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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... , MIT is like "I WANT WEIRD STUFF, GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!" Of course, MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets ... I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... middle of my Thursday doing random stuff for CPW and then I UROP from 2

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  My holiday story: At the end of December my son's preschool decided ... gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day. My wife and two of her close friends whose children are in my son

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I ... degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts ... Memorial Drive side instead of Amherst Alley because I don't quite grasp the ... . In high school (and middle school, and elementary... and college), I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  full of personal matters on top of school, not to give in to indifference ... school. But of course, not everything went perfectly no matter how much I ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  hussies", because you are the best judge of which school is best for you, I ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  , which led to a long series of crying over graduate school applications ... of my last remaining graduate school applications. 15/01/2025 4 ... requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  … since I was a freshman in high school.” I’m a classic case of falling down ... , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  lot of chicks while I was in elementary school in Singapore." More ... broaden out in graduate school. Here's the first slide of my class: And ... Splash stats: 2670 High School students 517 teachers* 701 classes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of files. One of them contains a lot of documents that I definitely wouldn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parent event offerings based on feedback, requests, and questions. Some of ... I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking... this entry is for you, and is specifically about CPW (regardless of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  receiving a letter from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the ... A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is navigating around a variety of limitations (algorithm runtime, computer memory

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything ... of Alpha Delta Phi brothers will often slide behind the grand piano in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on the Class of 2015 Facebook Group and liked very much is called Learning ... , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

   interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... ’t really give out a lot of advice on these blogs. A year ago, on a post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days worth of audiobooks–while doing chores, while falling asleep, and ... school, but I never really started thinking about the habit until coming to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  't actually come in contact with since my senior year of high school. I'm going ... MIT has this uncanny way of making you learn life lessons extremely ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  until they at least hit preschool first. Or, better yet, high school ... free to ask me questions! Otherwise, stay tuned. I have plenty of ... . Literally. The likelihood of you seeing MIT quite like this is somewhat small

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011