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• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  degrees Fahrenheit in Miami for a couple of days (yes, in Miami, water ... For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... mom, cleaning around the house, meeting up with high school friends

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  . For about a couple of weeks I was sure I was a 2A-product design major ... sleeping schedule in my senior year of high school. I slept at 10:00 every ... As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  more into the design aspects of technology, and the work that i do at the ... basically the first day of school. i can't tell you how many jobs i've applied ... way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  people here go from being in the top 10% of their high school class to the ... letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles ... the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something that's probably only offered at MIT.) Hey all, No school is perfect. At college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  to fix it and then bam — you're out of time. No good.   It is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school ... Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... combinations across different stations. Although they are designed to be self ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... of making me, the superstitious person, look ridiculous when I replied ... them out to the surface; the whimsy of it all only adds to the appeal

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Wikipedia and in AP Art History, back in high school; much of what I know of ... elements of design draw their eye. I’m hoping I’ll have more of that, a month ... Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  difficulty of MIT, but to all you high school students who work hard: don’t let ... aspects of high school are definitely worse than college and the working ... ’s simply true. I still remember what the pressure of high school was like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a Burger King employee... which makes my eventual MIT degree all that more ... , breakfast, and lunch!) Though he's spending his summer thousands of miles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  effects (e.g., I learned that I do well in school compared to peers) of such ... role in my path to graduate school; but in the context of this class, it ... subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  imagined college in high school, I imagined being in one of these huge halls ... significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here ... -ish shape, and will now describe all of them as we reminisce. 1

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... Computing Group. The leader of our group is Zoya Bylinskii, a PhD student, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in ... school with, and we saw each other through the peak of our middle school anime phases. she visited me at the beginning of the school year, last

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc ... celebrate the release of the new Harry Potter book: One of my favorite

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The ... Triforce was created by three Goddesses to serve as a symbol of their sacred

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006