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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  afraid to not pursue things even in the face of your new friends telling ... authoritative, which is what new people want to see from an established member of ... high chance of inadvertently making new friends and having lots of laughs

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  about 15-20 minutes. Every day, at least one hour out of the many that I ... sleep at night. And I don't get much out of it. One hour spent and very ...   Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• 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 / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... after a night of celebrating the great new job I have and the seriously ... celebration for all of MIT (and all of Cambridge practically) on Killian Court

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 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 / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  -picture view would be difficult. Luckily, that sort of thing is easy at MIT. I ... admissions site at the end of the Fall '05 semester, and learned about some ... looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope ... work at the loss of self-care and health.  However, amidst the chaos of classes and ridiculous amount of stress bestowed among the students here at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• 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 / 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 / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our history.  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  proud of the class we've admitted. The predominant feeling, however, is sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful ... it, but I never do. We'll spend the next week preparing all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  During our Independent Activities Period (IAP), essentially most of ... semester -- numerous for-credit classes are on offer. The full first semester of several language classes is available in condensed form: three hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• FAQ / Visit

  How do I sign up for an info session and/or campus tour?

  We look forward to showing you what makes MIT so special! We offer in ... MIT! There are many ways to enjoy our campus from the comfort of your ... -created version of MIT in Minecraft!
• 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 / 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

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT ... flux over a slice of the Earth to arrive at the same answer with a one ... looked at what happens on one “slice” of the Earth)? Turns out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• 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 / 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