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• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... through Boston and tried to run to the airport [ [annotation note="although nothing is possible with the heart of the cards 😏 jk please don’t do this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... tempted by the fruits of Silicon Valley or otherwise find their passion

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the people stumbling across the blogs are among the tens of thousands of anxious students and family members who are going through the college

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , which I came to appreciate over the two years that I did this research ... fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and you save the world. That isn’t how it turned out, though. I started the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is nothing new. Usually I enjoy the walk, but when the weather sucks or I ... carry me. But sometimes, the Tech Shuttle is so far from the nearest stop

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  The Putz-Tetazoo exchange program is a longstanding tradition where a resident of [annotation note="third floor of the east parallel of the dorm ... ="second floor of the west parallel of East Campus"]Putz[/annotation] swap rooms

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  [caption id="attachment_72593" align="aligncenter" width="1170"] the ... , the prequel I've wanted to go into computer science since seventh grade ... the NSA and the tour guide I had was really uptight and that kind of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  Hiii, Audrey C. ‘24 here! I’m briefly infiltrating the blogs to talk about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking ... , I’m on the committee that runs the program (along with Cami, Alan, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  admissions.  Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition ... -necessitated innovations like the now ubiquitous interactive virtual information sessions, I remain most interested in facilitating the reflection and investigation

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  be cOnSuMeD by the lab. ENDLESS. Helper functions. Helper functions for the helper functions. Functions to make test cases. Helper functions for the functions to make test cases to help me figure out what the FLIPPIN

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the ... so that I could go home for less than a thousand dollars. The fried

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  events such as Splash, Spark, Cascade, and several others! The program I ... teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the ... at the moment. But seriously, the breadth is absolutely astonishing

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  To set the mood: Come Home by Baynk. [caption id="attachment_38993 ... first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a ... .” - ETH Zürich Student Exchange Office The past month has been quite the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT Leader ... the big dreams that brought you to campus in the first place. Leader

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... the most useful thing ever, why hasn’t anybody thought of that?” (My

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  ! Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you wrap your MIT ... Part 2, please go to the bottom of each page of the document, select save and continue through the entire document and resubmit. We find this

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can ... was only around 70 students and the entire school was in a warehouse. Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the ... might interest several high school students. The details follow below

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with that. Here’s what it means. Last week was Career Fair. The day when suits replace the sweatpants+baggy tee combos and everyone clutches a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015