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• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to about MIT's supposed lack of fun, but also because I used to think the ... social life and (dare I say it on the MITblogs) party scene. If you're done

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression ... people from their land, and hostility to the point of killing, is something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  policies that make me both happy and sad. For every excellent teacher and idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... to?” This semester, I am taking two philosophy classes, though

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  little sad, but mostly, it makes me want to take a couple years off between ... cooking dinner with my boyfriend and he was telling me about his visit to UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  discography whatsoever. When I got to MIT, my music taste evolved to include ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... -finals, when I had absolutely nothing to do, I started reading a lot about this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  , and the nation, to do better. So I wanted to make sure we shared it here ... . If you don't have time to watch the full video, you can [annotation ... to say about the struggle for racial justice in America today, they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  community, feel free to submit your best creative work. For literature:  rune ... It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top-notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  attempting to fall asleep, having heard stories of people doing this at times ... and I rolled out of bed and ran 3 miles and ate breakfast and walked to ... audition because I missed the actual auditions and trudged to the other side

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  and gusty wind, pray your brisk Winter's walk allows a speedy arrival to ... me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking ... looks like it has transitioned to rain =( Last week, I finally busted out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... to discuss freshman grading. The background Hopefully you know about ... class, it gets recorded on your transcript merely as a "P". If you get a D

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  needed most was to shut off the computer and to make time for the “sacred ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... Self. I was engrossed listening to Ms. Turkle as she described the need

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT ... fried potato pancake (can you detect my bias?) What makes this debate unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News ... , allowing the admissions office to connect with users and address their

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... on schedule to mail decisions in mid-march.) MyMIT has been pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  come into this? In order to understand what makes an effective ... , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  , acquiring supplies, making some things, and getting to know each other (by ... just want to say that we will try our absolute best to provide helpful ... ’s probably clear from our avatar, but we are going to be blogging as a duo

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  Snively. A prospective literature major, she eats blueberries, makes pottery, and wants to learn to climb things. She sometimes eats three breakfasts ... to write fanfiction about me and m_quinn, but we hired him anyway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for ... big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community from Chancellor Clay last week: Dear MIT Community, In response to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... Association (or the UA for short, because MIT students love acronyms) aims to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007