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• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a ... attend as a prefrosh. But this is really fun as an MIT student, too~ I ... CPW Midway for Chinese Students Club, and our Noodle Extravaganza event

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  Worcester to see a Nightwish concert. Taking the T is essential for getting ... New York City, is walking. I daresay most people walk. For example ... that he missed driving terribly. So, not too long ago he bought a used

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  , a wave of hand-horn symbols rose from the crowd. I understood for the ... narrative for a lot of people. This particular event just happened to be more ... strength belied for a moment how drunk he was. But when he walked forward

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting ... ?" "oh, you know," i say. "the usual." every week is a cycle: lectures ... interests. recently i've been watching a lot of buzzfeed unsolved, going back

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock ... remember, every moment, being desperate to come back. I remember a post

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes because apparently my immune system is taking a little vacation right now

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... and pair them with eight beautiful women in a competition for $250 ... -mail discussion list for East Campus residents. He purchased a bright purple tuxedo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  .003) → Rank D This was a tough semester for me, especially because I broke my ... Engineer (2.76) → Rank C Built a prototype of a highway litter cleaner for a ... . D-Lab: Design for Scale (2.279) → Rank C D-Lab! Built a prototype of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  [annotation note="For a year, we lived a 4.5 minute bike ride away from each ... for more than a few weeks at a time. I don’t know if I ever felt like I ... (already very generous for a 23 year old) salary. And in that moment, I found

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short walk from the ... explains an ingenious use of Simpson's Rule for locating specific trains within a block of track. Club member David Lambeth develops some

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  to try: be blindfolded for 24 hours, inspired by a blog post I read. It ... a startup. I had blocked the whole night for hanging out with him ... to think about leaving that behind." He looked at me, waiting for a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  's bad, if i don't program something for a while then that's bad. five ... more than i will on the things i've learned for 6.854. one. there is a ... seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Davie '12's alarm (he's crashing with me for a few nights before moving ... , and read Green Mars for about an hour and a half, pausing every twenty ... I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  about school for a little while.   [caption id="attachment_122005 ... on the Amtrak line we were on so we were in the train car for a solid ... Living in the northeast sadly comes with two caveats: 1. A winter

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  ’d been part of for a long time, that I knew a lot about and that, by senior ... times, like decision day for MIT or a competition for one of my clubs ... work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a ... them: I did jiu jitsu for a minute back in high school. My studio ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would ... say I’m a nerd for caring so much about learning certain topics outside ... for a class or something?” He seemed confused why we wanted to talk

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  schedule Next in my planner you'll find a page for each month of the semester ... In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  . If you are a web designer this book will be your bible for internet ... [By Doug Sanchez '14] After taking 2.97 (Design for People) I changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  contents of the periodic table for a quiz. This basically means that everyone ... !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006