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• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  , set to go out in a couple weeks. Melodie wrote, "Hey again, I know this ... The sixth in a series... With less than a week until the May 1st ... talked to at CPW was interested in this field. I just want to be sure that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to ... mailing I want to be 100% certain before I say "in the mail!"). I promise to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  ’t matter now.  I spent a good portion of time trying to find the perfect ... my writing at Harvard, and in a few friendships at MIT. I find house ... infinite; and dedication, choosing to stop and catch up for a few minutes in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once ... activities were made available by each hall to aid in that purpose. A few ... , along the Charles River in a place called Cambridge, a bright

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  finding appropriate roles for architecture in society. It is a place where ... amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... , which I would use as a mold to hammer my piece into shape. However, there ... isn't need for a fix. I opted to only use the front piece, going for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor ... skateboard? A scooter?  What are cool places to see in Boston and Cambridge ... from being a big fish in a small pond to a small fish in a big pond

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My ... participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I used to be in the Logs (back in our undergrad days). These are, of course, just a sampling of the ... -before" craziness today, I thought I'd take a little break to relax and write a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  inside of a normal balloon, and then use a metal straw to suck the air out ... allowed to use the ants living in East Campus. The worms looked really cool ... bowls by cutting them in half using a hot knife and sealing the bowls back

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  involved I was in a story, the more my heart and mind seemed to tie ... , a toxic charged cloud that seems to hold everyone’s joints in stasis ... shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  the Cessnas I was used to. A stick instead of a yoke, and my steering ... active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... figured a simulator is a good place to do it.  Until I saw a shiny, shiny

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  Sciences). I wanted to talk a bit about why I like poetry. I feel like in a ... a different kind of rigor here to make things stand together in an (i ... again in all directions to find resonance     and that harmony

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  exams Use this as a time to experiment with different study techniques ... grades in classes and decide what I would need to NR a class. The ... .01 exam equation sheet to try and convince myself to study, but using a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  used to attend table-turning sessions where people would gather around a ... Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... from way back in February, which are back with a vengeance (although

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  functional furniture, cat food, used clothing and computers straight to the ... weird freshmen Two queen size beds And a partridge in a pear tree ... up three freshmen, or a partridge in a pear tree. However, we did

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about ... consuming some content lately that has brought us joy, so we decided to make a ... useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... took a big step back to 1923 (when Hubble discovered that there are in ... a group of students and professors to read a play in its entirety. At

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  all-nighter over a HASS paper, decide to major in Mechanical Engineering ... to department open-houses, and declare a major in Physics. Putting the ... ). Dear Internet, I am not in Course 2 or 6. Also, I like you a lot. Thanks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Living to Create And why I am the things I make.

  

  putting them together in a way that I love, and then giving them to the ... now, anytime I find myself editing something or sketching the idea for a ... something that will always be a constant in my life. So starting this summer

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2026