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• 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…

  

  Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... Family UROP fund for undergraduate sustainability research, I might even ... open him. Sadly, there was no room for him in my luggage. 5. Cooking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... this to the MoS staff member responsible for renting the facilities, and ... taking 7.01x first year for premeds if there are other science GIRs to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... my German dorm for this summer, laundry costs about half a euro per machine, but can only be paid for using a special laundry card, which can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... dying to publish their findings quickly to get the credit for the ... work. Later, they tried the other way around, mostly just for the hell of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  newly-formed NAACP bitterly condemned Birth of a Nation for "its racist ... . He claimed that he was not racist. When screened at the White House for ... blockbuster, making $18 million. It was the most profitable film for over two

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and ... :]." Ariadne, I've arranged for you to be contacted this weekend by Nicki '07

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  history. Since there are so many people applying for so few undergrad spots ... for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of ... summer. However, the resume I have is formatted for colleges and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... , although I guess I've called it that sometimes too, for absolute clarity. It ... mentor, through bloodshot eyes, after he showed up five hours late for work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful ... number of rooms and allow the individuals to decide for themselves. I also ... new Bioengineering major, for example, was considering holding a lottery

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  " mold. Basically, West Campus mocks East Campus for being "weird" and East Campus mocks West Campus for being "normal." Good fun all around, and I ... plans for residents of those dorms. In my experience, West Campus students

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... college counselors spend hours crafting a recommendation letter for each ... student who's not the valedictorian is the better match for MIT. Ultimately

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a ... in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into ... hackmit team"] for the entire spring semester. [/annotation] Anyway, spring

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  ="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For ... of Monster with Reese's Puffs every morning for breakfast (can and all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the ... take Belevator, it took over three minutes of creaking and groaning for

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... 'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation ... discount was a ton of AirTags lol']AirTag instead,[/annotation] for more

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  ="attachment_106050" align="aligncenter" width="456"] jumping for joy! we <3 the new ... same time…"]for the soccer team.[/annotation] It was awesome that the ... is our mascot lol"]Engineers.[/annotation] I can’t wait for all the PRs

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  , who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... week last year and organized the “[REDACTED] Family Dinner” for all MIT ... enthusiast, lover of her homeland’s native birds, and always on the lookout for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  that I just don't believe. If you think about it for a few more moments ... in sophomore spring, that for me the meaning of life, in essence, is ... 2: art One thing I'm very grateful to MIT for is that it has really

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  MIT is a 168-acre playground for the world’s brightest undergrads ... chalk murals in Simmons last year, but [annotation note="For unsavory ... from around the dorm. Big thanks to everyone who sent me pictures for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  , a replacement MechE class for 2.00B, Toy Design, which didn't runt his ... definition of any sea song"]Chanties[/annotation] for the last third of class ... blog at some point. Our class has been planning for weeks to do a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024