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• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very PNR-core). But! This Thanksgiving, most of us are on campus, so we ... on some of the classic American Thanksgiving dishes–turkey, mashed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the comments on my post announcing the 12/17 12:17 EA decision release ... and time!   While Pharyngula on CollegeConfidential mused that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  . The morning finals began, specifically on the morning of my 8.01 final ... It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... out of Next if you move here in your first year - but that's a story for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  our wait list their admission decision. Of the more than 400 students on ... room. On behalf of the entire MIT Admissions staff, we wish you all the ... The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  Chris Peterson once said, "rfong is a good photographer, and in order ... ranges from jazz standards: To funky arrangements of other classic songs (here is a subset of the group at Dylan's Emerson recital): To crazy

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened ... is to please be patient as you watch the application tracking system on ... period of time. More updates soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted ... . Last weekend, I made a little more headway on this goal by tackling Item #51: Eat at Mike's Pastry. Mike's Pastry is one of many bakeries and cafes in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  I bought a new mouse on woot.com the other day for $13.37 and I must say, it's very nice, but when my girlfriend came into my room she inquired "Where's your mousepad?" "Well . . I don't have one. . . but look

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  on too many activities This one is a hard one because, of course all ... the class material (6.006, for example) and then, on top of that, would ... on the world out of everything I’ve done so far in my whole life. This

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all seriousness, maybe this post is giving people the wrong impression. The first ... hope this important point isn't lost on you guys. Classes aren

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how ... enough from my dorm that I don't feel the magnetic attraction of my own bed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update A short entry, a quick link, and I become Seth Cohen.

  

  In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me: And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry) A longer update soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  years. *Furrows brow in direction of New Haven* ... number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total number of admits, this year the number of early international admits

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  A great article about MIT Professor Erik Demaine in today's New York ... . Demaine, an assistant professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to five hours to do anything I please. The lack of social distractions make ... a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate ... stories of parents, and ates, and kuyas, of classmates and friends, becoming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  sign to hang on the side of the coop. The structure they built actually ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  your application in advance of the deadline. Now is also a good time to ... so yet. The MyMIT hardware failure did not affect the data of the vast majority of applicants. We have personally contacted the small set of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006