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• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  bunching for the stairs, and made a mad dash for the gates, only to find ... my bag between them. Also, I now have to find away to use all the extra ... sighting in the Susquehanna River and people in Harrisburg went down to check

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  PC are not available for Macs, it's usually not hard to find a ... lots of activities... So it's kind of hard to participate in a math ... large room with no dividing walls like what I used to have in my boarding

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  was a magnanimous act? Intuitively, I find self-deception appalling. To ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... 've also known this friend to be pretty honest with me, and in the past, he

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  independent country, and, in the process, to create a pretty awesome place for ... letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really ... because it pretty much entails every dorm trying to show off its culture in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  sometimes or know how to fold their clothes in a more efficient way. I ... order food in and watch a movie. It might help you feel closer to your ... year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  there in the name). So, I figured I’d use this post to give thanks. I ... exams pile up so high that I don’t find a minute to call home. And those ... backpack and make my way to her apartment. Sometimes we find a new restaurant

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... : Gap years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  having a book signing to promote his latest book "I Hope They Serve Beer In ... I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in ... !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  ’ll email you to let you know. Next, be sure to enroll in a college ... more than a page in length) to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu in mid-to ... stay in contact with us. Drop us a note to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu once

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  , 2014. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You ... stay in contact with us. Drop us a note to mitwl [at] mit [dot] edu ... waitlist have lots of questions, so hopefully you find an answer to yours

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  successfully flown custom motors ranging in size up to a P9100. [caption id ... large scale, I learned how to design a rocket and run simulations in Ras ... , Composites has been doing a lot of research in carbon fiber and I have to say

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping ... thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... you've figured out what you need to do in order to get that amount of ... ... it's usually possible to find people up and around campus at any hour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet ... article was passed around in a Beijing interns email thread, introducing the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in ... setting up in the List Arts Center. It was super inspiring to see a large ... . I find it hard a lot of the time to fight climate doomerism

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... an A is very hard in most classes. C people are not encouraged to drop ... get used to. While I’ve talked a lot about the difference between MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  stuff. Talk. And don't always feel like you need to have a p-set in hand ... , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way ... , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  but finding myself extremely distracted. This all came to a head ... are not a breeze, but not totally impossible; in particular, they are ... impressive to myself and who I am as a person at this particular moment"]a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... require the world to think in much broader terms. And until aliens from some other planet attack us and force us to come together as a global entity to

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... ; ^ a non-metaphorical sprint, from a past weekend in Big Basin.     I used to think that MIT was unnecessarily hard.  Certainly it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015