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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  they doing at MIT – a science and engineering school? Well firstly, MIT ... will also be no rehearsal on Wednesday, February 19. There will be a ... excited to hear this. Two years ago, Fred had also promised a “special

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  do. But the summer is a totally different beast. I've compiled some ... close, and we were advised to leave... Maybe we were a little dumb to do ... semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  I had a WEEK to do, only had 5 problems. This was going to be a piece ... complaining and caffeine sales on a Thursday night, psets do a pretty good job ... a telling laugh my first introduction to psets, and realized that I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  wouldn’t understand.” “Well, just take a deeeeeep breath and do it! I hope ... my brother. Doing laundry, computing a triple integral, playing the ... shoots me a peace sign, telling me again to “chillax” and do things “one at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  show what they do and what they think, the space they create in a scene ... and sit in a big circle on the stage, underneath the red curtains we ... be a new direction, branching out from fantasy fiction. Speaking in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... dining is not like that bad and I had a 60 meal plan last semester"]compulsory meal plan friends,[/annotation] you’ll have to wait. I ate a LOT of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  assignment quickly become something I really r e a l l y REALLY enjoyed doing ... become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... than others. If there is any such life experience that’s had a lasting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half-baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  to prove to yourself. Don't do it. If you want to run a marathon ... bandit and posted a mile-by-mile account in this blog entry. It was pretty ... on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do ... rec and a humanities/language teacher rec. Do they have to be a teacher ... do this - we don't have a preference

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  the checks to do later. Well I just got back from a meeting with the ... for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a ... —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  it like a real American would do (Cheez-Its are even better, but you ... DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  fun! Today in 10.37: Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design, we had a pop quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few ... on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  the country and leave you stranded in a city you do not know in a state ... the rooftops of Greece before moving into a quaint apartment with seven ... distance and the time and the everything else placed such a strain on us, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... semesters, and are doing that this semester (more on this in the next blog ... mailing list about a really cool IAP internship opportunity offered in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  (speaking from personal experience), but you should at least do a gut check to ... to do things that remind you that you are, in fact, human. Take a ... Sometimes I feel like an alien because [annotation note="a fact that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  overbooked, but this is entirely of my own doing. I have a ton of blog posts ... Memorial building (duh) and it's a full radio station! I love music so so so ... MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a modest ... -eyed and reminded us that what we do is more than a job: it is a privilege ... . Though they all do different things — linguistics and lacrosse, cartography

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a modest ... -eyed and reminded us that what we do is more than a job: it is a privilege ... is another record high: about a 2% increase from last year, with both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022