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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join a fraternity/sorority?

  -of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that living-learning communities provide. The office works to promote a cohesive
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  fencing are granted pirate status with a tangible certificate. Blogger Abby ... they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  one priority over all else: living on a coast. I'm sorry all states from ... while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note = "I write this while looking at the Charles River"]b) VERY close to a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  original story, so I decided to write a post with both stories and hold off ... happened that eclipsed both stories. At this point, a post with all three ... . - Tuesday, February 11 Yesterday, I woke up at 8, poured myself a bowl of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in ... application. There really is no hidden message other than: "I smashed a bunch of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this picture Lisa P. '21 was too busy with 18.03 (?) to pose Jamie A. '21, on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is navigating around a variety of limitations (algorithm runtime, computer memory ... workaround. As a simple example, if I gave you a very long list of numbers (2

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  Three days of Manhattan ended on Monday afternoon beneath a dripping ... waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... still, a slathering of MSG. We've skillfully missed two buses already. We

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those ... there was a problem with this question. I didn’t have any hobbies. That was kind of sad to think about for a while. Really, Allison? You have no

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... that famous.) The process of becoming a blogger starts, of course, with ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  looks like as a junior studying physics! 11:15 — I ignore my alarm. 11 ... , I promised myself that I’d attend all my lectures to avoid a repeat of ... some friends after dinner. 12:00 — I grab a sandwich and a large black

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  note: i wrote this as a project for #BlogstonCommons, which was a mini-outing-blog-challenge that i did with a few other bloggers where we just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . Besides, it gives me a lot of insight into my personal data: when I fall ... me whether I was a morning person or a night owl in high school, I ... 't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard ... tagged as “home” on Google Maps, but also a place that truly felt like one ... brings them peace, objects that capture a memory. one of the greater fears

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  ... finally! ------------------------ Shikhar wrote: "I am a bit confused regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... application? Is it okay if I send this as a reply to question 14?" Yes, #14

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about ... its own sake and also for a deeper understanding of the present and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda ... semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off ... time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020