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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  everybody mad at me. If, while reading this, you find yourself a) Upset b ... -mail Matt McGann and complain I urge you instead to just e-mail me at snively [at] mit [dot] edu and we'll discuss content and I'll go ahead and make

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  -mail at MIT lit up that day and it was hard to walk outside without hearing the word “ring” at least once. This is why I blogged it, because it was what was currently happening at MIT, and I like to blog what's going on

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  . Remember, at the end of the day, you're still the one actually writing the ... , here's what you've all been waiting for. Use at your own risk. Your ... committee wants you to be. Admittedly, students at MIT share a lot of common

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  miss Mikey, who has left us to attend grad school at the university down ... correspondence. Here it is: So, mainly at this point I am very excited for MIT, but ... or at least the USAMO or have won some science competition or another

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent ... affiliate, WHP-CBS, was holding auditions at the Harrisburg East Mall, which ... shows that I could make time to watch during my first two years at MIT. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the ... "job" -- yes, a fun one at that, but a job nonetheless. And others don ... ?), and maybe they aren't first or even last in line at the free finals

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... we are at this crazy school on the Charles and what we're not. We are ... braggarts, grade-grubbers, or unearned wealth. You can have a life at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some ... at MIT is assigned a unique identifier. Most commonly, this is a number

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... happy endings, even if you don't end up at your first-choice college. Just ... that actually has four distinct seasons, go look at the leaves sometime

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  number at random, and person #1 gets first pick of the rooms. Once they ... developed at the Media Lab because I'm particularly interested in it!" This ... control their toy. At the first meeting of our advising seminar, we split

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... a higher priority. So, for the first time at MIT, after a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  i remember from looking at data, he at least got pretty close. one ... looking at all the games on that shelf earlier, when i wanted to play a ... the game plus all expansions, but we weren't playing at a high enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  pugh charts comparing all the things I was involved in at MIT and Rocket ... content in this blogpost is based off of notes I found when looking back at ... . MIT Rocket Team: a student run maker team at MIT dedicated to developing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney ... of The Oatmeal).  I got an awesome time at that one, around 1 hour 50 ... . December 31st of 2015 was my last day of work at Triad Speakers in Portland

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  the research enough that I continued working on it (at least for now ... , so when I saw Jebby with a bunch of people on her first day at work, I ... ="attachment_117850" align="alignnone" width="2216"] the usual suspects at lunch

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  looking to learn something new to check it out at ocw.mit.edu! the 18 ... [annotation note= "every MIT student is required to take at least eight HASS ... from this course. The most popular questions are discussed at the end of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite "homegrown ... most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can ... January at MIT can look like—I know I sure did :) Hi, I’m Heidi Z. ‘27, a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  your high school self would’ve expected! After five semesters at MIT ... response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT appeals to you,” I wrote:  Pursuing Course 6.3 and UROPing at the Media Lab

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  . June 5th, Copenhagen 6pm They lost my bags in Amsterdam. The man at ... I passed by smelled amazing. 10 pm, at the bar of my hostel I ... dozens of people snore, cough, sneeze. At 6 am alarms start going off, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022