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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  ). Whatever it is, I’m here for you! As time goes on, I’ll share more of my ... . After what seemed like forever, I arrived on the MIT campus, duly ... bear vitamins, discovered the necessary evil of laundry, watched the sun

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  then lit on fire. the burn time of the prop varies depending on the size ... ’s also the crazy talented people who spin a lot of props and are good at all of them, but it all depends on how much time you spend practicing

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting ... 's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to ... schools also on the list. Many of them may well known overseas, but most of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my ... have been around, both old and new.) Really, I think a lot of this ties ... New York City for the rest of my life and live out my days...doing what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  nothing. We sped through documentation and thought up of new things on the ... they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I ... involvement in many different clubs. I also met a lot of new students from other

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  of Massachusetts it occured to me. While we're all focusing on Math and ... So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the ... 't is because they might think it's outside of the scope of an admissions

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before ... through a lottery. It was in the "Plant Room," a room on the sixth floor of ... [/caption] The most challenging parts of eating this, for me, was finding a way to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  [annotation note="1.45 km"]0.9 miles[/annotation]apart, so on the way I had plenty of ... warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on ... because it is on the west half of the fourth floor of Next."]wing of Next

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to ... After 8 years of making nut rolls, we're pretty good--only one of them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops ... overhead involved in managing all of my daily tasks. I am on the verge of ... technical classes—I am genuinely excited by all of them, in different ways

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  don’t know why the kidnapping on the news stuck with me the way it did ... a whirlwind of publicity. The launch took place on the nineteenth of ... fast, seemed sort of normal at the time. I write with every chance I get

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  anniversary, and all sorts of cool installations appeared on campus. Jenny ... my own to the collection: Thousands of people showed up on campus for MIT-150's Open House and FAST (Festival of Art, Science, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  Class started today and before we know it, a lot of us on campus will ... really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on time, etc.) The fast-paced nature of MIT makes "big changes" an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main Street in Cambridge (right across the way from the new Welcome Center), a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Chrysler on the performance characteristics of acceleration, braking, and ... (Aero/Astro), and 15 (Management) students. On top of the satisfaction of ... downforce, it is theoretically possible for the car to stay on the ceiling of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  Needle is one of five, and together they play music based on how the people ... . Meanwhile, by the waters of Lake Union, there's a park built on the skeleton ... practicing the traditional, hard-hitting, fast-paced Seattle art of hardcourt

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  fog, of New York City lights. Now that future that I've dreamed of is ... ."]compromising.[/annotation] When I think of the future now, I see cushy New York apartments in the ... attending a Netflix premiere red carpet in the heart of LA. Or sitting on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from ... interviewed Brandon about his experience on King of the Nerds. How did you get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013