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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  's great!”. One evening however, while I was visiting a friend at Burton ... you to everyone! I got this!” Person looks around at all of us, and ... , can't remember. Person tries luck at guessing my name anyway...) Person

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  Boston and stayed with me for a few months. She's now at college studying ... camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  lungs lately. Circumstances are ripe for a brash inbox reorganization- as ... that MIT is about 50% Asian. 11:30: I met Mace (short for MeiHsin), the ... headed out and looked at the tunnel system (MIT has tunnels that connect

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me ... used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the change has been building for months or years. I knew months ago that my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with ... pretty lights, and we're building a rollercoaster for it, and I'm not a ... feel guilty for not doing enough, and the Aquarium Puzzle Hunt is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was ... delicious as well. There were at least three different types of curry, and ... a staple for the part of China my dad is from. The food was great, but

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all ... to be a build lead for a project, and honestly i didn't contribute much ... appreciation for mit's collective coolness has grown deeper.) i recently beat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... . Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words ... , which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  and plan on going this year. It’s freaking awesome.) I woke up at ... 10-250 for the keynote. The lanyard has The Behemoth logo on it ... the Johnson ice rink so far.    And now, for a montage of games: Tiny

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... saw my name on the list of recipients for a carnation, from the sorority ... Oudenaarden, my 8.03 professor. (Thanks for that, Sam.) On Wednesday, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  location for current MIT students to show off their work. Exhibits are ... Computers for Uganda, an organization based in Seattle, Washington, that ... , medium format workhorse weighing in at about 8 pounds with its 180mm lens

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  thereof are not my friend right now.) And at the start of the first class after a test date, Mr. Antunez would, without fail, stand at the board for ... was known primarily for two things: 1) being an absolute hardass of a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  —our dorm has a certain amount of funding set aside for student painting projects, so we get reimbursed for the supplies we buy. It's a great way ... there, and I for one loved the fact that I could create my own little

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  'm here in Germany, meeting up with tons of MIT interns while staying at ... -roasted for tons of flavor, the bread is some kind of wonderful crispy toasted ... block in Germany, and you will never pay more than three euros for one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  says 42 degrees, raining, and crazy windy. So I was sitting at Burton ... remember for my entire life. Plus, if I can run a marathon in sleet and get a ... going to be working at Mile 23 tomorrow. She showed me her EMT handbook

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  , really cheap (like $2.50) Halloween-themed cruise for older undergraduates ... : 10/28/2006 12:06 PM Hey floor, I need a tight black t-shirt for a ... imagine it happening--he's pretty buff, and she's pretty bad at walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying ... 'd worked very hard like many of you, and wanted to continue my education at a ... where there was a lot to do outside of just being at school. Sample

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  't always have to do it for him 017. Most overused phrase on an instant ... . Laughed for no reason? yes 040. Been caught doing something you weren ... you looked at the clock? 6:30 AM 056. Food and drink you've had? coffee

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom ... pens for bright kids to go four years reveling in how bright they are ... illustrated in such dramatic form, so young, for it to exist. A lot of you have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... for. Chalk art's already a thing that you see a lot on campus (see: MIT ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022