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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  what does the end of high school mean, for you? the days pass so slow; the months pass so fast

  

  places to meet new faraway friends and do new faraway things, as all of ... down. you’ve never had lunch there, even though most of your friends have, but you suppose it’s too late to change that now. all of your friends

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • June 10, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  women at the Institute (MITRA NOTE: I have pictures of this, and will ... 's Women's Week. Check out the variety of events that are going on. Women's Week 2005 November 5th-10th "To promote a model of femininity that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... challenging classes that are offered at your school and do as well as you can in them--if your school has AP/IB, you should take at least a few of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  , working faster: psets, labs, and readings each week new. The art of being ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  hopes; MIT had been my dream for so long. I felt like a new version of ... possibilities. New cities, new paths unfolded, and MIT was out of the picture. It ... thriving at my state school (Purdue!!) and have found a community of bright

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  ; the police office in the basement of the student center closes at 2pm ... cleverly hidden basement offices (turn left at the bottom of the stairs, not ... machine to pop a balloon, with at least 5 transfers of energy. The Junction

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  works for me - I successfully merged into a band of '14s at a party and ... Project Lab, this is the Biology Major's rite of passage at MIT. It is unofficially and colloquially known as the class at MIT with the most number of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  instead of 450 — they will be wider, at least 20 inches instead of 17 inches ... I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back when, when I blogged about the new chairs that could possibly be

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  of chased pigeons, and even more Dunkin Donuts later, we ended up at ... Spongebob charms and a shiny new pair of white Crocs. Archer was the bag man ... heart of Boston that didn't exist back when I was at MIT, and it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... me assuming that I’m Nisha, and I hear “Ankita, I thought I saw you at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of ... I haven’t blogged much at all this year. I remember how happy I was ... experiences with untold numbers of people. Maybe I can even give them some

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  a community of women. To my knowledge, the only man who lived here at ... was offering the items (like the jugs of cleaner) to the next tenant ... of other MIT undergraduate women. We're part of MIT's FSILG (Fraternity

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  resources your school might offer. and of course if you have a better design ... i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  decisions for the Class of 2028 will be released Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12 ... [annotation note="bloggers: i'm looking at your spotify wrapped and taking in the information and creating new assumptions and analyses about u btw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... much of it or something and they were going to come back. At 4:58am, an ... yourself to the many loaves of bread at desk." I was excited - free bread

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  class of 2019. So I thought, what better way to end my time at MIT than ... the next part of my life and I will not forget my time at MIT! I love you all and thank you for being a part of my time at MIT <3  

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox ... of Student Life Benedict and Dean of Undergraduate Education Hastings

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in ... I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... become a doctor. I was going to rock out at my classes and a bazillion

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people ... and rigid. when i got back to campus i felt my new hair and looked at ... i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016