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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  accessible and become quite useful when you want to avoid various above ... , when you're hard at work putting off a problem set, you realize that you ... along MIT's basement paths and provide your friendly lurkers (i.e., me

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  , “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more ... Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her ... masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that ... wandered from the library to the hill, where people used to watch Shakespeare

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  to your family, you are welcome to wait until you learn if you've been ... Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  inquires, "How's your wife/husband?" The other responds, "Relative to what ... (all years encouraged to attend!) If you are a sophomore, come meet your ... from how to get an interview to how to succeed once you're there. Learn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  equivalents to estimate your eligibility. Eligibility will be assessed by the ... year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds ... non-traditional pathways.  Unfortunately, we are very limited to how
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  proceed: You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Early ... .) You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Regular Action ... matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  , was not true. To make matters worse, during the reception afterwards in ... announced to the crowd that the score was 2-0 in the second inning. That part ... driving back to my hotel, listening to the game on the radio, and they kept

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get ... if you're going to do all this stuff on the street you also have to ... Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  make myself fall asleep. When I came to Cambridge, I made it a couple ... semester—I didn't have too much late work to make up for and I finished ... has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... contains itself, which would have caused mild distress to Bertrand Russell. 3 ... already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  (which is descended from Latin), you're down to simply "año," and you need ... awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... , mmmk?), you're steeling yourself to leave all your cameras and ... you something that you can take and apply to your work. My experiences

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  to your bathroom, just within your own house? Our water systems in the ... complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  fiction. It’s kinda lame! But c’est la vie. I want to learn how to Make ... .007? Leaving space in your schedule to pursue personal projects, such as through ... .096 (architectural ironwork), 4.140 (How to Make (Almost) Anything), a Junot Diaz

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  mostly a tall tower; to access lots of people you have to make the effort to go between floors - and this makes a dorm famous for introverts ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  SITTING NEXT TO YOUR DOG After sitting and actually listening to her for ... the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one ... not use any notes. <!--Jess and I are --!> I have been trying to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  didn't make it a bad semester, just less bloggable. To touch on some of ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... things I've done to explain why I've been away from this platform. To be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  needed help from someone. Anyone. I reached out to God. “God, please make ... pushing the boundaries. If that gets you going, you’re applying to the right ... snug. Out the window, giant snowflakes fell to the barren ground outside

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011