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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  %) increase in something is already a reason for intervention. We're not really ... up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... biggest difference between the two: the VA is a place with mostly older men

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  In a recent post, I wrote, "Our yield was even higher than we ... (though preliminarily there are a few numbers I'm very excited about...)." This left a few people quite intrigued. For example, Laura commented

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  , granola bars and a box of organic alfalfa sprouts that appeared in no ... schedule of a 24-hour pharmacy worker in Alaska. No wonder: Random Hall ... -dozen others as we soaked in a collective haze of puzzlement: After a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  them in the box, and compact it into a brick shape (this is more ... rolling in soon, this unfortunately means 12 am on a Monday morning... Step ... !🎶 Listen to crab rave on repeat for an hour. Lie in the snow and make a snow

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  is leaving" hustle. "STOP!" yells the TSA officer. Everyone stops in ... Downtown Berkeley, and here I am. I call Mitra who is also in the Berkeley ... admissions process. I will expand on this topic in a later blog entry, but here

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  particle is at that exact temperature; instead, as a whole it's that specific ... there's a constant battle about how everything is going. Minute ... planning. In thermo, something's "free energy" is related to its enthalpy

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... Delivery is a major milestone where sophomores receive their brass rats to ... is sheer and flimsy, I also bought a couple of yards of black cotton

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  because, uh, why not? Shakshuka is great because it functions as both a ... an alternative to pressing the water out of tofu with a heavy object is just sticking it in the freezer and letting it thaw; that releases a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  accepting around 20 students. Obviously with a selection process that rigorous, we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We know this. And it's not a great feeling. What is a great feeling

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  excuse is that I'm tired of uploading my pictures for this blog because it's annoying and blog entries without pictures suck). This, however, is too important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  a good option. Because in life, every hand can be a winner if you play ... I'm still reeling a bit from the last thread, I must admit. Let me ... the power to decide your own worth. Part of resiliency is playing the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... feel like a failure a lot of the time and it takes everything in me not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  captain planet symbol. Why is she wearing . . . ooooooohhhh! She's in AXO, I ... am!" I settled down and waited for the show to start. Since Melis is a ... people in the lounge that I may be a complete lost cause on the internet

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  journal. Being in the public is a vulnerable act. My situations made me ... . Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write ... subsided, at least for a wee bit, and I'm excited to be back. — Is this

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in ... played in 2018. And the reason I did so is because I had a friend. I had ... California. The first time in about a decade itself that it is changing

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... recognize you in the words as written. If so, it's probably a good essay for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  is a perfectly reasonable questions. You should be in touch with the ... EVERYTHING then make a decision?" The first thing I glance at is the ... making a decision. random person, "Hrm, not sure if this is the place to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  conversation is a welcome change of pace, sometimes. four In the evenings after ... scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one ... were three of us, because we were searching for a short-term lease in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... 't know if that's the truth. In a previous blog post, I listed out my ... my favorite lecture halls, 6-120. Being in a traditional lecture style

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  being a nurse. Her village had clean water, unlike many other villages in ... out in the world and meeting people like this little girl is what put me ... . There is not always a freaking app for that. Take water again as an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016