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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  epithet. Q. (related to previous) Do you spend all your time studying? A ... be a little too easy? The major you write down on your application might help the admissions committee understand why you're applying to MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  to use mine as long as you wash them and put them away when you're done ... Bohemian Rhapsody or one of the other two songs that I know how to play on ... be able to check your missed calls, SMS, e-mail, AIM, facebook messages

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... . Unfortunately, this semester also turned out to be rather less exciting for me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  on days like this bright Sunday afternoon, when I get time to sit and ... brushless motor. I’ve finally learned how to properly breathe in Yoga. I ... ’ve gone to office hours in my best pair of pajamas. I’ve turned 30 minute

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  exploration. Many on hall felt free and ready to mingle, and went out every week ... . On bad days, I have to go out to buy a salad (or eat human food that ... even have a new mountain on campus that people climb with a fervor of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the ... with other peoples' Brass Rats. ("Wait, Alice, can I try on your ring? I ... semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  Christian school, where she learned how to code (she was the only girl on the ... tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place ... coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 ... with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  on the waitlist to 739 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... waitlist. Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students ... aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  . whether that be having answers to your questions or redirecting you to other ... , email. there are resources and people for your help and you just need to ... me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... admitted. I've responded to each email with a slightly different version of the same answer, because it's the only answer I have to offer. And here

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  (on the MIT 5.0 scale) and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on ... , said he got a phone call around 5:30 a.m. Several Swedish men were on the ... 's journey to the Nobel Prize began long ago. Born in Washington, DC, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a ... 's anywhere between three to eight of us there at a time. We then work on those ... have a specific question, and you're particularly motivated and want to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... Engineers" on kazoo on the way down. The guy coming down from the fifth floor ... school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  Stop doing your homework, don’t worry about papers, don’t pay your bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there’s no point. This is goodbye, this is my last post. I know what you’re

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on ... bind, I've been known to identify myself "Boston", sometimes, "New Haven ... on an observing trip to Yosemite. They were building a low cost 30

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  if you are driving. I have been late to school on approximately 1 ... . Really ponder your experience. What does sneezing mean to you? Thank you ... I would like to start off by thanking you all for deciding to read

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  you can punt your 7.03 p-set all day to code a wiki for Burton 1, and ... sort of gotten used to it now, but on the first day everyone was like ... only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  , the problem isn't really with our flux capacitor (aren't you up on your ... everything in the allotted spaces in the application. To answer your question ... your name, MIT ID, and date of birth on it. Not the same few colleges

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004