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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  ; nobody makes anything that does the same thing that Parafilm does, and it ... 3 to 4 times its original length before breaking. That is what ... the people living in my suite, we were using it to seal off cell

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this ... . I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  't visited MIT campus, is the very long (but not infinite) corridor that runs through the heart of campus. Think of it as the spine of MIT's body. There's even a Wikipedia article about it! It's how most MIT students, in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... actually No. 6) and New House. It's the tall one that looks like a hospital because that aesthetic was chic in 1970 when MacG was built. It consists of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  , actually the MIT Marching Band got it, but they'll let me borrow it as long ... Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the ... last year with Mitra, which she blogged and it was really weird and a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably true that the workload is somewhat lower than it is during the cycle, but ... was recently named the most innovative app of the year. It's basically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  ?) asked, "How does MIT weigh SAT IIs vs. SAT I?" From a technical ... that it would be a place where my interests in politics and government ... riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and I filled it out by hand and mailed it with a stamp. I remember this because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  . At some point, it's worth sitting down and actually calculating how ... months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... transcripts, and most people had little to worry about no matter how unprepared

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  only home to this little venture, but this year it branched out to ... knew it, Yuki and I were at the end of the Red Line and were greeted by ... : This is when it started to get really exciting, especially when we saw

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  .04 was how useful it can be to have good people to work with. 4. 5 ... belief that things will get done, no matter how impossible it seemed in the ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  Hello dear reader! It’s been a long time since I last posted here. I ... growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... better way to realize how huge the river is than trying to paddle down it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  near-universal surprise a little amusing. They’d ask how I’d done it, and ... not sure how that went, but it was definitely fun. So yeah, the book ... head, and it’s rhythmic enough for me that I don’t care so much about how

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  ’t disappear after a week or even two-week long break. It generally takes months ... expected to feel refreshed, ready for a round three. But it’s not happening. I wouldn’t quite call it mental exhaustion. That’s already happened

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  don’t panic. While it is important to submit your application on time ... item you are checking on and the approximate date that it was received by MIT, and we'll check to see if it's been included in your application.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of how Git works! The Java itself was pretty fast-paced, which makes sense

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times ... it before. Mix the two together and you just get a really excitable and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  relief and triumph, like when you find your phone in the washer and it ... new life. The whole time I waited for some sign. This is it, it was going to say, I made it. Sometimes while walking through campus I notice

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  Saturday nights, no matter how much I don't wanna. It's gotten easier to ... . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I learned a lot about MIT history and trivia.) I've said it before and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006