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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  with the process of recruiting new members in the same way I was this ... uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of ... on The Alchemist in 2011.  Origins of DTYD: DTYD started in 1969 when

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  taking 5-6 classes of all-new content, and 2.007 conquered a good quarter ... for something to write, or a new way of seeing one of the stories I ... addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... lot of it. =) This schedule was on the wall near the front entrance of ... fridges in the snack room, we found that one of them wasn't turned on. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... whenever I can, and when lab is closed I work on my other classes. Of course ... everything people handwrite for me: a note on the front page of a novel, For

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... me all the possible ways my life was capable of stretching and ... -making opportunity" kind of way. So, I pushed down my fear and approached the table of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  same dilemma. On MIT’s admissions website, we claim that “MIT is one of ... pamphlets, hand-outs, and websites, all expounding on their respective college ... Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... begin to ask the questions and reflect on our use of technology, if we ... the Featured Speakers panel on Friday of CPW. Her message to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  favorite musicals, and our conductor was one of my good friends, who lives on ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many ... makes the "everything else" of our lives mundane and unimportant, in a way

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  the course of my life and set me on a path to learn more about ... heels of deciding on MIT. One of the dangers of staying in the same place ... India, figured out how to do a stopover on the way for a friend’s recital

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  to a showing of the new movie!" This is actually what he said. I take ... did a super good job. The way they edited pieces together made the whole ... adventure of the week! More on that later!

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  -written of fanfiction I could find on AO3, and even cracking open my old Tumblr ... presentation on a fan experience of mine and I was able to reflect on my time as ... computer science major sitting here on a Wednesday night with half of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016 ... ) way too many games of monopoly with my friends. My friend Nikhil ... , the time you have left at home is precious. Make good use of it! Second

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of ... that I wasn’t good enough anyway, so really there was no way for the ... finish anything up just because that’s the way they are. I didn’t plan on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  of the two dozen folks who went to Peru for the weekend went hiking on Saturday, but I had to rest on account of (a) the fact I was feeling a bit ... each way, at 7am, after only three hours of sleep. (The latter was due to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  direction! We're on the wrong side of the street! Unfortunately it was ... good news We think Jean may have had a rock instead of a pillow ... -frosh happy travels and sent them on their way, making them promise to all come

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... , from this one pizza shop in New York Dr. Langer was particularly fond of ... distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="400"] dig yer own grave on the front page of ... mental pain instead of physical pain. It was free food, so I made my way up ... , chugging milk, and dying of heat in the middle of winter. I started on the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  ask Fodor? Has anybody ever read any of Fodor's stuff?) The way I see ... constituted, at some point, a hell week. But dead week is on a whole new level ... expert, you might be calling shenanigans due to the lack of paint on the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  some new spins. Then we learned inversions on the first day! It was wild ... to get your leg somewhere and now you’re on top of someone; or they did ... new brand of imposter syndrome. I didn’t realize my kicks were landing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022