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• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  athletics facilities for a while now, so I think this is the perfect time to ... learned for everyone, especially during this tour today – whether you’re a ... run around these fields multiple times a practice. It's also important

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  out of things to talk about and have to cast about for a forced small ... "exercise once a semester" but that's just setting myself up for ... Tube. Or when I have a midterm to study for, but then somehow my laptop

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT have a Financial Aid Calculator?

  We have two calculators. The MyinTuition Quick College Cost Estimator provides a quick estimate based on six questions. For a more in-depth review, the Net Price Calculator will help you learn your eligibility for
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  the geometric style I was going for, I made stencils. I made two, a big ... for a really long time because getting stuff done during the semester is ... knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a ... friend. For the next two years, I continued to be a BME major and swore I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for ... where they will be required to 'make' something for a final project or ... opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... you make it through a hellish week here. That hellish week for me is ... know what's going on and throws a more difficult curriculum at you

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next ... keeps me sane and lively, but there's no substitute for spending a couple ... you do the same for them. Here at MIT, we hold each other up in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... . During covid we would play a full game of monopoly every night for weeks ... dreamed of. But that’s a bad strategy– I would know, it hasn’t worked for me

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  reaching for a calculator. EXAMPLE #1: consider being in a room with a ... formula for the height of the well: . A bit overwhelming, isn ... has a high entropy. In chemistry, the entropy for chemical substances

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  sacrifice academics for athletics, and very rarely the opposite, either. A big ... feeling of having a longgggg day of class, and preparing for a longgggg ... practice for a few hours to play the sport I love. There’s nothing better

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... . I spent the day scanning news sources for updates, any updates, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really far away from home for a bit. One afternoon that summer, while about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I ... find new cool places on campus, even after hanging around here for a very ... me...I had never been on a campus tour...before yesterday, that is. It

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  stadium cheered for the red sox as Enmanuel Valdez hit a single with only ... tickets, but also giving each person 15 dollars for food. For a free hotdog ... Red Sox prices. TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for a jersey. They did have an

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  first pset for 18.01 (Calculus 1), a class that I wasn't having trouble ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while ... pieces though, and that's a really useful skill. For all the whining and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... - instead, check out Chris S.'s awesome entry. The essays are a chance for ... us it’s time to go inside. For a moment, my mind dwells on all the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  , MIT grad Dr. David Berry knows a thing or two about success. Though he ... a fearless innovator with “new and insightful ways to tackle problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025