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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently ... that time. It didn’t help that I never had Wi-Fi at my house and had to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  .042, or in regular-speak: "Mathematics for Computer Science". It. Is. SUPER. Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved ... 't stellar at it anymore, probably because I didn't study enough, and mostly

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  you the short and long version of this post, and you can choose! It ... microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus ... . Also, every now and then, somebody will whizz by on a scooter. It's a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep ... life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless ... , many corporations and universities were exploring how they could profit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you ... the mid-1900s. Its members are sometimes found in the depths of the ... for sure that it gives off that quirky MIT charm. “Did you shrink

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  , it’s hard to estimate how long you can bike for when you’ve never quite ... my own leisure. I love public transport and seeing how its designed in ... Intro [Gosha] It all started with a[annotation note="dormspam refers

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  the next few years. It was a fun talk, and it's exciting how I ... realizing how hard it is to write live while only using the top ten hundred ... happen. Like how if you throw a ball against a wall, it will always jump

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to ... first, I wasn't buying into it. I've always considered myself a very

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  admissions? At MIT it's dependent on how many freshmen don't go onto sophomore ... people I see around me. _____ It all brings back some pretty awesome ... info sessions. Not just MIT, but Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, etc etc. It

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

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  , and the toughness of the times does not discriminate in its destruction ... notes, laughed about it, and felt a lot better after mutually admitting that things did NOT go as planned. It was really good! It brought us

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  Now that the semester has started, it's an opportune time to procrastinate and let you know how my summer turned out. Did most of my diet consist of Doritos? Will the effects of eating so many Doritos have a long

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  is, and it reminded me how grateful I am to live in a community where ... -MIT friend and told him how festive campus felt with the prefrosh around. “It’s ... I’d fare as a long-term host, but for now, I love it. The morning was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  it's got a long way to go. Next House Senator Hans Anderson, in his May ... entry, but never got around to it. I do have these photos, though. Me ... force behind it, that I meant to come out in Tuesday's edition. It's about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  college spring break is everything I wanted it to be and more, which ... largest group I've ever traveled with. it was an incredible time, and even ... 'm glad our last spring break was as good as it was. the most common spots

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  , de poésie, de vertu, à votre guise. How is it that I get to live every ... and choose to walk it through day after day? how is that I get to ... , probably as a separate post because of how much attention it deserves] I don

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  , as chef [annotation note="It’s embarrassing how much I go around being ... Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a ... safety. But how can anyone feel truly safe and secure without proper

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  paper, how they storyboard, stories of what it’s like to be a queer artist ... (most important bullet point IMO). You go here and it becomes abundantly ... 't even a joke it's the MathCounts Plank Tournament in the Next House

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  it's easy to let our dear old friend imposter syndrome kick in ... for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at ... spring I took a chance with five classes, and while I made it through it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  i had an awesome long weekend, where i went sailing with a friend and ... now. i am doing better now, right? and at the time it was fine, but the next day it's meh, and then now it's bad again. wow! okay depression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  AM-6PM days begin with a long but beautiful commute through the ... excited to wake up and make my way to work. The routine has it's own kind of charm to it. In addition to experiencing what it's like to be a "real

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019