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• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  Creating Video Games I used to play video games in middle school, but kind of lost interest in them when I got to high school. So, I never really ... like an outsider in the class since I just haven't played video games in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that's what I can offer, because that's what has helped me most this semester ... pushing that into the future. I've tried, and it's not pretty. I can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  which point in a job interview can I ask about salary?"  Stay posted. May ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... me got photographed, so I'm crossing my fingers that I might be in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Johnson Rink, was the Fall Career Fair. I missed in-person career fairs ... years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  doing essentially nothing (I'm @ing myself), other MIT students have hit ... ! _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Monterrey, Nueva León, México-   After finals, I decided to immediately flee the country, which is what I did through the Big Dreams program. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ’s flowchart comes in-it takes all the worry out of pre-meet packing. You can ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to ... . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much ... .06 [Cell Biology]: I ended up dropping this class in the fall, but it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  in person from an applicant when I was working as an EC in the San ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him ... : "That is an interesting question. "First, I believe in managing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep ... frame. But for now I hope I can share with you the joy of melty metal

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  in the face with a plateful of whipped irony. Even I can't run and hide ... abandon faith in health insurance and maybe even dentists. When you can ... feel inferior or weirded out or worried about network problems that I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  ZOMG...CPW BEGINS TOMORROW!! AHHH! Aren't you super excited?!?!? I ... current student hosts. (If your host hasn't been in touch with you, don ... 't gotten back to him/her yet, do so ASAP so you can work out living

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some ... this subject while growing up in the 2010s, but this was the first time i ... , enough about the opioid crisis. in january i was looking for new biology

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  -Perez) and I engaged in an online experiment: we took all of the lectures for 6 ... . This may sound like we simply fall back into a well-worn rut, but in fact MIT is quite remarkable in its constant pedagogical experiments and

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  our usernames back in those days), I chose madmatt as my username. It ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting you choose your own email address (you can laugh at your friends at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent ... wall to change in size. I was my team's Information Officer, which meant ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I ... , is something I greatly miss in college. I'm all for cardio and exercise ... the inside and wondering how long I can keep the charade up) Five

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... scores: 0 While driving in the car yesterday, I heard MIT Civil & ... , I came across an article in today's Boston Globe about Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005