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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I'm a little touchy about ... person and keeps telling me to "find the good". I decided to "find the good ... , and we're proud of to be a little offbeat. Around here, "nerd" isn't an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read ... read." Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince would soon be released. I

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  that they hold and the choices that they make. So I figured that a half-decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... importance because you might just pay attention to the little things and get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  alphabetical order (yes, I cannot pick one) from each of her albums and will be ... album that I started really listening to and liking last summer. It is still my favorite album and I stand by the claim that it has no skippable

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  -5 classes"]72 units,[/annotation] since one class was a 3-unit and one was a 9-unit. I learned many things, consumed many coffees, and saw dawn too many times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  why I took both a comic book writing class and this class. I've always ... and why campus should be open. That's kind of a spicy opinion, so we're going to move forward from that blog and instead focus on my third

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  " and the responses I get are usually somewhat bland. "Everyone wasted a ... , Call me and I’ll tell you a joke Oh shit... Should I be joking at a time like this? I was only really able to process everything and anything

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year’s Affirmations can i run MIT affirm id be so good at it 🥺

  

  could help me (and my roommate) achieve my (our) dream of running MIT ... the way my friends and I speak (MIT AFFIRM my speech is INTELLIGIBLE ... , poor, nasty, brutish, and short." We had to improvise. My roommate

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding on you when you travel. You will need them. And of course, your passport.  I only talked about travel-related and international

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three ... back and re-read the sample posts that I applied with a couple of times

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  time I went home this fall. It was mid-October, and I don’t actually ... and I have no regrets"]bathtub.[/annotation] Laying there, staring at ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam ... while [annotation note="the top 10 scorers win $15 each and the next top ... involved "wits, skill, and the teensiest amount of luck," to quote the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  -track during Independent Activities Period (IAP) and nearly NR-ed (no ... ="The attitude that your grades don't really matter and you should do the bare ... an identity and confidence that didn’t depend on my grades. At the same

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student ... prototyping sessions and fluid analyses with subtitles like "real engineers ... -called brass rat, a touchstone of MIT culture with a long and illustrious history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  check your decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you will receive a decision on the 15th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  -ups and spare parts all over the floor? Some do. Others are less techy and more artsy, and a lot are somewhere in between. But everyone does something to personalize their room, and they're all very creative in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to ... decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  first two weeks of November, and then last week was suddenly too free. Now it's Thanksgiving break. Next week will be absurdly busy, and I am not ... there, and then almost missed my flight back to Boston. I grew restless

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  dinner with my brother (MIT '17), aunt, and uncle (who live in Boston), and ... balancing family and American culture; I identify strongly with the main character Gogol and also, to some extent (and not without shame), the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  my day)—but not from the freshman side and not from the other side. A ... Stuff at Simmons (along with some torso-sized bowling pins and a handful ... observe and absorb my and your experiences and fun to compile a project that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015