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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good ... easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... week, so it'll be a rush to pack up, but I can't wait! I think it'll also

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his ... /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  request a transfer to EC? I even trudged across Mass Ave in a torrential ... had to do on a computer but hey! It worked! I'm excited! I can use the ... used to end every entry with "Have a nice day." I also used to say '09er

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  river to — past the giant catapult.    Yes, there was a hack - a hackapult, to be more precise. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery: In an ... was used to fling older hacks back on the Great Dome. The hack

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  intending to stay there. What value is there for me in looking at different ... are interested in FSILGs don't have a hard time understanding why they ... decision will allow you to make a stronger contribution to it. Let me try an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  , in fact, need to eat a lot in order to gain muscle and see results. In ... found a lot of empowerment in it. I eat without a care, I find exercising ... progress in the gym is going to slip away. But I am most definitely in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... of the 1896 Olympics in a column he wrote for MIT's alumni magazine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to get the first half down. We practiced in a courtyard with two giant

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  .1903 - Introduction to Low-Level Programming in C & Assembly. This was a 6 week ... everything for a while. I’ve had to catch up to a LOT of emails and Slack ... for a week and taking two finals on Friday, I somehow needed to pack up

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  most applicants probably won't notice a difference (since they never used ... process trying hard to impress a group of skeptical judges with your ... , working at MITAdmissions is more than a job: it's a commitment to compassion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  things to come from this group in terms of information is the international ... ; on the most recent list, we're third, supplying $8,628,074 in aid to ... 's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  collaborative filtering, a term used to describe a class of recommender systems ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a ... positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  find a company to outsource this to and seek fundraising from somewhere ... In Late August, I flew back to MIT. I wrote a blog about the airplane ... printed, cut, and in a box in the OFY. Now, I just had to package them. Oh

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: EA Deferred

  

  will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. We'll have some additional advice and instructions for Deferred students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  devoted to this dome. Oh, this is a lead-in to the hacking speech. "Harmless ... Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in a hotel in Portland Oregon absolutely surrounded by prefrosh. Why am I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  laundry. 4:00pm – Allan went to take a picture of the statue in front of ... stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able ... drove up to help us clean our room (a dumpster at the time), and to bring

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  the Computer Club.Actually,what I want to know in a very straightforward ... to be self-centered, dim-witted vanity queens in the first place. "A ... provide a link? amrik wrote (in response to my post on the Clark medal), "Is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  a tough time finding the place where we were supposed to park, mostly ... on a rather painful hike in the snow. This camping trip was a little ... hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014