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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course ... that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break ... can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... white-out game, titled, “The Greatest Show In College Football.” I used to ... to them in a measured, respectful way, without drawing weird and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  engineering discipline, and you wanted to use a programming language to do some ... staff are allowed to take 1 course per term. Some professors may audit a course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  getting to relax for the first time in a long while, with college ... . This is a one-time-use card for the Moscow metro I bought one day in ... Art. I seem to be in a habit of visiting museums and only going into

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  FOR CHAOS In the week before CPW, I made a list of interesting events to ... too stubborn to ‘waste my time’ eating in a dining hall rather than at an event"]failing to acquire food several times in a row

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying ... from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the ... northeast. Buildings outside this pentagon have a letter in front of their

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can ... was very easy to choose a few and zero in on them, mapping out a clear

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  expressed being grateful to be in a city where music was like air; it was ... institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  dorm you'd prefer living in at the end of REX. Also commonly used as a verb (to FYRE in or out of a dorm)"]FYRE[/annotation] form and was ... revealed the truth behind my audition to a friend in the group, who asked him

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to ... to apply with the research abstract? Is there a competitive edge in ... add it to your application. Jeff H. asked: "I live in Canada. I have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... a construction project in the Infinite Corridor. Formerly the world ... -107) and one women's restroom (3-101). But that's about to change. And in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in ... that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  am just like everyone else. "You also like to be in control a lot of ... my hesitations, breaking off from the path to find me a sturdy walking ... to Mother, Mother a lot. Perhaps TikTok is to blame, snippets of their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  't know if that's the truth. In a previous blog post, I listed out my ... understanding. That click to go off in my head. Needless to say, it didn't. 8 ... difficulty differentiating between when to use vector notation and hat notation

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

  Come in, we’re open

  

  living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... assigned to Adam, but it has all my clothes and books in it. We're using it as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... ’t find it. (That was a long lonely month when I thought I lost it for good ... since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  stuff back to Ohio. I stayed in Ohio for a week and a half, then my ... 's hard to accomplish anything significant in a lab during the summer, and ... of Plymouth several times and going to a water park in New Hampshire

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  being able to travel to Japan and stay with a host family in the summer of ... 's about a boy named Gon who wants to follow in his father's footsteps of ... shit, and also to find said father since he's a piece of trash who yeeted

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020