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• 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 / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  ride away from Los Angeles.  Caltech, which is only a short drive away ... ? There are chains on the one I took a few weeks ago, and the one from 2006 ... to a lot of people from the dorm he has lived in the past two summers

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  as well. In the concert I head Christian music, a song from the movie ... outside.And here's a picture from outside. Apparently it was just steam from ... Coast when you know you'll be living there. As my mom drove me from

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• 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 / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  ="Anytime anyone from Hawaii visits the mainland, a good portion of their suitcase ... ’s,[/annotation] I was equally excited for a visit, so off we went! I’ll spare you from ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  called Futurity Island: essentially, a very very tall honeycomb stack of ... that the pipes (a "symbol of the Anthropocene") are drawing our attention ... ". Funnily enough, just a few hundred meters away, a renovation was being

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  August, a committee of senior bloggers, recent bloggers, and a few staff ... ,46005,46006,46016,45983,46056" caption="the baby bloggers" /] From left to right: Ankita D. ’23 of New Hampshire, an autodidact dancer (and dancing autodidact), proud author of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  felt like the dunce. I got rejected from a club or two or three, sometimes more than once. I felt like a quitter when I left things I loved to ... ’s and sweats became the new fashion. I’ve done research as a freshmen, a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2012, blogger Chris M. led the winning Pink Team and took a leave from ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  in the courtyard, which temporarily becomes a sprawling playground of 2 ... tail end of a hurricane last year unscathed, but it was much weaker.) For the record, the current weather is gorgeous. This year, it's all a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  doing. Sam '07 wrote a nice entry about this experience here. This year Burton-Conner has been fairly lucky. As a dorm we're only had about 5 fire alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of ... . Ooooh. But the magic wears off after a couple weeks, to be honest, and soon "free food" isn't a good enough reason to walk across campus for a 2

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from this summer: "Devin (another Spectrum '07) and I have been reading A LOT about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  . This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my umbrella on a train in Switzerland last weekend. It was really a great umbrella--it had a big button that you could press to open it, fit perfectly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  Now that CPW is over, things are a little less hectic around the ... from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments ... ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• 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 / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  everything happened. Sophia will discuss this from a puzzle team perspective ... was now a grad student, so we had to start from scratch to find someone ... we had to take a break from discussing the main event to focus on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  than present a disjointed patchwork of events from here and there, I’ll just take a deep breath and start from the beginning, when summer was ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  ; Coming from New York, I had always been used to having a great music scene ... . Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don ... musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  from behind the car! A chase on foot ensued, but the officers eventually ... As you may have gathered from these blogs and/or any time you may have spent here, MIT has a lot of completely amazing people. One of these

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014