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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get ... most likely, you are absolutely qualified to be here. Can I look at your ... with your app in committee, and I can't recreate or try to determine the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow at any rate. EA admits: after today's build, you'll be able to upload ... vacation outlining a lot of changes I'd like to make to MyMIT to make it a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... 've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of ... dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  else to do it right that second. It took about a month for it to be ... to Blue Hills twice, once for a 5-mile, relatively-flat loop, and once ... .5 miles and 4000ft elevation change). The next weekend, I drove up to New

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... , because it's just so sad and generally emotionally taxing to think about ... comparison to the spring. And incredibly real, to the point where I'm just so

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most forms of exercise and used to go on walks with our mom frequently, changing those walks to speed-walks was a fairly simple transition. Most of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  The four questions I'm going to address: 1) "It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... have time to pursue other things as well as research? 3) "Do you know if

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  "), we admitted 1715 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  airport, awaiting the plane that would take us to Minneapolis en route to Waverly, Iowa, home to Wartburg College and the NCAA Division III Cross ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... work, and we listened as the students stood up to receive their

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... happened the moment when I got off the limousine bus from the airport to go to the landlord's office, and it happened even worse when I got off the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... , since I seem to always be falling behind in my classes and getting royally owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright, Subpoenas, and You." I laughed. Of course they'd have to remind MIT students about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  What was I looking forward to most when I arrived on campus for ... HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... . What could MIT give me that could top those three? I went to the second

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... crazy, fun, and/or ridiculous things I've been up to this past week. To

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... -analysis - what is important to you?: You may have done one before, or avoided it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006