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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  of chlorine to personal containers as people get their water from a ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... . Right now, I have the chance to take D-Lab II. This class focuses less on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... Hampshire quarries near which he loved to climb, this memorial to Sean will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  , and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... cooking as a method to anchor myself to reality, as an attempt to rebuild

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  Chinese music from his phone and get our other friends to almost drag me out ... opportunities for getting to know people, which increases the likelihood of ... effort to spend time with them and help them get through whatever it is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... T being Boston’s subway system, which he used to get from MIT to ... teachers, had tried to reinforce over and over to no avail: that we only get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  improvisation and getting our singing tone to match a sailors, and learned a ton ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and ... students need to take 8 Humanities Classes total, of which, 2 have to be

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  at the time, so i learned a lot - every time i wanted to visit a new ... district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align ... was never cleaned up properly, how the government tried to relocate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped. ... CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to solve mine. This blog is supposed to have a question on it, so I'll make

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  to the lawsuit in question, but that have a stake or insight into the ... Supreme Court cases having to do with affirmative action, most recently ... [/annotation] said in a statement: [This brief asks] the Court to uphold over 40 years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  Institute of Technology (MIT) students gather to receive small chunks of ... of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways ... will analyze primary examples of these photographs and attempt to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms/lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  beginning to get the hang of how to be at MIT, how to make the most of the ... all over again. we will continue to love and care and get our hearts ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  questions and comments at the Early Action webcast. I've enjoyed getting to ... foremost resource on “how to MIT.” Actually get to know us—first impressions ... something to offer and something to learn—it’s how every class year gets built

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... if we are going to be initiated, do we get to know what we're going to ... apply to MIT (and get into a department) Finally, lorelai asked, "i want

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... microphone, you don't have to answer any questions--instead, you get to witness people's confused, surprised expressions. You're the one that gets to watch

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  melting spoon. I didn’t get the opportunity to use it very much. I made one ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... note="because it's like, really close to east campus. temptingly close

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things ... applicants right now who will absolutely get in RA. So to answer your question ... Hi everyone. I'm so exhausted so this is going to be quick, but I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 teams competed to see who could climb up the 18-story Green Building the ... -competition. Antonio wore a Garmin watch, which he used to record his heart rate for all

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019