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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  important, and that you may think that these things are of little importance ... 'd worked very hard like many of you, and wanted to continue my education at a ... grey area all of senior year not knowing what they wanted. And one last

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  asked with proportionate frequency, and on this night that question was ... Requirements, or GIRs. The GIRs consist of 17 classes, 9 in math, science, and ... /magnetism a class in each of chemistry and biology a Lab class (usually in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going ... line, it's a step function. And sometimes all you can do is just hang on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  ripped out the carbon record of my experimental results and dashed out of ... scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we ... working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... which room, which bed, which pillow, and so on... until you've decided ... make you want to live with Mitra and me? One of our favorite floor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  an important part of the social and extracurricular fabric of the MIT ... Massachusetts” communities and families. The women of Sigma Lambda Upsilon ... , Incorporated was founded on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY by

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  " and Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017."  Note: Part 1 of this ... good. I look back on my fall classes and sometimes shudder at how little ... are 2,000 possible classes, and although I would love to take all of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  about it here and here) and has made appearances on the fingers of Tony ... , it was time for me and Ann L. ‘26, two of the artists on RingComm, to ... being on the Class of 2026 Ring Committee! Ring Committee, also known as

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... round of reflections, advice and good ol witty content. Can't get rid of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Rat” emerged in 1929 to reflect the prominent beaver on the bezel of the ... on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... tasked with designing their class’ Brass Rat and organizing all of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  like art (of any kind) is omnipresent and more as if it’s a side ... There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... my own arms on the daily. My first kindergarten show-and-tell was a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  to visit MIT, danger signs you see posted on doors, LEGOs, and tons of ... .0, where anybody can put anything on the Internet and everybody is equal ... any other college, did and does this. MIT, however, decided that it didn

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , and achievement of these students. They are all superstars in one way or another, and when arranged together they constitute the constellation of the Class of 2016, which is, to me, just about as awe-inspiring as any other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  stocked up on everything when I had extra time over IAP. By the end of the ... crunchies: as you can see on the package, these are little three-packs of not ... 've gotten bored of them and so the second box remains unopened :( This is only

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online… ...please read this entry!

  

  may not work on decisions.mit.edu. Will there be any indication of my ... the office on the weekend that decisions are released, so to prevent any ... .mit.edu and click on the "lost password" link. What if I don't have a My

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  to any student on campus and ask for help, and there’s a good chance ... , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of playlists. You know, vibes and all that. A year ago we expanded on the idea

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  hide and a place to seek from a list of 20 locations on MIT's campus ... involved "wits, skill, and the teensiest amount of luck," to quote the ... luck than any wit or skill – and I can show this using the data collected

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  a long hard day of having fun, prefrosh came and relaxed, enjoying ... prefrosh about anything and everything. On Saturday night, I stayed up with ... in one hand and a juicy piece of steak in the other. Or maybe your type

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  north of MIT, and here's why: 1. I Kind Of Had To The morning of retreat ... that someone starts off by holding a ball of yarn. And they began to ... something about themselves or their lives. And so it goes on, until everyone

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  you write on it and try to erase, it leaves smears or shadows of what ... both of these problems, put some isopropyl alcohol on a paper towel, and ... down on couches. Here’s a selection of whiteboards and blackboards from

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021