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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  SingleUse pledge here! (thanks to Lydia for the, uh, blog challenge to "write about ... everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze-dried backpacking meals, ice cream, Shin ramen, and sous-vide’d New York strip streaks

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  [by Mei Zuo '13] "With the Void, full of Powers"              ~Albert Camus Yves Klein sought “to create an atmosphere, a pictorial, climate that is invisible but present.” Predicated by [The Void] I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  and also the Orientation 2005 site. Thanks to Ann's blog for drawing our ... Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will ... about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  years ago. While there are 120 girls in AXO, there is only room for 25 to ... about the new graduate dorm and the plans to turn a current grad dorm ... and new, so thanks to everyone who came! Matt, Shaye '08, and me

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  your questions for the last 9 months as MITAdmin, but I am grateful to ... for years. It sounds like an awesome way to destress after p-sets. There ... Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . And if we're really getting into my secrets, I have a thing for the ... comparison to your applications. Favorite food: Pizza, followed closely by a ... for a reason to admit you. In other words, we don't connect with pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  and too kind to be bound by such fleshly desires, but eventually it is revealed that he, too, is willing to betray his fiancée for a night ... sun as a metaphor for Meursault’s super-ego to criticize the societal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always healed me. Looping together yarn in that simple way, hands guided by forces ... turn to this hobby time and time again when I picked it up at the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  hometown area. There's no need to bike/fly/hitchhike to Boston for your ... , your EC wants to get to know you as a person so he/she can add another ... the MyMIT section on interviews. To get to this page, which has

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... ’re strong enough to get over it, however long it takes.” If you want to talk to us in the comments below, we’re here for you. We ask that you

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  experimental, part-edX class called Creating Digital Learning Materials for Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Admitted Students

  Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2014! We feel like we already know you, but feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates. FYI, the reply form and CPW portlet in My

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  has been reported that applications to MIT for this year have increased ... released next week. The Midyear Report is to be filled out by all MIT ... good time for you to check up on the status of your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank ... 's fair to call it peer pressure. People get interested in the same things ... Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you've been

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  for 6.046. I put it on the top shelf to avoid the oil paint rubbing off everywhere; I wonder if, on some level, I also wanted to shame myself for ... my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  hose and Student Support Services (S3) is available to help you manage ... support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of something going on in your life, you feel too ill to take an exam, you
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker ... to you maybe you are learning through osmosis? 2. Your empty ... follow societal norms.  desktops get more and more comfortable as the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  competitive for another wonderful opportunity: the Davidson Fellows scholarship program. Sponsored by the good folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent ... needed for future research from several years to less than a week. Jamie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007