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• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  get lost looking into the future. I don’t want to live through fall just ... -lined asphalt to Honey Pot Hills Orchards. Laden with sleepy MIT students, the ... plastic bags and enthusiasm. It was like we had found a way to bottle the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  classroom. I will probably never get anywhere close to Joshua Bell's fancy ... the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... watch MIT students perform, I get very emotional (or maybe it was the knee

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  staff to get together and catch up. And before that, I was sleeping off ... crazy. So, if you've been watching your application tracking on the MyMIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’s often very hard to wrap your head intuitively around degree-to ... support for a new circle constant. To get an idea of the scale of this, peek ... ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  money and means to do it, but you're in a box. You have enough affluence ... Being as musically obsessed as I am, it'd be impossible for me not to ... musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... heart. That's what I'm trying to do, at least. You're gonna be great. ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... smile to your face, even amidst all the bad. Here at MIT, we take them all ... was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  awesome. 2. Always bring your student ID with you, because you get half off ... foods is listed in kilojoules in addition to in calories. Hallo again. I ... blog entries might be a bit sparse over the next three months due to an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... MIT. It's an honor and a privilege for us to read your applications ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... privilege for us to read your applications. Thank you. Again ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Victoria’s Secret Update UPDATE!

  

  Ok, quick update to my post immediately below this one. Read that one before this one, otherwise this one won't be nearly as exciting. Ok, so, now when you go to vote for MIT you get this lovely screen: YAY!

  • by Snively '11
  • November 2, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  talking about for days. So I guess this is your sign to go to fancy ... was I allowing myself to get upset that people were exercising democracy ... surreal moments that have happened while I've been here. *** Cut to the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... neither did my DIY dress.  I finally had the chance to dust off my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  appeals to you and why? What attribute of your personality are you most ... spend too much time (over)thinking these questions or your answers to them ... . Instead, we ask our applicants to provide short (100-250 word) answers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  your plans to stay on the waitlist rather than return the postcard ... of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they should arrive very soon! In the meantime, please don't forget to register

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  week, where you can go an get one-on-one instruction with either your TAs ... successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  to get a job at Google,' " Fitzgerald says. It's academic Located ... . Academics has to be your No. 1 goal here. If it's just football, you're going ... . Winston links to. Enjoy! Always Moving Forward by Professor Patrick

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009