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• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis ... house. Is it important to this story that I tell you my neighbor Ed used

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to ... ) and together we ran across the street, to pick up another junior named ... Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends, applications to graduate schools and fellowships. My stress falls mainly under ... . I wasn't going to blog tonight, actually; earlier this week, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am ... 's gaping maw ready to swallow me whole again. In other words... BRING IT ON ... tsk to the person who sent me pictures that were 20 MB EACH. dang son

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... . However, our awesome Next House wing reps Gabe '11 and Sam '09 forced me to ... with each other. The dorm gives them an annual budget to spend at their

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  reason that they keep changing to Power Rangers: Zeo or Power Rangers ... season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... and get right down to business. What's happened since you last heard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon ... 'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that was held 7:30 that night. I finished around 9:15, got back to my room ... somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... to do, and that's something that can only come with time. now, i have more things in my emotional toolbox to pull from when i'm faced with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever ... differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to ... 12 weeks to create a prototype and present it to a live audience of ... lucky with how it worked out for me. We had just 12 weeks to go from

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... Mrs. Patterson had alluded to all week while we sat on the floor of her kindergarten classroom (the class next door even came over to join us, it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  regarding the plot. I highly encourage you to play the game if you haven’t, it ... My Head [annotation note="Right now I plan to keep finding music to go ... comes to math. To some extent, I’ve learned how to quiet this voice: I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  decided to take 36 units, because we knew that senior fall would be busy ... of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... my first all-nighter talking to amazing people. I remember my host, who ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal ... internet. Things changed when I got to MIT. Instead of being plugged into the wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  gallery of my notes note taking progression

  

  could allocate enough brain resources to keep track of everything. At MIT ... semester. Deadlines seemed to vary more dramatically between classes; for ... time every week, I had to decide when to work on each problem

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  Madrid airport (beautiful delicious architecture) trying to figure out what to do, and eventually we got to our hotel. It was Christmas Eve, and we ... on farmer mode, btw. Not to brag. Turns out everything is closed on

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026