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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the ... designated time for you to explore MIT to its fullest, to test the boundaries ... 're going to gain a better and better understanding of how to prepare for your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  orientation (the week before classes start for freshmen). FAP involves spending ... you should all sign up for) and the rest of the time participating in ... the camera to "night vision" for a evening shot, with the characters

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  since has been designated for the James ("Big Jimmy") E. Roberts, Sr ... community. John Jackson was the longtime cook for the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE ... kitchen where John Jackson had cooked for half a century suddenly went out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  rather than reading all the entries at smashbros.com some for the ... 'm done with! Which is both good and bad. For one thing, it means I won ... at a Spanish tapas bar. I for one was shocked to discover that tapas

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  facebook group you all know and love) helps me make signs for the dorm. Go ... dorm will pay for it (or at least subsidize the cost.) My GRT (grad student RA, basically, for those of you unfamiliar with the term) is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , for instance, took a lot of cellular and molecular neurobiology classes ... taking 18.01 (Calculus 1) and, say, 8.01L (Physics 1 at a slow pace, for ... please tell me about the music program? Especially for pianists. I know

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... would be away from home for at least 3 months until Thanksgiving. The ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... the former second-best Goldeneye player in the world if it weren't for a ... 's it. It's rare for any freshman to live in Burton-Conner for more than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... FOR THAT MATTER) ALONE! (Except for Justice Clarence Thomas who claims ... looks to his or her peers for validation or rebuttal. He is overly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  sophomore year in 1935. Luckily for the history of organic chemistry, he was ... for that class. RB was entering his last semester at MIT when he ... for the tests to be rescheduled . Upon his graduation in Spring 1936

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a ... translated into "M.I.T." Then I got a dreidel and geld for Hanukkah and some kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering ... dining halls, it's good for all of them. So if you live in Next and you ... for the house (if you're still confused as to why the FSILG houses care

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... that we admitted. We're proud of you - for being who you are - and proud of ourselves for finding you. Second, it was a celebration of simply

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  do the same for others last year. Within the blogger team, Kano, Anika, and Gloria also mentor for Metropolis! It's a pretty good gig. We're typically responsible for running one open hours session and one equipment

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... woman, especially Mulan of all women, was catastrophic.) For this spring ... 'lightning lane' for specific rides as opposed to the normal ride. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  I did this for my classes last semester, and it was pretty tragic, so ... Course 6 classes instead. Honestly really excited for this class since ... better than Spanish 3 for all those classes, but no! I took a placement

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It ... way there, then stop by a QuickPrint station in the Infinite for paper to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Best from Staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... legally prohibited for decades. As the law stands now, the only reason we may narrowly consider race for individual students in our process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within ... ?" I am! You can see the schedule for the entire MIT Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... execution is not there. I have SO MANY ideas for projects and blogs and things

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025