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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center. The Student Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students) to borrow ... artwork from MIT's collection. Artists represented in the collection include

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... more enough to convince me that MIT really was different. Given that our ... following the status quo, I was amazed to find that MIT was continually and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  question! First up is Fangfei, who went to the Long Island Party: MIT has ... my list of college applications. MIT eventually came back to being my top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mechE/ECE/ChemE/BioE etc), AFTER four years? I really like that MIT has gotten the admissions ... graduation. Luckily, the situation at MIT is much better -- I spent a few hours

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... -down version of what alumni receive. I, along with 100,000+ other MIT grads

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  Very frequently, we are asked about the humanities and arts at MIT. I ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... of MIT's programs. Like I said, I was concerned about this myself

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first-year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out ... videos were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, and mailed to adMITs

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  : MIT had a subculture that was unabashedly nerdy, something I closely ... one night I was at MIT. This is relevant because today is both CPW, MIT ... one of the reasons I chose MIT. I'm celebrating by wearing a Homestuck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... MIT up to 11! AeroAstro is going to have some daytime stargazing to safely look at the Sun, weather permitting. You can also hang out with MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  want to experience MIT through the creative expressions of bloggers. That ... anticipated) Why you're coming to MIT Short Answer (250 words or less ... submitted to chris [dot] peterson [at] mit [dot] edu by August 2nd. Good

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes ... give a preview of my four years at MIT in the artistic form of my ... my time at MIT.  Someday maybe I'll make a t-shirt quilt or something

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close. Every day, I discover something new about MIT; I’m so amazed by everything ... working with MIT’s Edgerton Center, which supports teams such as the Solar

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is ... at MIT, Mitra '07 was a member of her class's RingComm. It's all kind ... premiering the final product of 10 months of work-- the best Brass Rat MIT has

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  are for. I have to say, it's going fast. When I applied to MIT and got in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to MIT and graduated, ergo, genius. By this standard, in two years I need

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  Ring Delivery. First, some back story. MIT students all get their class ... main identifying feature of an MIT student. If you're wandering around and you see somebody with a brass rat on then you know they went to MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  When you first visit MIT you may think that it's ugly. Butt ugly ... quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... , MIT is like "I WANT WEIRD STUFF, GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!" Of course

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  Last night, I attended a concert by the MIT/Wellesley Toons, one of MIT's a cappella groups. Towwards the end of the concert, Lee-Kai '07 ... freshman imitated Ashlee Simpson '0never Sarah '06, who is an MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you ... the cancer research information from the last post, MIT continues the ... but still affecting every one of us, MIT recently hosted a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  pancake known as the Latke. Two teams of MIT experts will present their ... these esteemed MIT professors: Hamentashen Team: Alan Guth (Physics ... in Lobby 10. Event sponsored by MIT Hillel and supported by MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  room, MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC) shows movies every weekend for ... "recognize, govern, and represent" MIT's 375+ student groups. Here, Jen '07 ... freshman advisee, Sha-har '09, selling baked goods to support the MIT Mock

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005