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• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  've got for you. Good luck, and enjoy the purchase of your new computer ... I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  back from MIT is the music. Classical guitar has been a part of my life ... MIT or your other choice university -- or you need to appeal your award, you may request an extension of the May 1 deadline until your financial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  't offer something to meet every students' unique individual learning styles, we have a variety of programs to choose from. MIT’s first-year learning communities offer a distinct kind of learning environment that
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... bookshelf more filled than before, a new coffee cart with 16 mugs, and me ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  lot of concepts that I had at least looked at before, but almost none of ... feel left out. The class has a nice balance of new information combined ... was a terrible idea. At the end of the first semester I had to scramble

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to offer, although it does mean that people sometimes look at me funny as I ... version of Nutella: In sum: there are a lot of things you can do at MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... happened to people at MIT. At some point during the worst of my fever, I was ... .086 which (though I didn’t know it at the time) is possibly one of the WORST

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  should report on some of the festivities here at East Campus. The dorm put ... The month of August was pretty busy for me - a combination of work and preparation for the new term. Last week, for example, I day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of ... "Body Battery" - it's basically a measure of how much energy you have at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  different residential communities at MIT. For those of you who have already ... ) are a great way to get a preview of what campus life is like at MIT ... The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  question below: The vast majority of crime at MIT is committed by non ... the other.) Finally, it is safe to roam campus at all hours of the ... the ring (RingComm) is selected at the end of freshman year, they design

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  that's true. Lillian: Well, I think a lot of people, at your age, don ... this much bigger company, I had the time of my life. I was in a new city ... : That's good. CJ: But I've also been thinking about a lot of questions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  nothing at all.  During my senior year of high school, my dad told me this ... praise you and give you an inflated impression of who you actually are. At ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)

  

  artwork, a tight-knit community with traditions, and a meal plan full of new ... : attaching a fun, new piece of media in every email sign-off. It was a joy ... , I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 19, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  officers at MIT are expected to work 6 days out of the week, to meet our ... where it happens Since I spend most of my day reading files at my desk, I ... context requires the reader to collocate a lot of information at once

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  commonly shared feeling among a lot of the students here at MIT, and maybe ... time that I've been here at MIT. And change, of course, isn't bad. I ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick ... better experience for you guys. First, we'll be adding a lot of new

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  awesome. Meeting so many of you over the course of this weekend at random ... -renowned scientific training that MIT offers. Yes, we do get stressed out at times, but ... offer. A lot of people are wary of the statement that "CPW is fake - you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of ... separate by terms, shall we? I'm officially retired from the sport of basketball, as of late March. Our season ended in the first round of the NCAA

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  office(s) at your school(s) of choice with emails, letters, and phone calls ... of a student's ability to thrive at Stanford is through demonstrated ... want when they enroll at MIT, so this will not be a critical part of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005