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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  love. Right now, it's 11:54AM. I happened to get out of class early today ... student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully that wasn't surprising to hear). No matter which school you attend, most

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Mystery Hunt Puzzle A Taste of Things to Come...

  

  , you decide to return to your 14.01, for it is due in 11 hours. Luckily ... It is 2:45 AM. You have just finished your 5.111 pset. The handwritten solutions took you 10 pages, and you're very fed up with drawing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted From The Waitlist? If you were admitted from the waitlist, you should now be able to see the…

  

  If you were admitted from the waitlist, you should now be able to see the Admitted Students Portlet in your MyMIT account. Go sign the MIT '10 guestbook!

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  application of course, or what you want to do with your life, and so forth - but ... feeling stressed out right now. You can use the comments below to blow off some steam with your fellow applicants, on two conditions: 1) don't talk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  the half-formed ideas, and usually, by the time I return to them, they ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I ... this much. This week, to my academic detriment, I'm proof that energy

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... improvement immediately." One of the last gifts to Col Wallen was presented by ... there? Make sure you show him your full respect, he's the top Senior NCO

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  carbonara. I was hungry and didn’t want to walk somewhere alone to get food ... that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn ... ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  . Now, fashion shows are amazing things if you're a photographer looking to become a better photographer, so I have a bunch of pictures for you guys! Also make sure to check out all the designers, because they're all

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  ’t very hard - there’s just a checklist of requirements your music has to ... , so this doesn’t have to be a particularly difficult project. but if you’re like me and want your recording to actually sound good or have a lot of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  courage to go up and talk to people. They didn’t come over to the booths by ... me. But I’ll get to that in just a bit. In Closing, A Few Things From ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The ... waitlist, the committee has chosen to admit 35, to keep 64 on the waitlist, and to not admit the remaining 530. Unfortunately, the committee was not

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  mathematical models and quantitative data, and i'm looking forward to getting ... coursework this semester, as represented by some notes from each class: 16 ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to Wikipedia, "An article from The Onion ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of ... to D√Љsseldorf this weekend, I forget why, but the thing that we were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  are getting involved). In my time with the team, I've learned so much ... started in 1989 as the MIT 10K Competition by Richard Durling ... brought MIT's varied schools together to identify and support innovative

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  ! Originally, I was banking on getting to take the glassblowing class over IAP ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  face stuck on my screen. 10) But time to post this entry and get back to ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for ... . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action ... students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred in EA

  

  we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. We will have ... the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012