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• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  ’t suppress the desire to go back just 48 hours, so I could’ve slept just a bit ... on me. In the end, a biology major likely wouldn’t have changed much in ... .  Immediately after my botched exam, I took the red line to the Boston Common

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  the comments thread in this post to leave your best wishes for Ben as he ... As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a ... he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  awesomely scored tickets to see The Colbert Report on Wednesday, so we ... -related assignments to do for tomorrow, because I'm the biggest slacker on Earth. Oh, it ... , like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Dartmouth on the bus to visit and I gave him the grand walking tour of Boston ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... existing product (in this case, the ability to control your playlist) and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  ’s the inside via webcam shots… Someone decided to put all the pages from a puppy calendar on the glass wall by my workspace… Mess, mess, mess – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher ... have no real interest in MIT from applying (the ones who do not wish to ... held to the highest of ethical standards. Just as we expect you to not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... /computers to design! Researcher Larry Sass, who teaches the intro class here at ... +Planning, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. (Here are some statistics on

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it ... put the combined might of our six alarms together to make sure that we ... ’re just on autopilot. And then the site loads! And for the first time, I don

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  decisions (or Minecraft zombies), just dim the lights and chill out to this ... released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was ... intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the ... instead of a suitcase. On our to-do list so far, we have 1. Roscoe ... the last bit of my milk, which may have been a problem tomorrow

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  So on my way back from my BE.370 recitation, walking down the ... discovered that not only was there the booming, there was FREE FOOD. Cue the ... passing through, the free food was Italian coffee and sushi. So all week

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  to fax the document to us. The fax number you should use is included in ... ; edit: some of you appear to have had multiple copies of the email sent ... they couldn't bear to send you a single email. Apologies for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  used the phrase when we were little, starting at around kindegarden, to ... unsure. The other is like "Hell yeah I'm going to save the world with ... experiences I wouldn't give up for the world. So it's okay to not know what

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  , back to the first line of the post. I can steer myself any direction I ... to RI and then I take a train back. The trip there went really smoothly. The trip back was a little iffy. My main leg was fine, I made it to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  know Weekends, get it poppin' on the low Better days comin' for sure ... may have some questions, so we’ve assembled some answers to FAQs. Many ... you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  , but we’re not obligated to make it fit the theme so long as we ... anything at MIT you must be willing to ask the difficult questions that ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  'm here now, so it's okay! Or something like that. Moving on to the point ... accommodate GF diners (I have not been to these): On the Border Burton's Grill ... at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own

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

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  . Don’t wait until the last minute to submit. Life loves going wrong when ... working on your college applications instead. But since you’re already here ... /carbon/other gases. Review your deadlines. Not every school has the same January 1st

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  we’ve finished up touring houses on the Boston side, it’s time to cross the bridge and head to campus to visit our final house: Theta! Here to ... undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the [annotation note="the six

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025