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• Blog / MIT Life

  post-blizzard pics except idk how to use photoshop

  

  have fire days though). But since Boston got nearly 17 inches of snow ... Tuesday. After the brunt of the blizzard passed through on Monday evening, I strolled around to take some photos of the snow while it was still fresh. I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2030. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings above), and the walls are covered with an eclectic mishmash of posters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... ; high school –> college"]pretty much linear direction of my life[/annotation]has kind of exploded into a thousand different directions. Usually, I can

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to skeins of yarn and unfinished crochet projects, I can say that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i ... waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra semester of "real" mit, and taking way more classes than normal so that i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of this too honestly too much of this some of this and a sad amount of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... success that it was. To most of you, this puzzle probably ranged somewhere ... a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  Rowing at MIT The heavyweight men near the Museum of Science. PC ... Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing ... with you because I think a lot of you might be like me and would feel the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  working on a bunch of cool video projects while more relaxing things like ... of the dorm occasionally. So without further ado, here are some other meanings for IAP: 1. Infinite Amounts of Pancakes My friends Jamal E. '14 and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  On this day celebrating eagles, barbeque, and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence (not the signing; get your facts straight, kids), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  Neutrality, and Complexity Theory   Humble Bundle/Boston Festival of ... " website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  sketched up this guide on one of my flights after 4 hours of intense analysis. Or maybe 20 minutes of doodling on napkins, you can decide.   ... you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... metaphorical plot, it's a true inspiration for my secret pipe dream of becoming

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  one with you - with full knowledge of the fact that I'll probably never live it down. MIT Tech TV Oh - and I also found one of Quinton, from ... you on campus. We get to find out which of you we'll be host

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  trio of my favorite MIT students featured prominently on an online ... of 25 African American students under the age of 21 who are making extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010