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• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  past, most colleges drew from a mostly regional pool of students. Now ... Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for ... . Hundreds of guidance counselors and admissions officers from across the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  transformed into a huge sports stadium, with gigantic spotlights emanating from ... , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I ... was likely from remembering the one we had in my 7th grade science teacher's classroom), but I knew I wanted one in my dorm. After doing a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  from a relatively new (1-2 years) teacher, or a less extravagent one from ... ... finally! ------------------------ Shikhar wrote: "I am a bit confused regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  first two), started by Jonathan learning the critic’s monologue from ... before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... that i am biased because i have just been hearing about the cube a lot

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  . Please don't try to draw a trend line from 3 points - it's ... admitted from the waitlist? First: there is a link to the waitlist ... aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  's gone through many, many forms, from 5 classes and a UROP to 5 classes and ... .[/caption] 6.08 From here, Aiden and I rushed over to 6.08, a class we share with ... have a 6.08 lab from 7:30 to 10pm (disgusting, I know) so my day isn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  I guess summer is coming to a close. My schedule was posted on Web ... for a while.] The double :-( :-( is my Friday. 2 - 4 pm ... -speaking countries. Materials are from Spain and Latin America and include films, short

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners ... question. It was a bit weird to be sitting in the same room with the guy who ... - in person he's just a guy. Not the guy who revolutionized everything

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  dorms on campus. If someone likes a different dorm from the one they're in ... at night, I pause to take a deep breath and look at Boston from across ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  your own deck of cards, separate from other players' decks. In a ... cards from your deck raises the average strength of a card you do draw ... You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... happened consecutively (from 9pm on Thursday to Noon on Friday). Ever since ... happy. And IAP has come with a fair amount of work, but not nearly enough

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  ! My name is YQ, and I’m one of Lydia’s friends from Random Hall. A few ... , knit, and crochet from a fairly young age, and I never stopped. My high ... submissions with a geometric flavor from last year’s exhibition:    L-R: Organic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  welcoming. I’ve learned a lot from mentors and friends who share their ... , ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a ... building project is like a sidequest: fully unnecessary and a lot of work

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  if you decide to go to college far from home or in a big city. The end ... talking about navigating the transition from a small town to a big city for ... . You can read all about it here.  And if you're from a small town and

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  -dimensional world results in a two-dimensional image of what can be seen from where ... mean, it looks like a plane at a given location (if you suppose that you can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a gift from the god of poor frozen college kids. The main part of ... interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you enough of the basics that you don't look like a total tourist when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  :15 — my alarm that tells me to get a snack from Red Door goes off. I decide ... looks like as a junior studying physics! 11:15 — I ignore my alarm. 11 ... , I promised myself that I’d attend all my lectures to avoid a repeat of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect either a P - “Pass” (!) or a DN - D, but not recorded or an FN - F

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  integrals for a little bit, maybe where they came from and gives some ... scholarships–but don’t ever let that keep you from taking risks. I myself have a ... ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015