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• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the ... mentioned a bunch of positive things too, but somehow the reporter forgot to mention those. So I'd just like to get my actual opinion of the ring out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  some more people to arrive. Arrive they did, and soon we had a group of ... reduced to 43 seconds of mayhem We all survived the onslaught, even ... first. You'll get plenty of chances to do all sorts of neat things once

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... and, dare I say, interesting. It was a LOT of material to get through ... cuts off the circulation to your arm. By the end of the day, we all had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good ... character belongs to, and what the goals of those groups are. You may also

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  people refer to it – “The-one-with-the-guns-instead-of-swords” or “The-one ... ’ve got that out of the way, let’s cut to the chase. I'm going to save you ... for my liking, pulling the already-depressing story to bounds of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... with them. i'm on top of my work, and i don't want to kill myself. on ... of the ideas from this post: what if i don’t want to feel better? what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  , of saying this is mine and this is how I want it to look. I couldn ... her to the side of my dresser, overlooking the desk where I worked ... The Last Supper, but never got around to it due to the stress of school

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  there's more to the institute than numbers. The goal of this project is ... culture at MIT. MIT has a lot of students who are creative, self-starting people; cool ideas pop into their heads and off they go to make them into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  grad students to first-years, we are so excited to welcome people of all ... sophomores to bring new life into the team. And of course, if we are ... those looking to get into startups and the entrepreneurial side of product

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT ... district of boston, and I'd only been down to chinatown and the downtown ... The next few weeks are going to be something different. To start, it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  walked back to my suite lounge after another round of classes and a meal at ... Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see, this immediately ties into how I'm going to feed myself for the next

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... great time to bond with teammates (and improve our rowing of course). It

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  ZigZag, working late into the night this week to cut down hours of ... , but a lot of really cool stuff had to be left on the cutting room floor ... A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  ) tried to strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA ... living out its daily life. (Add to this the phenomenon of knowing that you ... , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... . Write introduction to 10.28 advanced technical review for Monday 7. Work 4 ... compositions for Monday 11. Laundry, laundry, laundry 12. Go to New York and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  want me to succeed, because of course your professor wants you to pass your class, of course your advisor wants you to graduate. i'm in an ... of me still cares. not enough to do more, but enough to hope that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men ... around delivering them, to the mortification of the recipient, and the ... lot of things this weekend; "sleep a lot" was not among them). Ode to 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... accurate depictions of how things really were. How wonderful was it to get to ... always appears to be! Do you think the show did a good job of capturing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013