline was (usually a matter of hours), at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  radio debut (there will be more of me on air next year at MIT, just a ... This past weekend was the legendary Campus Preview Weekend at MIT and ... photo of me outside of 77 Mass Ave. (So this is where my application

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  So, it's the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk around campus mid-afternoon today. I went by some of my favorite spots, the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should ... sufficiently show who you are. I hope this is helpful and answers lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  was chosen by all the players). I mentioned at the start of this post ... two types of players I couldn't understand at all: those who donated all ... of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  greeted us at the front of the lecture hall: Professor Buchwald dressed ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  fort I spent a fair amount of the rest of REX at, reopened. I filled out ... dorm you'd prefer living in at the end of REX. Also commonly used as a ... ’ve done at MIT so far (in terms of nonacademic work of course). I’ve learned

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... Robert and Grace and was amazed at all the opportunities and the amount of ... Sims 3 until the next flight at 8:45 a.m. Sims 3 or no Sims 3, sitting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  of [annotation note="not the final presentation, though. That had at ... my days at MIT working through a haze of sleep deprivation and pain ... this at all, but this fall I was in 2.009 [link]. We sent that project

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  at 10 am. I spend the rest of my time getting ready, reading my emails ... hour of 7 pm. I usually become aware of this fact at 6:30, so I speedrun ... back. I look at the signs and posters on the wall and admire models of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this ... were immediately met by the issue of Walker closing at 10 pm on the ... either, so we looked at the Saturday of that weekend, but it was fully

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  remote for Covid and I instead got to look at pictures of ceramics), but I ... the balance between being an artist and a student at an “Institute of ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  hope the Class of 2022 can have a Ring Delivery to celebrate at some ... first few weeks of the second semester, I went there at least three times ... remember the three of us scoffing at the idea of schools closing and virtual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who ... authentic(!) lectures."]Campus Preview Weekend,[/annotation] some of us ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025