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• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and loved ones. It won't be long now until we get to meet you in the Class of 2030 Discord

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  next weekend—they wanted to get away. I had nowhere to go; this is my ... money stopes coming in from the football program, we will have to get it ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  protesting that the glass must be jam-packed with the energy I need to get ... them at the Glass Lab, I ensured that I’d be the first to get my hands on ... This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  knowledge did. Most days, however, I strove to just get done with the agenda ... fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  often time people get to know me, and then learn about my Islam due to my ... parts of my personality without even getting to know me. But with patience ... Chennai, India and teach her the math & science skills to get into a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... 'll form the relevant neural pathways to be able to readily recall this ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1 ... House to get the cake. 12:30pm: Returned to the PCR, bearing the cake ... post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  't really get it either. After the presentation we all got to go right over ... terrible, torrential thundersnowstorm to get home (if German can merge words ... next week, and teachers aren't allowed to schedule any exams or major

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring ... . And though I had no idea where to host my event, or where to get the ... I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there ... , so I’ll have to look into getting these printed and shipped to campus

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get ... order to get to their favorite restaurants. After a couple days of touring ... adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  nights, it feels like i’ve sold my soul to get to mit. not in the sense of ... 't keep friends, I keep acquainted I'm not a prophet, but I'm here to profit ... to. “supposed to”, i guess, i don’t know what that even means. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  . Somewhat anticipating Spain was going to get canceled before it actually did ... This IAP, I was originally supposed to take an MIT class called ... ever beautiful Madrid, Spain. However, obviously, due to omicron, I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  don't mind a lack of sleep too much. In the morning, I get to watch the ... , have coordinated their Problem Sets to be due in almost symmetrical time ... freshman Orientation, although that seems too far removed to tell

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  eighty semi-hours Ten thousand thirty-two hundred emails to read Ten ... Something called BCC It's time now, to sing out Though the spamming never ... spam (oh you got to, you got to remember the spam) Remember the spam (I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... . My oldest daughter is a high school junior this year, so I'll get to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in ... (many) graduation requirements is to get a “concentration” in the ... , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the last three days that led up to that, because a lot went down. Wednesday On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  graduation will be in two months; that I’d get to have one gloriously carefree ... sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... time ever at MIT,  and then we went back home to not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021