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• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but ... also just a really good way to remember the people who have helped me in ... another time"]never really expected to get homesick at all

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  strategy so you never want to visit their website or see their logo ever ... have been helpful in exposing me to new concepts to think about and ... --rare and funny to see so many professors in a room bantering. jamelle bouie

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work, Raymond had to get a hold of a fully automated, fully electronic nerf gun

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  , but people have been telling me that in order to get in you MUST take ... list of things one ought to do in order to get in. Do note that they don ... do to get in." No one activity is "better" than another: the best

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in ... again in our  environment, and then describes the core of the solution to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... this post a lot trying to break it down. In the end, I decided it came ... 's kinda a chonky set of claims, huh? I want to be very clear that this is in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the ... to 20 people, and they each worked on different projects. I was in the ... DesignPlus also gets you tap access to the MAD fabrication shop overall (on

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  shorter walk, but the santouka in harvard is easier to get to through the ... 're sad and need to get inspired in your life. the ramen is not the point of ... curry and donkatsu fills your nose and you smile. are you going to get

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  MIT are paying for flights for students to get to Boston (CPW). Is that ... at least a few days in advance, if at all possible) than to not ... @mit.edu, or call the office at (617) 253-3400. Thomas wrote, "In my planning to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to ... have a significant amount of time to dedicate to it.A key factor in these ... paper was due to get some feedback on my idea. She helped me clean it up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  the "Build Your Own Pizza" app on the Domino's website to order pizza ... In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... : the first intercollegiate Indian classical dance competition in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  bed early tonight. Things I'd like to blog about in the future? - Toy ... Scrawlings We'll see how many of those I get to, but they'd all make good ... somebody to take over his job and while nobody permanent has been decided

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... . And trying to do things in pursuit of "meaning" is probably bound to get ... encourage you to do so is to help put you in the same mindset that i am

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus ... the few that actually gets to go to school here. I remember that on one

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  , but this means that flights just force me to think. A lot. In the time ... decided I wanted to double major in 20 and 5, chemistry. Or maybe even ... in the back of my mind: what about Course 6? To give some clarity on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  the class and ultimately lose interest and motivation to do well in it ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in classes now, I need to take classes that genuinely interest me in order for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  and launched our website and our annual CTF puzzles and managed to get ... battling wordpress to get this out so it's a little over for me"]I’m crunched ... -dump-way-too-comprehensive-distinctly-personal version of a “How to put on a thousand-person hackathon in six months” guide

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  seem absurd at first glance and obvious in hindsight, so you get used to ... give both balls to my friend, one in each hand, leave the room, and give them the option to either swap the balls or keep them in place. then i re

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... building to see three guys hammering away at their instruments in the back ... in the front row where we were treated to some of the best live jazz I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008