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• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world ... instructions that I would need to follow in order to be sure I follow the best

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things ... students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  from the collapsible litter group in 2.009 (that didn't make any sense to ... to do science. In the end, these were the results: Come to MIT, you get to do this.

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to ... to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to ... particularly awesome this week 4) We had our first followup meeting to my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... me it was in the cartoon "Herr Meets Hare" where Bugs Bunny first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  with history, and I want to get back and see the 99% of the sights that I ... laugh at me when I say that. When I get my act together and go over to Mr ... decided to raise Liv as if Todd Rundgren were her father. Since her mother

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... to use Freshman P/NR to take the absolute hardest classes and get them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... ! Originally, I was banking on getting to take the glassblowing class over IAP

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  -of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that "fresh start" feeling that students always get in the fall, but the drive ... encapsulate the feelings I get whenever I have to say goodbye to a chapter of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  password, just go to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In ... someone from our team will get back to you!']login[/annotation] to apply ... LI?si=TfJbLmrG1eoFio8R Until then, try not to think about decisions too much; in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you ... because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through ... social media, broadly defined. In short, I wanted to design and teach the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  fun to get to take advantage of it all now. 2. Tent camping It ... (Indigenous People's Day) to go camping - it's late enough in the season that ... you could get to on the T, therefore saving us from having to pay for a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  can get a PhD in math and teach classes for the rest of my life to ... . Sometimes, I wish I could get rid of the voice. That it didn’t just linger in ... about in CJ's amazing post on Celeste), but the plot point I want to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... more panic once I get back to Cambridge. Oh wells… I mean, I’

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  !🎶 Listen to crab rave on repeat for an hour. Lie in the snow and make a snow ... that hopefully more passers-by get to enjoy it. Step 2: Acquire supplies ... assemblers, plus one person to gather loose snow-mortar in trash bags for the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to ... to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  scheduled entry.... One of the things I like about being home is getting to ... 'm on to you, Melinda. In fact, I've kept the 2002 Time cover asking, "CAN ... constituencies if they get a picture with Bono flashing a peace sign in his purple

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  , whatshouldtimcallme.tumblr.com, get ready to go out at night, or just stay in to karaoke ... worried about getting put in a quad, there are only 10 on campus, all located in Baker House. Don't sweat it!) The year got off to a rocky start

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the beautiful State Room in Boston to receive their glorious Brass Rats! Michael ... friends in my class that I was really excited to see! We had a great time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014