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• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  with New England geese. Street-side pakoras with bowls of easy ... fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  manatees. (You have to kind of tilt your head at something like a 270 degree ... of Kyoto Station at sunset. With full bellies and seven years of good ... up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve, most of my First East floormates disappeared, their tiny suitcases ... prospect of four days of academic freedom exhilarated, and our evening

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  chooses a major at the end of freshman year.* *n.b. Actually, you need not ... choose at the end of their freshman year. Also, changing majors is ... Management Science at the end of my junior junior year. How do students choose

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  many, if not all, of my dear friends make fun of me for and something ... -handed while announcing that Early Action decisions for the Class of 2029 will be released next Tuesday, 12/17/2024, at 6:28 PM ET.  https

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  design at MIT. In fact–today’s the day of Gala 2025: April 27th! Setup ... ) is hard at work setting up the runway with a border of iridescent ... doors open at 5! This'll be the last update of tonight—I'll be back after

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There ... . 2. You actually need study skills at MIT. Okay, so this is kind of a ... instance. At the beginning of the semester, I dutifully sat at my desk in my

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  As the committee meets for the final week of the Early Action cycle ... , 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST.   To check you decision on the 17th ... process, please email mymitpassword [at] mit [dot] edu with your full

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  . Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish ... at 10. We got out like half an hour early so I just sat on a random bench in building 4 until my next class which was 6.005 at 11. Um. We

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  of coasters collected from my time in Munich. We start at the top ... (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let's zoom into some of the more interesting parts! On top we have a couple

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring ... of 12 people chosen at the end of freshman year to represent the class ... at MIT, Mitra '07 was a member of her class's RingComm. It's all kind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  "locker") and a website at http://www.mit.edu/~yourusername.And, of course ... , but start posting your Class of 2013 questions at the Orientation blog ... represents the transition of the newly admitted class from the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  . Week 1 In Week 1, we began curriculum. At the beginning of the program ... ]https://youtu.be/gfzJSjN6rV8[/embed] Reflection So...there's a lot of thoughts here. At first ... describe. This had happened a couple of times at MIT, and when this happened

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  despite weeks of complaining and telling faculty we're at our breaking point ... simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of ... with every day that comes and I want it to change. For those of you who

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  of myself at the foot of my goddess. Athena is also the name of MIT ... photos at Eric Schmiedl's gallery. Also courtesy of Eric, here's a ... Late on Sunday evening, just before the first day of MIT's finals

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  closed! at 10:54 EST. so i can go to bed without worrying about whom I'm not answering. thanks all!  Today is Sunday. I am at home. After I do a small amount of requisite shopping, I am going to eat an entire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  or a diagram that would supplement it. My new notebook has a table of ... their own style of taking notes and keeping organized. But if you ... [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness. After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once ... favoritism leveled at the Ring Committee - of the 11 members, 10 are affiliated

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the cool stuff they make. (Sponsored by Make magazine, of course.) There ... replica of Mousetrap the board game. Rather than have me add 25 hyperlinks

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups using "playful technologies". By playful technologies, they mean using new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017