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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... could rise above the tired old notion of coolness and likeability somehow being the inverse of how much work you do on weekends. Frankly, some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc ... celebrate the release of the new Harry Potter book: One of my favorite

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  've been following the MIT blogs, recall the number of times we wrote that ... fact. The first Harry Potter novel was rejected by 12 different ... to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day and many many more here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  out of Next if you move here in your first year - but that's a story for ... leave the entire contents of their shower onto the part of the floor ... the drain to make you think they'd shaved a small cow. Perhaps worst of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  coloring Levi's hair behind desk. So, when I walked into the dorm, the first ... also did a lot of stuff that's more fun than on-the-job hair dying and ... the recipes I used to keep myself sane over the past month and lots of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  first of two very profound e-mail moments. Out of the blue, I got a ... ." He nodded gently. "The first is...concern with my understanding of the ... through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... that you would do it for free, then you've hit the jackpot. Speaking of ... the rest of the night (morning?). I was, in fact, sitting around not

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  first place.) The Quantenkoffer handles most of this tricky alignment ... all about two things: demonstrating the fundamental properties of ... “classical” (non-quantum) limits. Most of the experiments in 6.2410 use

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ). You can review the list of meetings at http ... enter MIT "undeclared," and, at the conclusion of the freshman year ... Choice of Major website. Sara wrote, "For the next Omnibus: - Is it ok to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  , etc. There's a more detailed breakdown about the Class of 2005 here. As ... good candidate?" Hey Alia, Thanks for your support of the blogs =) As ... . I am very much a supporter of taking chances and increasing the number

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  contribute to the buzz with another year of blogger wrapped! minutes spent ... end of the group...bloggers really do be LISTENING artists listened to ... surprised i was first because i listen to a lot of Discover Weekly...  

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester, and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... doesn't really count. Wednesday marked a year since the death of an MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Wolverine is from CANADA. Okay, first of all, who ... aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time. Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  discovery (assisted of course by the double major you'll finish in three years ... of you, it breaks my heart and I believe also breaks the heart of the ... , the dirtiest secret is that all of us are ourselves quite flawed, and if

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  : ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert ... here: the gila monster, its mottled orange and black skin warning of ... survival as living things in the desert only can. Let the tattoo remind me of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has befallen us today. The favorite dining spot of hundreds of students on campus ... the entirety of the MIT campus. Indeed, what does the Stud have left to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join a fraternity/sorority?

  principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office ... MIT community. The purpose of the FSILG Office is to enhance the out-of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  The first substantial snowfall was yesterday, December 9. Things about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9 ... it's half-hidden under a thin layer of it. Stupid: when rain falls on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  the impossible, with the help of numerous people including Erin K. '16 ... restart the making of) a women of the east side calendar, a calendar that dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  of your first blog, the other blogs may be easier than you think.  4 ... solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has ... wrote maybe like 10% of the blog and everything else was from my lovely

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025