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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  music played by and for members of the science fiction fandom ... were fans of filk music, I attended Boskone, an annual science fiction ... meetings have to do with science fiction, however. "Word of God" by Catherine

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Today marks the beginning of the glorious month known as IAP, which ... , MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  applying to graduate school, and I want a lot of independence. I believe at ... : A Life in Science Movies Taste of Cherry just wow, maybe one of my ... This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions available online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  : 50 states and 59 countries The record number of applications means ... Class of 2014. We have put our heart and soul, and our best judgment, into ... who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Carnival, The Inner Game of Tennis, the Spencer booksAdvice about applying to ... Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this ... ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate ... deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  : Vincent Anioke. Year 2 Undergrad. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year ... -food tornado of Orientation and the pre-psets era. A year since every building

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  ? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class ... were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  "Globalization" (University of California Press, 2004), Professor Jenkins writes ... my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts ... Studies professor Henry Jenkins for reasons why the popularity of Rain has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ... , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  're an MIT student, and that there are people outside of MIT who ... : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don't really know how to do that. MIT has multiple science departments, so you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science ... political science class. But, if you think about my sudden realization that I ... could do some of those things MIT kids do, it seems like so much fun. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  Yesterday was the first day of my senior spring, which is also the last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of milestone that keeps appearing, with an increasing sense of urgency. The last

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  science, and mathematics majors united by a love of cocoa - and close to 500 ... Institute of Technology. Except this was not a materials science class. It was ... -hour lecture on the science of chocolate with pots of melted chocolate chips as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  never have to apply any of the knowledge gleaned from my 6 ... Campus unless there’s a definitive offer of free stuff, so I normally ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said no. half a year ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said ... and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... talking to strangers. i also ate lots of granola bars.   i spent a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016