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• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  disparity between the amount of money that I was willing to spend on an ... DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  new armies. You will need to place these armies on a territory your team ... 's campus tournament! So have some fun, get closer to your dorm-mates and ... Committee on Student Life is proud to present to you a new initiative

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  on campus, you can learn how to feed film reels into cranky old ... - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... ? Somewhat consoled and way too hyped about getting into MIT to be feeling too

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  . Though your MIT ID Card won't get you free admission, you still might be ... Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  , you’re essentially being paid to do homework or watch movies on your ... not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... before a meet? Save your candy ‘til later. Homecoming on Saturday night

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  meeting up on Saturday mornings in local cafes to chat in Spanish. Getting ... , and you'll get to share your knowledge with others while improving your ... Africa. This semester, I'm making the journey to Harvard to take a class on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  manage to get a spot on an intermediate dance in Dance Troupe and thus ... least once, to join in on the dance line that seemed to move effortlessly ... of years, but to answer the question “how did I start dancing” the only

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  is to continue working on it when your pen has already started moving ... well. Once you start lightening the load, your hardware tries to hang on ... class than it is after getting a full 8 hours of sleep. Your body has

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  that's been going on. that's why i'm going to take this time to blog my ... still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you're ... 'll spare the gory details. Suffice to say, the warm and copious food on the ... years ago I wanted to get into photography. Digital cameras at the time

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  go to the curb on thursday mornings, and pays the bills on time. somebody always finds things to do together on weekends. this is a nice ... , visiting seattle or looking for a couch to crash on for a few nights. we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your ... apply and when you receive your decision? We understand that not knowing the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  of where you are on your spiritual journey, come and pose your hard ... 's just so hard to get through a whole book in a non-native language. It ... at asklaura at mit dot edu. I will reply to your email, but I can make

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Thursday I can be found sprinting across Killian Court to get to poetry on ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  ’m planning on a video blog for next time (try to contain your excitement). Post ... how hilarious you are. And your lecture notes are awesome. And your ... coolest lecture on mitosis I’d ever heard. How does the spindle apparatus

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I ... buy your own. It weighs a lot on your finger, too! On days when I'm not ... they put a ring on it :D" - My friend. (I was going to make the same joke

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they ... doctor uses to test your reflexes.  Over the years we've asked ... best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So ... nuclear weapon is false and misinformed; how Iran's leadership is divided on whether or not to weaponize, though a military strike on Iran would almost

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012