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• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... inboxes at the end of freshman year.  my letter, written while walking home from the auditorium, was a list of eleven questions. sadly, at the end of

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of ... labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  this one is gonna be fun. Today we will be going on a tour of three ... concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours ... problem together, first you need to find a partner whose level of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  would be doing this kind of stuff in college, she would be excited and (hopefully) proud of me. But, it's definitely not what she would've imagined it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the ... reach the bottom of the screen. I chose Guitar Hero for this project for several reasons: It’s dynamic, fun, and one of my favourite

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago[/annotation] was CPW, or Campus Preview Weekend. A lot of really neat events happened ... [/annotation] with homework and exams. I have a lot of half-written blogs that I want

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going into something stressful. Many of these were songs I listened to while I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a mountain range of saguaros. Sah-wah-rows. I am from Arizona, which means it’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new ... -pitch run-down of the intro blog is “Cambridge has no fields or horses or ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i am too busy being sad and burnt out i've been spending my time playing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my ... , when I move out of Boston? I'm scared that I'm going to leave this place

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  midst of planning Comedy Night and SpringFest. I'm really nervous since I ... Fest which is arguably one of the biggest event, if not the biggest event, of ... in Times Square watched The Book of Mormon on Broadway gotten lost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  you aren’t comfortable sharing with others. All of our privacy policies ... Registrar’s Office and Office of the First Year for example) and with some
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  friends, refreshing some of my math knowledge, incredibly weird technology ... figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... - alison"]midnight[/annotation] Fold a piece of paper 21 times Watch 30 minutes of cute animal vids Delete all the phone screenshots you don’t use

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  kind of preferential "bump" to students who apply to MIT during Early ... we have received a number of questions from prospective students who ... ,[/annotation] receive grades, obtain letters of recommendation, or otherwise develop their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  gorgeous. I’ve been here before. None of the places I’ve walked so far are ... I’m actually living here, in the middle of it all, that I’m sleeping and cooking and stressing over psets while surrounded by all of this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  apartments with [annotation note="9 out of the 11 other freshmen, one junior ... here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton ... of environment. I'm really enjoying the agency that living here has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  become a blogger, of course"]ever again[/annotation]! But, now comes the waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020