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• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  oscilloscope"][/annotation] At the end of 2.678, I have to return the Analog ... psets, so I spend an unfortunate amount of time at my other, more ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  Professor Winston. There are many geniuses at MIT, but not all of them ... would say, ‘You won’t be alone if you take care of your people’, so we ... I will no longer see Professor Winston, one of the few professors who

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  for good, MIT is a quintessential expression of America at its best ... Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With ... ’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  rummaging about in the archives of the Bodleian I had found an old map of labyrinthine catacombs along the banks of the Charles River. So we pipped across the pond to explore the secrets of the old colonies and whatnot. I must

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the ... before, I will declare Course 4 – Architecture at the end of this semester ... cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  the bathroom at the beginning of january i flew to sf for a job ... to mine at least, you tense up your abdomen and end up with a lot of ... warning: mentions of anxiety, panic attacks, heart attacks. please

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  anything, but I am incredibly skilled at making glass ponies. [caption id="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For those of you who don't know, this is what a pony looks like: [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  knowledgeable letter on your behalf. A few sentences at the top of a letter ... We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... of recommendation from different academic areas of study, we understand
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come ... from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I ... ), but also personalized lists for each participant. Some of my items include: writing haikus paying respects at the location where I

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens with hexagonal cross-sections at various angles, the physical properties granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  squealing* Yeahhh, MIT! Our boat went kind of slow at first, but after a ... alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness ... the first one of the fall semester. The five of us headed out to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... that might pave way for the rest of my life. I got my first shot at ... remembered I hadn't eaten all day. You know that sense of entitlement that we

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  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 and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story short, Marilee Jones, our Dean of Admissions, misrepresented her ... job at MIT. What started as a mistake in her youth was compounded over

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily true of all MIT students, but are certainly not true of people anywhere else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to ... Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities Period, is a special four-week mini-term full of interesting, fun and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007