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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... I certainly learned a lot from Dean Khoury's talk with us. For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... ". But it's summer now, and, after walking a mile to lab, I mostly sit and ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make Your Own Wand" booth and they also had a word scramble. The one that gave

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  Let's start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly ... everything below my waist was just a little bit nippy. But actually, I don ... a Rocky Horror virgin--that is, she'd never seen a live production

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  May 2 postmark deadline, is anyone still making a decision? If so, what ... a couple responses, including from "estelphoenix," who wrote: I have five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading period, culminating with a ceremonious shave on mailing day in March. Only

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  , you should know that at MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... this year. The only thing we ask that you send in is a midyear grade ... if you can still send in music or art or a response or Question 13, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  thought that writing an interactive Buzzfeed-style quiz would be a fun way ... ?? what) A couple days later, I started the data analysis (instead of ... made a bunch of jank formulas to find each question's response

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in everyday life after playing the game for a while. I remember I had trouble ... mind. But now it’s gone and I love tetris!  A movie (“Tetris”) also came

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a ... of my days as a competitive programmer, when the time complexity of an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with, but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person ... a deeper understanding of how the brain produces intelligent behavior ... ever stray away from 6-9. But I also wanted take a class on psychological

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl ... ’t take a lot of pictures.   “I am not pretty. I’ve got a big heart ... around”   “But I finished a journal, and I draw pretty well,  and

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  I have a sourdough starter! His name is[annotation note="a Roman ... 's what I name everything important." 🥺) I realize it's not exactly a novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised ... thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... , shadowing two people give tours, and giving a practice tour of our own. And

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

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... give to each other as a thanks helping them out in a pinch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  wistfulness. It occupies my thoughts as a mere figment of my past; when I think ... evenings I’d spend splayed across my couch with a book, I feel as if I ... of my life.    As a friend so accurately stated, it feels like I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  occurred recently. Namely with my schedule. A few blog posts ago, I said I ... .02 (Physics II) This schedule lasted less than a week. 21M.301 was overenrolled so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it ... ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other Events from clubs/groups that we are part of! Next House Events But first a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018