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• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  . Tananya is the current head of MINCE. I started this organization to create ... original intention of this blog was to expose more people to our organization by presenting the goal of MINCE and (attempting to) explain why we care

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. Sometimes when ... of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... ! Welcome aboard! On behalf of our pilot and flight crew, I’d like to thank ... also be some of the most interesting people you come across. Getting to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  who happens to drop by! Think of it as a CPW for adults =p - check out ... singer to come to campus and give a concert), and guess who came! :D (no ... of sucked, other than Sara Bareilles :p) ----- (2) I'll let Shaq

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  jump! Wheeeee The goal of our session was to get our legs over the ... tower of Mitra. Hidden talent #73: Having a thigh that appears to be ... I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  decided to make life interesting for us. Fortunately the primary tech folks are still in Cambridge, but needless to say, trying to coordinate all of ... It's been a nightmare of a weekend. We are all down in NYC for the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my ... ridiculous. Remember to set your clocks back! This blog is actually part of ... ,000 of the floor's money as apple bake chair. Just playin'. Also to be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up ... inheritance to pay for MIT. The goal of these policies, however, are to help the ... : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  classes, the amount of time they have to spend learning content / doing ... access to, because my friends learned in 9th grade some of the content that ... is simply no feasible amount of studying that I could do to catch up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning ... is a painting I created to explore the use of color, light, and shadow

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why it's even more satisfying and exciting to see ARTalk get back up and ... staff from a wide variety of programs on a non-regular basis to keep

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most ... home and am excited to see what the rest of these next four years will

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... (thanks, Mollie!), MIT rose to the top of my list. Even so, I couldn't help ... to express themselves, of course. Although engineering, science and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  , of course, was a fantastic idea that had to be encouraged. And, what ... absurdity of Mamma Mia! ultimately traces its roots to the fundamental ... lot of fun, managed to invent [annotation note="nodders!"]some new

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , left: to the right of my bed is my half-bookshelf, half-closet. the ... , all our beds are lofted. This allowed us to use a ton of more space in ... get into bed, to be honest. The springed bedframe has lots of possible

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  to the ground, and milk it. First team to bring a cup of milk to the ... 's skull was going to get smashed in by a cow hoof) but two of the teams were ... I'm currently in Missoula, Montana: hometown of ze boyfriend. When I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book ... been married to for 9 years, the father of my kids, and I was cleaning ... neighborhood kids. This pack of boys liked to tease the youngest one in the crowd

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  , always willing to lend the proverbial cup of sugar to a neighbor, but ... , apparently. I presented Akash with a loaf of white bread, and he went to work ... to a showing of the new movie!" This is actually what he said. I take

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through ... semester, my lab partner decided to read that blog in front of me, to my mild ... mundane, interesting, and surprising parts of everyday life. So I set off to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  , so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to ... open until 3 PM Sunday, a (very small) subset of my team decided to stick ... . Of course, not everyone is as insane as I am. Plenty of them went to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007