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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is ... Haus is my home. It is the late nights and early mornings spent painting ... room where the decisions were made, but more often than not, waiting

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  first clue, really. So the Harrisburg East Mall is not even the main mall ... again if you turn them inside out. But the point is: no excuses. So I ... know, even these people did not get into the three-minute-long audition

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a ... that end, I want to make use of the handy "blog reaccs only (beta)" feature at the bottom of the page to gather some audience input about which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  Today is one of my favorite days of the year: the end of daylight savings time. There's nothing like enjoying the only 25 hour day of the year ... hour. But, not everyone is as enthusiastic as I am… apparently

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  about our history and traditions is crucial to sustaining the culture we ... hosting events, but not much came of the discussions, and we were left ... considering how bizzare the event is, but it was still a great success. 30

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline please check MyMIT

  

  Hi all- This is a quick update for our Early Action applicants ... log into MyMIT and confirm your application tracking is complete. We ... ’t panic. We have not yet begun to review partial applications. But we will

  • by Kris Guay
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  , Next House's Country Kitchen is in the basement). Unfortunately, living ... as anyone with serious food limits knows, the supermarket is always a ... Jessie. No, I could not resist the possibility of using parallelism. My AP

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  skin.  I was not one of the Big Three. I was no Korea, China, or Japan ... that while the Filipino people did not have much physically, we had a lot ... lived an entirely different life, sparked not only a want to return to the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  year MIT solicits nominations for Institute awards, one of which is the ... things he's said is that: "MIT is not a war", "what are you doing for fun ... you want to add yours (Doesn't have to be Facebook lol). The tech is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  right now. The main difference is that four years ago I was sure I'd end ... My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my application, which I barely remember anymore - occurred via a link in the blog

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  = number of Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open is one of them (along with ... Three days until the US Open officially begins! As an engineer, I'll give some numbers: - 125 = number of years the US Open has been around

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  about admissions. this is a safe haven from that. you should not be ... feeling stressed out right now. You can use the comments below to blow off ... don't dwell on the subject. talk about literally anything else, subject

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  always, points will be awarded for creativity, not just for the right ... if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round Two. White Circles - People: 1) Me (not shown, taking picture

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  is still the smartest person I know, and who I wouldn’t be here without ... the blogmom, who is the mom of all the bloggers, Elizabeth C. '13 aka ... not be here if it were not for her. She was the first person to believe

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  ’ve been serving various purposes. The latest is a makeshift Towers of Hanoi ... love. The Class Council is giving away tickets to a lot of concerts in ... . Wow. The concert is like an early birthday present, especially since it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Neurobiology Lab class, is arguably one of the most oh-god-I've-fallen-into-the ... 've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been busy, because it's always right around midterms. Those not-quite-fun pset

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ... a giant bag of candy. The important thing about ELLs is that, even when they get competitive, we’re more interested in the “so what?,” not

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line ... back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. Here is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... winter still astonishes me. Okay, the air is spicy and the sky darkens much ... , it is a chill class since it is all problem-set based, and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore ... hosts the fall career fair. This is a pretty big deal at MIT, where all ... night before by cleaning up my resume, albeit not very well. The next

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020