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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  . Today is the first day of the rest of your days So lighten up, squirt II ... , featuring the dome![/caption] III. East Coast - Alex G One of the first things ... , bringing the whole cohort (and a few RFAs) together for a night of singing

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , and filed. The process of receiving your applications takes time. First ... 't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening ... has to be entered into the database and tracking system. Next, things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  , before we know anything of the plot, we are given a spoiler to the whole ... page’s deep voice, of imagining a better world. it was the last musical i ... this show was very different than the first. while of course, it was the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... something else. It is the most formidable piece of literature I have ever

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were ... 't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  out of using one in the first place. I didn't worry about perfect lines ... something along the lines of, "Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)" as ...  from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building ... was told by a now-graduated member of the class of 2020 that a lot of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube ... expensive, it's just that time of the semester. Any MIT student will tell you, drop date is the most aptly placed date in the whole MIT calendar, the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  . Our next stop is Chicago, which, incredibly, concludes the first leg of ... , until it inevitably did. Honestly, this first leg of the trip has been ... Eastern half of the country; South Dakota, which is designated by the Census

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  upper level (for example, the decisions of the first 3 people in level J will influence the decision of the first person in level J-1). More ... 6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the videos, compiled from the great people at MIT TechTV and (of course) You ... occurred Thursday night, after the Student Welcome. Dozens of student groups

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  . Your goal is to make an even coat of WD-40 across the whole board.  WD-40 ... this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  couple of things I want to touch on when answering your question. The first ... or two of Rush and then just stuck with them the whole time, the people ... up as a pencil on the Entries page it was probably red-flagged by half

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  page on "The Match" has displayed the dreaded "coming soon" message for the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of you who sent me gentle reminder emails. :-) The page has finally been

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  decided to blog about all of them. *** Part the First: Riddles As you may ... tracking down each of the contacts listed in Dr. Awkward's "Little Black Book ... it's IAP, the MIT tradition of "work hard, play hard" absolutely still

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  top of the page, there's a high-rise (16 floors total) and a low-rise (4 ... day-to-day life than the culture of the dorm as a whole. MacGregor's i3 ... . The dorm as a whole shares several facilities, such as the laundry room

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006