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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I ... made my first real visit to the Edgerton Center. The atmosphere is lively ... with Ed, one of the instructors, a transfer student was getting advice on

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... tour of Columbus Circle a jaunt into the Time-Warner Center (where we ran ... ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  no more than 30% of our class during early action. We feel that the ... classes, because of an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students ... While this is a much smaller percentage of the class admitted early than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  Introducing the world's first-ever* joint MIT admissions blog post ... becoming an MIT admissions blogger: you must be scared of the dark. Bold ... of there like a shot. Being adventurous and exploring the outskirts of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  and mechanical engineer. Most of my 6-3 friends have already taken the ... (idk the number). I am attacking my degree with a breadth-first search instead of a depth-first search….plus, I am not even certain what I want my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  had the added bonus of being a great excuse to procrastinate studying ... the sacrifice. By some stroke of luck, I found a large cookie platter at ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  out to vote for him, the first time voting for many of them. He asked me ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  unicorns, dragons, and fairies exist. After the first three weeks, the honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  , meaning I’ve finished the first two years of medical school (in the Harvard ... guy by the name of Matt McGann visited my poster at the Intel Science ... offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  treacherous stream in rustic fashion. This is the best picture, so it goes first ... nearby mountainside, a patch of particularly dense foliage has assumed the ... evidence of that. Time to go back down. Hiking is the only time that I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  of the dining halls are closed because so many people are away from MIT ...  recently got published online. the first is this research snippet on race in ... myself and two of the grad students working in civic. we'd gotten together

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... the end of the semester. All three groups had their end-of-semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first off, I think one of the biggest reasons why I had such an awesome time ... because we feed off of one another's energy and just make sometimes the most

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a ... fulfill this requirement by the end of your sophomore year. (Mitra note ... schedule to ensure completion of this General Institute Requirement. The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts ... without stopping to look around. Now the memories of these hallways have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  We excited prefrosh also received the results of the HASS-D lottery. I ... will count.... And speaking of AP scores...those are also posted in the ... , I'll leave it out of this entry.) The last piece of information in my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo were empty.  The cats were begging for attention for the first time in ... seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor ... of the neatest peer groups in the world. So many of my fondest memories ... fraternity. Going greek has been one of the best decisions of my life. And

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat ... suite/floor/hall, or will they return to their rooms only at the end of ... understand how the physical space of a dorm impacts one's social life. This is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022