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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... pieces of sound. I actually had no previous experience with listening to ... while blindfolded. But learning how to listen to a piece was only half of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... reasons I ended up coming to MIT over some other schools. My junior year of ... -term freshman to nth-year grad students) in August on one or more pieces of your

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

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  went on during IAP." noun -- the location of one's UROP "I'm on my way to ... DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill ... leave it out at room temperature without fear of food poisioning. This new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... my feet to quickly realize that I don't know much of anything, really ... 'm especially proud of or interesting classes to laud around. I have no research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the ... Drawing: An assortment of beavers I was originally going to fill the entire ... 've read in the past year alone so it's hard to decide, but some of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims ... audience. But most of the time, he stuck to the topic, which thoroughly ... 'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk about the game: When: 5:30 pm this Friday (4/21) Where: Dining room of

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with ... anyone to come out of that situation with purely good feelings. I don

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to five hours to do anything I please. The lack of social distractions make ... around when I do, according to data collected by the Office of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  to get back to reading, and hope you all have a great last month of ... First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have ... Many students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we couldn't accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have ... Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have ... Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have ... Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  to be waitlisted. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have ... Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  School of the Museum of Fine Arts) appealed to me when I applied here, and ... layering of your favorite passages. It doesn't have to make total sense and ... : these are also words to describe the body of a woman (very different from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... , personally, and to the leadership I have shown in the realm of proper beards ... physically ill after I asked him to take a closer look. Like the end of Raiders

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody How grateful I was then to be part of the ... always been there to support me. My friends, my family, and members of all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things ... long to post this blog. After weeks of excruciating waiting we finally got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  closest thing I had to an older brother. As I exited the elevator of my ... prepare for a different kind of reunion. I used to mention Aiden a lot in ... his mouth to which I said "it's okay, it's okay" because it was okay. Of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022