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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  standing exams are usually available for a limited set of classes, so not all ... this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  . Then down — for a long time — until I found the road again. There was a sign for the Cooky Monster Cafe, at the same place as a B&B I ... feels like such a relief. Warm showers are my second favorite thing, after

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  cpw is pretty cool tho :D it's not perfect, but it sure is fun

  

  –you’ll have to wait for anika to share the full saga. it was a beautiful, tear ... sung? (blurred for privacy)[/caption] 9. chinatown at night boston is a ... (truly a feat for someone who is both asian and from hawaii), but mit has

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 28, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  , so try not to compare.  Start by saving a few months of expenses for ... , or a past event that they haven’t completely worked through yet.  For ... if you haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about.  So, look out for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate ... shining, and a score to settle, it is the perfect day for soccer. We start

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  a lot of Discords - for living groups, for clubs, and for all of MIT ... 'sex'[/caption] My UROP: A lot of the stuff I was supposed to do for ... kilometer a day. I'm trying not to worry about speed for now - I can either

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... and research med schools." I feel a lot more ready for what I want to do as a result. So what might that mean for a future, perhaps hesitant

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... my German dorm for this summer, laundry costs about half a euro per machine, but can only be paid for using a special laundry card, which can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... ’ve experienced. that’s not a view i resonate with anymore, but for a while it was ... there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i decided that was fine; i liked cooking for myself too much to risk being

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  -in throughout the course of the day. All the things I’ve taken for granted in a ... experiences for the PREFROSH! Our CPW begins with the Costco run of a lifetime ... This was me about a year ago: Even now, I remember what it felt

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  ? The guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse." Yet even though he didn ... . There is not always a freaking app for that. Take water again as an ... ’s too complex. Yes, there is definitely, absolutely a role for science

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  wearing a firefighter costume I bought off Amazon for a separate occasion ... make dinner for our vegetarian Co-op that night.  Shaws is about a ... A typical day in East Campus. Okay, it was not quite typical. It was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  more or less exactly how the PDFs are generated for us. A note on text ... decide to reapply to MIT for freshman admission. As a matter of policy we ... take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  a message board for an irrationally long time, it’s probably me ... Have you ever heard the joke: What’s green and has wheels? A logical ... ? Or maybe a green van? That’s green and has wheels, right?” A practical

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  strolling through the Infinite when I came across a poster for something ... a clip-on 8-bit tie. For the record, Shockfield thought it was some ... projects. One day a new challenge caught his eye and CourseRoad was created

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  No I'm not a Cylon (or at least not that I know). But for those with memories spanning more than a year it's simply easier to introduce myself as ... this website; every piece infused with a candor and respect for our

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  for it, and then I somehow got involved in a gang fight in a supermarket ... snowboarding with a couple of my friends from high school, and if you’ve ever been skiing or snowboarding or just plain cold for more than 20 minutes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another ... , these Course 2 (MechE) majors made a spot for me and my disdainful poetry ... Emerson Fellow’s senior recital for flute, bumped into a steel drum

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007