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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It ... phrases like "an a cappella group."  Or "many a cappella groups." (if you're ... 've missed (please direct all complaints to Chris Peterson.  thanks) And what

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Matt McGann ‘00 Name: Matt McGann; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Hampton Bays, NY

  

  you speak the language, let's try to have a (very basic) conversation ... idealism & commitment to the mission of helping the world Favorite things ... character: Nekobasu? Advice about applying to college/MIT: be open and honest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  myself up at the bright and early time of 10am to peel some apples and ... bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being ... . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  to the wall of my office. I have regulars at office hours whose ... , I sadly don’t have the bandwidth to work with all of them, and hope ... Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology–it just took some time.  Birds have always

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  . My mom saw them when I FaceTimed her and forgot to cover my ears. She ... reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to ... junior year and it's exactly due to the above quote. A lot of my time at ... "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  I am notorious for showing up at the right place at the wrong time. For instance, two weeks ago, I opened the door to room 3-343 expecting to attend 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II) office hours, but instead I found

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  of holes that I think I'd have horrible nightmares if I had to live there. But I don't have to live there. And even if I would have drawn it in the housing lottery, REX would have given me the chance to change my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  —who knows if I’ll also have to critique a speaker's paper in front of them ... attention to your melting ice cream during that kind of insider's scoop ... were told that we need to get comfortable with having more questions than

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  's always good to know that if this admissions thing doesn't work out I have a ... well, I'll get back in Boston on Saturday morning, just in time to catch ... vacation. But I always enjoy my time on the left coast. Thanks for having me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on ... , semesterly dues every month, the possibility of having to live in the house ... the decisions people have to make and weigh when joining a sorority

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  . Friends wandered in at odd times; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to share a hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many ... time in my life (since preschool, anyway) that I have spent being a non

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  to the new coordinates aware of the slowing of time due to the ripples ... and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with ... .] consciousness at the scale of gravity, if neurons could tune to the fine geometric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for ... with the time of the inauguration, the Institute will allow employees to ... big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  quite nice when MIT rounds your GPA to one decimal place. In addition to ... -term freshman to nth-year grad students) in August on one or more pieces of your ... , this can turn out to be a great deal for you if you're committed to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is ... , every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I ... . At the same time, I care about what’s happening back at home. Just a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Before I say what I have to say about video, remember: Blogger applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I have something to read next week in addition to furiously refreshing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the ... 'd even started the lab early this semester, even gone to office hours. it ... 'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  , that finiteness enables me to spend my time more wisely and fully. I ... their class ring to celebrate being halfway through their journeys. The ... separately but not together. No one warned me how chaotic timing would be

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023