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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  Borsch - (Moscow), through the Baltic States and on to the Russian capital ... , fast cars, or even good cars. It's just you, your pants-mobile and ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  is a self-governing country and not America's 51st state (despite what ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  friend Elissa H. '21 and started talking about Steven Universe because it ... affectionately refer to as our memory mushroom), and when it overflows (which it ... like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... ++, Arduino electronics & programming, and survey design + human

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so ... between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... of struggling to define expectations, going back and forth between

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  this Thursday afternoon as a break, and so the room degree ... was only beginning to take off as common slang, and MITx, which is now ... attended my recitation for 8.012 (freshman physics), and my recitation leader

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  get an engineering degree from MIT and then...you know, not use it ... wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... librarian. I just thought all the electronic scanners and stuff they used all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  into the depths of meditative relaxation, AKA, I ate some fruit and read ... : Exam 1: 52.5%. I may have choked. Turn on the slow-motion cameras, and ... numbness. I considered having a stroke and then decided against it, mostly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I ... "Reply to all recipients?" and "Include original message in reply?" You have to answer these with either 'Y' or 'N.' And you have to be careful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases ... . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... boring ones? Today's topic is housing, because it's raining out and housing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and ... -buying. RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it, and stages ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  boarding another. Hour 83 Approximately 3500 miles, 12 states, and four ... ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  your future classmates and get questions answered by current students. Here it is: MIT Class of 2013. (...and international students can join ... ! It will be in the mail on Wednesday, and in your mailboxes soon after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Mira Nair came to speak last year and kind of offered my friend a role in ... Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  realized my mistake and erased the year, I realized that 2008 was three years ago. People born on 18 August 2008 are walking and talking all over the ... possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  people in my life who have offered me referrals and to edit my stuff and to ... butch blues by leslie feinberg"]reading[/annotation], and a lot of ... moleskine notebook since the beginning of junior year of high school, and now

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random opportunities around Boston and MIT campus. A lot of these adventures start because of the MITOC (MIT Outing Club) mailing list and other email

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  , and tiramisu. Unfortunately, I don't think the class is being offered ... -stop studying: 8 cups of coffee Three exams: 5 wrinkles and 3 gray hairs Having 2+ weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Materials books. The themes, concepts, and narratives from the books have ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is ... true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019