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• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... ; some new ones will be added. We've hired some student "experts" on subjects like UROP and Arts. I am SO excited to roll out the new layout and

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  , extracurriculars, careers… At one of my lowest points, I decided to write a letter ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... at East Campus"]slightly dangerous ride[/annotation] and things are

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  Texas, where the concept of a fraternity (especially at a state school ... seemed as if their primary source of entertainment was joy at the expense ... . Nonetheless, I kept my worldview at the forefront of my actions and was

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  , something especially appreciated at an institution notorious for being one of ... One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that ... use of PNR in various ways, where you'll often hear phrases like "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  of my life. I spent at least twenty hours a week in meetings, then came ... Days was one of the best experiences I’ve had at MIT so far - see you ... “kickoff day,” where a brand-new challenge is revealed and teams are given a

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those ... whimsical sense of humor. She's so willing to try new things. The lens in ... spill over. I look out into the distance and squint at where the sky meets

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a ... to new basketball plays in fractions of a second. it turns out the kind ... questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  nisha sort of had the right idea here"]foaming at the mouth, “OMIGOD ... great state of New Hampshire and unironically love fall colors, hiking ... not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  important new area of research. The effort will reach across the MIT campus ... managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), based at the MIT Media Lab. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined ... say with complete accuracy, that I am flying over Elmira, NY at 24 ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  .110 (thermodynamics), due Friday Meeting with my new UROP mentor at the Broad ... filled with so many different kinds of people, with so many different ... have drastically different ways of spending their precious "spare" time

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  ... a new version of you? (Did anyone watch Felicity? These lyrics are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show ... , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the ... the thought that I, personally, am representative of anything at MIT ... preserve a more interesting mix of classes at any given time. After the first

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  Rowing at MIT The heavyweight men near the Museum of Science. PC ... high school who had become tired of staring at the bottom of a swimming ... -frosh, at the CPW of 2012. My host was a rower on the men’s lightweight team

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  Championships, and here is the group of us at MJM after our "sendoff," aka a mock ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  ." For example, computers can analyze thousands of samples at a time, he ... used to that. I'm used to being one of the smartest students, but at MIT ... beach at night and looking at the stars.' [Cydney Scott / The Post] Corey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  anyway. *** The most common piece of advice I've gotten since arriving at ... a new pursuit that is worthy enough of becoming a story I tell other ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’ve taken so far at MIT because of how unintuitive the concepts are, and the ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  me into choosing a major at the start of my college experience, because ... it down. And while at the end of my first-year, I still wasn’t fully ... , you will learn a lot: fields you never knew existed, new lenses of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010