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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  goes on, as we add pieces to the collection each year. Selected students ... Friday are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student ... following May. What a way to decorate your room! Whoever said MIT students don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  students on the waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those people accepted a place on the waitlist. But it just isn't ethical to keep

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• 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.

  

  British government." That got our attention. She went on to say that she ... the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... Choir Thursday night, I destroyed both of my knees running three miles on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  to start cooking on my own, but I began anyways. My first entree was ... So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  Cambridge, on foot or on bike, go to class and cafés, talk to friends and ... early on and once later on. I don't feel like I have enough data to make ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... , you often have to interview at your school and compete for one of your ... interests, your goals, and your strengths - you took time to share those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• FAQ / Testing

  Will MIT accept December testing for Regular Action?

  proficiency test scores for RA applicants through the January test dates. To submit new results, simply click the "Add new test scores" link in the
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  -pset activities range from cartoon viewing to wrestling. We have pieces of “art” on ... on the ceiling from which to hang stuff. And oscilloscopes. Lots and ... ’s not rare to see a freshman and a senior hard at work together. On the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  'm asking you, dear CPW-attending readers, to email me your favorite pictures ... photo of your dog wearing a Jedi costume.) Photos judged to best represent ... you did over the summer and listened to you when you talked about your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  maybe it's okay for them to popcorn. When You Turn On Your Ad Blocker IRL ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  . “Why are you always dating these PhD types? You’re overindexing on ... success, but we certainly weren’t trying to appear on magazine covers or ... say I can’t help but be myself. “You wear your heart on your sleeve

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  latter). I see the drive and ambition we had as students directed to new ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less work on psets, a lot more talking with people, and probably the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  old "Underground Guide to Course 6", they have to draw out your ... struggled or failed? It's not a trick question, it's to show what you're made ... to need it. You're going to test it. Remember this, so that you don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  everyone to focus on this one thing…. I am sad that I have become the way I ... of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to ... a very cute movie on Netflix :)"]To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before ... of you, it might be your first time learning to tell your story, and it

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  to think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you’re in your room ... one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... contrast. if you're alone, but have no one to compare it to, so you're not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  that your past self did, without having to do them again. You can admire ... to be like that now. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re becoming worse ... has to be perfect. Sure, quality beats quantity, but the quality of your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  using the same username and password that you use to log into your My ... to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions ... appreciate it. It's an honor to be entrusted with this part of your lives

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  on average? How much does a character tend to say? What does this say ... on average. I really want to explore why Phoebe's and Joey's have ... I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also ... grow into my answer to problem 2-3a of the new 6.046/18.410 (algorithms ... to see Broken Bells on March 5th, one for me and one for Cory, which I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014