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• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e-mail I was receiving came from Mitra. The remaining 5 were actually all ... , really. Really. How many e-mails does Mitra send me in a typical day? Let

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  too excited, the whole process takes about a month, so we're still right ... scenes to change things around a bunch - some portlets will be retired ... heading over there as soon as I finish this post. A parent sent me a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you ... disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I have compiled a ... all that are feeling a bit nervous. Hopefully, I’ve addressed most

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South ... ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  form, you can get a PDF from the tracking system. If you had an ... Here are some updates from the Admissions Office... Applications: It ... your MyMIT application tracking. MyMIT Application Tracking This is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  fever. You have an excuse if you're like Brandon '11, who's from Colorado ... watching 230-lb guys (who can also throw a ball at 99 mph) Irish step dancing in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  from kenya." If you haven't enrolled in a bachelor's degree program, and ... , recommendations and etc. Where is the line that seperates the accepted from the ... major in a field that is not innately techical, such as Comparative Media

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  soup because it sounds easier, but since it is a Mafia potluck, I guess ... night, so I guess it was a jorb well done. A pox on Jeremy and Javier for ... from U2 Marvin Minsky Tod Machover Mary Farbood Submissions January 9

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  was a bittersweet moment; I was elated that I’d made it through not just ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a ... about my class projects here. A major contributor to my enjoyment was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on ... caught on fire and flipped over a couple of times but we didn't have any ... that either we'd found a wormhole and ended up on the other side of the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  Tuesday I had a bad day. I want to talk about what bad days look like right now, because what I consider a bad day has changed a lot over ... particle is at that exact temperature; instead, as a whole it's that specific

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  a few weeks ago i asked my friend what kinds of people i should date ... that a glass wall in my head shattered, because up until then i hadn ... was ever mine. for example, a rather common one is i will only say

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  no longer have my protein shakes and favorite notes from applicants ... welcoming. I've only been in here a few minutes, but already I know I could ... much beloved former Communications Director Ben Jones in 2004, was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  week has been pretty good. Well, I graduated from MIT. I was the most ... Groceria, which has really awesome bruschetta but a terribly annoying noise ... summer. And even if we had to run from actual storms later that evening, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  wanted me to take care of her horses for a while. How do you go from ... home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... a urop,[annotation note="lab assistant, aka office hours staff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  ="you might be asking how that's different from saying it's a ramen place that ... -mart, central. there are many choices for ramen here. unfortunately, going with a conservative, simple choice is usually better. the central ramen (shoyu) is a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... ’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a ... directions.  I still remember a quiz I had about plotting points, where I labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... : That's good. CJ: But I've also been thinking about a lot of questions ... after I graduate too. I mean, I can do a master's, or if I'm given a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022