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• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or ... components - photos, text, profiles, illustrations - I'd love to hear what you'd keep and what you'd change. I'd also love to know what you feel is

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt in progress

  

  The Hunt is on! I'll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it's over...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle ... have any other blogs they like to read? I'm always looking for more ways to punt*. Only eight more days until Mystery Hunt! I know there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  I'm about to head off for a two week in vacation in Paris, Rennes, and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT's awesome international programs. Current music: A.R. Rahman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In ... hometown is a classist jerk, but more than once have I or a member of my ... . Period. This is just a fact of life which I've known since I was a little

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  I'm taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or anything, but I am incredibly skilled at making glass ponies. [caption id ... fluffy manes/tails. But because I am so cool and talented, I can easily

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 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 ... our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  way. The whole experience was so incredible that I still can’t quite ... seven(!) guest artists and three guest speakers. At the time, I thought it ... coordinating it all. Plus, I was unaware of any connection between MITWE and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  I'm a group chat kind of person -- I really am bad at individual messaging and anything I find vaguely interesting, funny, entertaining, or controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to guess a 5-letter word given information about letter locations, and I have been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4 ... /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... people got and I got the special snowflake one on the right because i liked

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... the plan more depth. As I mentioned, there is an enormous amount of talk ... resident. I have definitely read more open-letters-per-time-unit since the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. '15. She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours ... Quebec. Everyone speaks French. French French French, Kayla and I don

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  If you read my last post, I've had a pretty hard October. However ... importantly, we're all here for each other. Well, I decided that regardless of the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach. I first went with my friend Emily Y. '15 to a Worn Wear gear swap

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  happened next was inspiring.  I've always thought that you can tell a lot ... analyzing and reanalyzing today's attack, I took a walk outside.  I jogged across the Mass Ave bridge, as I often do when I want to clear my thoughts

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  lights. Simply put, we had cabin fever. I'm a California girl who hadn ... snow I've ever seen, and I've still been trying to figure out how to ... though it's blizzarding -- I have the answer for you: fleece lined tights

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  easy steps: ...I can't tell if crush.mit.edu is a self-mocking parody ... latter, let's just say that I knew it would be successful from the ... they are oh my god Speaking of finals, you may remember that I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... offer, although it does mean that people sometimes look at me funny as I'm doing it. As an undergrad I played with a drumming group called Rambax

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  So as I mentioned in a previous post, I'm taking 6.005 (Software Construction) this semester, which if you remember, I described as a "notoriously ... statement. I've spent an average of 6 hours each day (read: ~ 8 pm - 2 am) for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012