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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in on-campus residence halls. You can read more about housing on our page Housing at MIT. Just ... you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm ... . Every class day (which is Mondays and Wednesdays- that's today), we read a ... writing out my thoughts on the poem, I'm able to make connections that I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  implement anything we can implement on computers. With those setup, we can now ... potentially go on forever if the input is not in the language, and then you can't every guess what's going on, because if you stop the machine it might have

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  others' voices and reflect on how their experiences can help fill in areas ... Hello 2024s. I'm about to go on another blogging hiatus, but I wanted ... community and want to help make your transition as positive as it can possibly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I ... about MIT, our selection process and how we are thinking about changes on ... discussions that one could also explore.  If you go all that way back to episode

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  help you. We began with the map looking something like this: I'm on ... less than a week ago everybody on campus was sent an e-mail like this ... Committee on Student Life is proud to present to you a new initiative

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  So I was wandering around facebook today and I discovered this new ... and I have been working on it for hours upon hours. Basically that means we worked hard on problem one for 15 minutes, and then spent hours and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure ... Zoom University. On top of setting stuff up in my apartment (unpacking ... super helpful through the whole process, though, and it (somehow) worked

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  to imagine how many lives are playing out on the ground. There are so ... 's aunt in Montana (long story; just roll with it). She lives in Hot Springs ... , dressed them up, transformed her living room into a stage + bar + music, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Mystery Hunt is starting, today, January 15th, at 12 PM EDT. MIT Mystery ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli ... ."]kickoff stream will go live at 11:40 AM,[/annotation] and, when the time comes, you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  Today, I'm in northern Virginia, assisting with the selection for the ... you and your lives. Because I do not work for the CEE or for MITE2S, I ... decisions are made final and mailed out on Friday!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  , it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help ... assume a challenging leadership role early on, and an opportunity to serve ... from MIT on a Friday morning in June and received our commissions that

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  like you're living 5/3 of a day every day the week before Thanksgiving ... the week: D-Entry, where I live, hosted its annual pre ... ate it up. I will be having more turkey on Thursday in Plymouth, MA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my new banner. (That, and I've hit a creative roadblock.) I am

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  ?” Well, [annotation note="or now, depending on when you see this"]later today,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on [annotation ... ,[/annotation] so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... this strange semester. So, as I wait for the news, I thought this might be a good time to reflect on what a freshman fall over Zoom has looked

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the ... 17th. Yes, that means that while you’re all on campus not sleeping and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  rooms and a live webcast, and covered by MIT News, the Boston Globe, and ... final project presentations are held annually in before a live audience of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  interesting kid with her own sense of style, just content on living life. And I ... Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and ... to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  , we got a little worried that we had wasted our money on a blow-out. But ... sets. C'est la vie. I'm including some pictures; some of them were taken

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005