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  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... 1896 MIT yearbook, Technique. To be perfectly fair, women were not on ... , a list of women graduates, a dedication to MIT "college girls", and a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  to extinction. The story revolves around a bizarre group of neighbours ... : If you had to pick your top five sci-fi movies for a marathon, what ... knowing, I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO GRAD SCHOOL. I heard from this school on

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me ... , with the tools I need to take on anything. Would I have felt the same

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  at East Campus working on a 5.111 (chemistry) pset with a friend. I ... . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... 'm too disoriented to figure out when that was), I dreamt about a certain

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  ?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it ... HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early birdIt's ten o'clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never tellHow do you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  introduction to chemistry for, say, a chemical engineering major, usually take 5 ... want to. In the Friday's 3.091 lecture, Professor Sadoway delivered a ... % student discount to good use on. We didn't end up buying anything, but I did

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  /Neflix/Switch games) area. It's probably a bad idea to attend classes on a monitor that ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... involved soldering a bunch of components to a [annotation note

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  day here, I was more nervous than a CEO about to tell his staff that he ... I am being kicked from the nest without being able to fly. I sit on ... amazing coffee machine that does everything from hot chocolate to a damn

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  There was another hack on campus this morning! This time, it would appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring ... student groups. I'm happy to report that -- arguably unlike regular zoos

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  to pick half a peck of apples, a hayride, a bottle of cold apple cider ... MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  sore and threw my neck out of whack trying to do this (as the one on the ... ), and a book for 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology)... also material from the ... before I graduate... basically this means I have a lot to do in a very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... amongst bloggers that HASSes are underrated. It’s a great change of pace to have your homework every week to be like, “write a poem! read about how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food ... is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this ... though that is not what Dom is short for. i like to call him a dirty little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to ... feel like I used to be happy -- and then Covid neatly excised a year and ... . I once said that to a [annotation note="my urop lab is aggressively

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  -ten... like a list..."]top-ten[/annotation] personality traits; so, to best ... ’m not sure that I would want to pursue pure physics research as a career ... I want to do… Foreign languages. Learning languages is a big hobby

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... stress i felt last year, it would be a lot of stress. it’d be bordering on ... people have to say instead: Into the Unknown here comes a thought As

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said, "When we heard the best minds were on the case, we expected MIT, not the ... , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  includes an opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has ... your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the ... to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the ... : (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for ... enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  , and a wireless mouse that used a wired mouse that connected to a computer that sent info to a 3D printer that had a wired mouse taped to its ... in the kitchen next to us, and offered us a piece of pasta to bread

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026