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• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  world’s perception of what I know as a good town.     What is ... is still surrounded by farms: two blocks from our street, suburbia ... after the rain, and there is no smell to the air but that rain. State

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  black-and-white creature that I tried to convince my roommate, who is also ... face, and expressed, "That is ugly." She then picked it up and switched ... choice. At MIT, I have found my people—those who share my interests and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  Magazine, MIT's fashion and design publication. Since then, little has changed, but a lot has happened. Kidist is still the editorial director, and ... . It is definitely my favorite spread that I've done for Infinite so far

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  gym four times a week I started going to the gym when I came to MIT and ... how realistic this is, but I really want to start emphasizing healthy study habits and academics now that PNR is ending and I'll be on actual

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  On September 24, MIT admissions blogging and His Holiness the Dalai ... when the population is spiraling (I guess a more mathematically accurate gerund is "being exponentiated") out of control. I was hoping for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  ’d recommend looking back at your revision history. Not only is it a cringey ... ’m showing y’all was written for MIT’s, “Describe the world you come from” prompt. This was actually the last essay that I wrote for MIT’s application

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  article about MIT. I was wrong. An excerpt: David Wallace, an MIT mechanical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  with my rural Wyoming roots through my work at MIT. As someone who has ... road tripping through small-town America is learning about the culture ... is beyond what they had when they first walked through the doors, and

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... this summer; I'm interning in Cape Town through MISTI, which is both ... graduating seniors, the summer is our last chance to vibe before we start our

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  Christians and high GDPs. The fact that I didn't get a present this year is ... “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” is much more metrically flexible than ... Vicinity.” Furthermore, I'll concede that the Santa function is complex and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  Engineering Museum, which is a strange destination for like 7 MIT students who ... the wall. As somebody said during Amazing Race 6, the Berlin Wall is ... architecture because the old architecture has bullet holes in it." This is not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  mit x caltech rivals to lovers another comic shitpost

  

  i made this in a day and sacrificed a pset youre welcome

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college ... ). [annotation note = "The 'k' is a joke, albeit not a funny one. I was inspired by ... ."]Physicks[/annotation] How to actually use polar vectors! Basically this is the same thing as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  drawing properly using a trackpad. Anyways, art is very very critical to blogs. My writing is far from a literary masterpiece, and I like pretty ... in business. a disconnect of sorts? Anika the blogger is kind of a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  growing as a person at mit: that problem you had no clue how to do suddenly is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but ... moments where you have to make tradeoffs at mit. that show you always watch

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  sinuses.   Friday marked my first full month of classes at MIT. Back ... campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these ... ’know? everyone else is just built different. when everyone else in my group know

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  The following is a guest entry by Patrick L. '17 Just before 9 pm ... had just made. But this is Simmons, so they knew that I was dead serious ... almost 6 weeks. I saw one of the first friends I made when I got to MIT, a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  ), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This is the edge of the Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur (now lowered to a ... measure. In response to this announcement, MIT officially closed at 3pm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  took home a few lessons from the competition. Predominant is the fact ... Dog, and mission score is divided by weight, USC finished with in first ... .87. And so we packed up Corn Dog and came home to MIT. We're going to be

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014