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• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... drive from town to town up and between the hills and see dozens of ...  Shaver’s Creek, one of our favorite places to go walking (bottom).      Here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  excitement and keep music alive at MIT! I hope to see some of you in MITSO next ... Department here at MIT. This was the first time I had ever been exposed to a modern piece, and boy, was it fascinating (and at times, difficult to learn

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  ("White Rabbit" / "Somebody to Love") 1969: Janis Joplin ("Piece of My Heart ... Today is the official beginning of Spring Weekend at MIT. The ... . Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big concert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  know that some of you will be super-excited to learn that Hikaru Utada ... email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and ... 'm sorry to say that I don't have any announcements about a decision date yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done ... teacher may fax a copy to us. If they need another copy of the evaluation ... Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  't have to be deep or profound or whatever. Vibes are important. It's 100% acceptable to choose based on whether people recognize your Homestuck jacket ... one of the reasons I chose MIT. I'm celebrating by wearing a Homestuck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for facilities has finally decided to recognize the Institute's gender balance with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  .  Brown puddles of mystery city juice. Perpetually gridlocked traffic ... many people, so many of you, makes me feel anxious and invisible.  You ... , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter ... a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT YO Early Admits 2014!

  

  Scottsdale, AZ. Have you run out of frames to frame your MIT certificates yet? ;) Then we have a Californian trio of Esmeralda R., Michelle C., and Helen W ... guys holding beaver plushies? :P Thank you all! :D Welcome to MIT and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of ... a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear ... areas of these meetings): 1) inform those great sophomores & juniors about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be ... the largest electoral votes to population ratio of any state. Ever ... "electoral votes" of that state to the winner of the national popular vote

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer ... LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early ... 're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that's about it. This concept of leaves falling off trees? Yeah. Completely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see ... . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... budget master) 2) Mari McQuaid, Assistant Director of Admissions 3) Martha

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of ... who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  wanted to argue with her, but I'm literally writing this blog instead of ... week. Eeps! The catch-all carousel of photos idk where to put ... reference][/caption]In the wise words of the once great Bop-It: "I'm goin' to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  of the screen A: eh give it a race or two A: you'll get used to it B ... work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... A: well i wanted to say, oh shoot, it's another person, act normal B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022