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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  hassle, so it might not be worth the trouble. I would, however, highly ... wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... crosses out items. I guess in this sense, our agendas are more like cousins ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... creative. (Ok realistically, half the time I run out of my dorm in the ... , which can make a quick, no-fuss lunch. I was buying those until I read the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  tutor some students in physics, and I would then head home. Here, the day ... this GPA.” I would see, “Chance of Admission: 12%” from some website that ... , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I remembered. When the CodeIt application opened up in late August, I immediately applied. I thought I would be somewhat qualified for the job now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  overloaded sophomore fall, I had told myself that I would never subject myself ... conditions. It was "worse than anything I had seen in a long time." I promised myself, going into junior fall, that I would have to make things better

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  concert back in august![/caption] hello blog!!! my name is sarah and i am a ... reminisce for a quick second, i remember reading the blog for the 1st time in ... featuring me in a guest post so i can go full circle and share my own story

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them ... German I in Germany program offered by MISTI!! Do you have any friends who ... every person in the class was like "PFFFF! Can I take German I again? That

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  young man fresh in college would drive 17 miles each way from his ... are wondering, the admissions blogger of whom I speak is me. In the ... about keeping a car in the city and commuting to work this summer :) I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  because i realized in may that i could actually attend this year, and immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the ... los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in ... [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus ... campus.  The RingComm chair is at least the 3rd in a row from the same

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the ... . Enjoy. I'm off to study for 7.05. In response to not-so-recent posts by ... none of the current bloggers live in ILGs, I'm appreciative of Keri

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  's website to see if I could afford one.  The math never worked :( In late ... I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it ... fell in love with it.  It was the second Tesla I'd ever seen up close and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  minutes after it was announced. So, I made a script that would text me an ... . During most breaks and in-between some panels, I pulled out my laptop and ... pm but I had to be back in Boston by 5 to help set up for the MIT $100K

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  poor. I am sure that i would recieve a very good score in this sat ... wondering if I sent in my transcript, would you guys look at it just to see my ... . ------------------------------------- A few people wrote in asking if I accept personal email and what my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  game but I can’t join in. Less grading would still be nice, but I ... else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on ... mixed up. I've been reflecting on the changes in bits 'n' pieces as the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... good website that I found today MIT-area shopping guide by Spouses and ... that new HDTV is! I may not have the money to buy it, but, hey, I do have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... shipping and delivery takes a while"]YamiBuy.[/annotation] I watch a lot of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?

  one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own application website and admissions requirements.