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• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  state of mild euphoria from the excess of new friends and creativity and ... Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... Gregor, BC, Baker, McCormick, and Maseeh, the broad avenue of dorm row was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  After considerable twisting and tweaking, I have contrived to design ... Sunday night, and I feel as though I've spent the last forty-eight hours traipsing through puddles of psets, EMT drills, writer's block, dance, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  the Institute’s ROTC programs, and we look forward to working with DOD ... of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  choose to accept the offer, or not accept the offer and apply to other ... matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could ... and did not match, we already have your QuestBridge application and will
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW AND WIND CHILLS IN THE 5 TO 15 DEGREE RANGE ... EVENING TO 5 PM EST MONDAY... TODAYS SNOW AND FLURRIES IN SOUTHERN NEW ... NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT AND NORTHWARD THROUGH WORCESTER COUNTY INTO THE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  offers shuttles day and late into the night around campus in Cambridge and ... MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and ... through our EMT certified officers on cruiser, motorcycle, bicycle, and foot
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  more to do with his concern for my sleep-deprived state and less to do ... , because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing ... actually was, except that there were latkes and they were SOOOO good. I made

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  and universal experience for all MIT students. Recommendations for ... fun fact started feeling disingenuous as I strayed further and further ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  than 60 countries and more than a million participants, including more than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  graduate, and so, in two years, I should have a degree in mathematics from ... really bothers you, go download the game, play it through, and this blog ... also clearly note where spoilers begin and where they end.) 1. Voices In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... A week and a day ago, roughly 7:30 pm: Me: Hi Mom! Sorry I haven ... , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  studying, I'm on fire. But it's often hard to get into that state of high and ...     Winter is coming. Oh, and so are finals. It's my ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live ... Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and file. Before that, I've been catching up on email and phone calls. This ... staff to get together and catch up. And before that, I was sleeping off

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... , Koch Institute, Division of Student Life, MIT Dining. Meanwhile, the MIT ... student residences and clubs held Pi Day events as well. For a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  initiative and offered a server to host everything, as well as some individuals ... of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... this project had me SHOOK. I got Minecraft a week ago and had never

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... would be too distracting, and any quieter spaces would only serve to ... the next few days. surviving on snacks and free food scavenged from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  degree in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences with a concentration ... It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in ... and 1984, when Amherst Alley ("dorm row") was moved farther from Baker

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... year where I reflect about my life, and I think I need that :P Sidequest

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019