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• Blog / How to MIT

  [Guest Post] How to get paid to be funny by Abby S. '26

  

  everyone to take a little positivity with them in the shape of a potato. At ... starts with a now MIT alum who introduced me to the wonders of the De ... considered the most incredible event ever to happen at MIT—a giveaway of 1000

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 31, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... trouble finding it. This morning, I woke up really early to a bright New ... to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... schools, I could apply to a range of places (in terms of selectivity). By

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  've been quickly ushered in To a world that I confess I do not know But I ... a very specific snapshot to my MIT experience, and my life in general ... 't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  detail in future blogs (like for MUN I'm going to do a big post that ... 't function anymore and cassettes were getting hard to find), a cassette of '60s ... ) --- So when I signed on to be a blogger, I made a small promise to myself

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  . My specific role in the project is to work with my postdoc to find ... you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a ... . 5. Try new things Don't be afraid to break from routine once in a ... year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time ... we agreed to be in a room together, doing or seeing a show. Those

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the ... now that i'm living in mountain view i needed to find another square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  always, eventually, find a way to plant a seed, and watch it blossom. In ... bite into a lemon to game the feed. There's no algorithmic turn in his ... . I find this so incredibly soothing, in a world increasingly designed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  knees. (Hint: to find me in any picture of the squad, scan the picture for ... MIT and I'm pretty sure you don't want to live in a Baker dodectuple. ;) ... than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... " compared to what you might find at a big liberal arts institution, but that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... opposed to taking a gap year, or enrolling somewhere else). We always plan ... -year students to request a gap year up until this past Monday. When those results

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  only that; we're allowed to keep cats. I love living in a dorm with pets ... , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  get a cannoli And if you get a cannoli, you must find a nearby park to ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... an email to a writing professor as to why you want to take their ... something related to course scheduling. In many of these instances, had I not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  social circle since finding a rando you're compatible with and willing to ... experience and zero clue how to set boundaries and communicate in a healthy way ... Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... Malkovich, still trying to win their first Hunt), and my team, "Lost in Space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably ... 've also been on OpenCourseWare from time to time in an attempt to learn a ... centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011