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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash ... , there is no carefully marked course, there are no professional drivers ... Mongol rally is a charity event raising money for some fantastic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  eerie, as I've never seen that before. But it's good to know that MIT people DO sleep! One of the best parts of selection is the massive amount

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  The Tech published an article today that contains some significant factual errors. In particular this statement: "Although MIT limits the ... students who submit regular applications." This is completely wrong. First of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  resolved. MIT is observing the New Year's Day holiday today (1/2) since the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some eminent CS guy was on its way. Strengthening my plan was the fact that MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  marathon including Gattaca and Aliens in 6-120 Orientation is by far one

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen ... comments, one entry: 162 ("Admitted!", March 14, 2005) As this entry is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... MIT in the comments section of their posts. I'm disappointed that I didn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common ... decision about what letters of support to send for review is left up to the
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  puzzlehunt? The MIT Mystery Hunt is a puzzlehunt, the biggest and grandest of ... This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... some puzzles, which will be marked. This paragraph is not a puzzle. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  at MIT. It’s not as if all of my friends are doing something, because ... Without a sense of purpose I’ve spent all this time For no reason MIT has an ... . He gave some helpful advice, the most memorable of which is to aim to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  this is a post by my good friend aidan chambers '23 who is a physics major at mit! this past semester he took 8.13, junior lab! ///// Junior Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  , rice is great. I'm a Filipino, so I love rice. Second, rice cookers are ... rice cooker. This is the rice cooker I have. There is only one switch ... is not expensive. It does not take a lot of space. And it cooks such a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  don't even know where to begin. I guess the beginning is best- I got here Saturday afternoon and was met at the airport by Mónica, who is the ... but I loved it, and it's in a super cool area- Puerta del Sol is kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  school was Columbia University (sorry, MIT) because it was in the Big Apple ... everything that was yet to come. This is where my life begins, I thought. I didn't end up applying to Columbia, as I was admitted to MIT early action

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  myself at programming memes on codehub. My room is dimly lit with my ... real anymore. Case in point: at this very moment, snow is falling from ... ’s officially spring. But then again, time is no longer an actual concept. I sleep

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an ... between the kerning of those letters, everything is hiding.) I ... like two hours after waking up Participated in the MIT Mystery Hunt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... , just utterly [annotation note="Maybe that's why our dream is to ... is afraid of the potential danger that might come from following this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  since coming to MIT, we mostly stopped cooking/baking because we no longer ... already! Its SO good omg. The dough is flaky and buttery, but not in a gross ... 't enjoy the flavor/smell/anything of butter). The filling is sweet, but not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019