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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... Jamboree in Quebec City. We spent three days in Quebec City and four days in ... popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... in my cozy bed. (I'm wondering that a little myself.) I am, somewhat

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style. In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... discussed, in class, our favorite and least favorite styles. Then we were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... taking advantage of IAP being, well, independent, and is elsewhere for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... varsity sport (if only for a year). Been in APO and the Assassins' Guild ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of ... cabs when travelling alone. The T is not scary. In addition, if you’re on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  your own resources and tips for coping on Decision Day in the comments ... 're probably nervous, which is normal. No one is certain they'll get in. That's a ... the admissions decision. That's a fact also. In the publishing industry

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  App essays, or gearing up for the MIT regular deadline. Wherever you are in your college app process: good job! You're doing really good, keep

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , including reading for fun, dancing as much as I used to in high school, and ... I don't much care for this nickname, lol...). I have three suitemates, and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  were doing astronomy research for the summer. His face lit up, in the way ... music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... quirky little hole-in-the-wall bookstore (in my friend's words, "it has

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  numbers come in: this year's admit rate will be 13%. For every student ... ;t get in, the tears came. Some would call me foolish for getting this ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the ... break for about half an hour and there's no refrigerator or microwave in ... that I really enjoyed cooking tofu for the first time in a long while

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with ... them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• 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 ... fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... in at least some small way. He created this community and made it what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are the deadlines for first-year applicants?

  new test scores” link in the application portal. The deadline for ... deadline for Early Action is November 1. We accept test results from any test ... scores for RA applicants through the January test dates. If you receive new
• 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

  

  research in the context of current national and global events. For Fall 2020 ... Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the ... description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  coming back here for Lent term than I was when coming here in September. I ... bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert ... only for members of that college. [] [] Oh and sunsets in Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  in the eye and saying "What do you do for fun around here?" It caught ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... mechanical wonders in various states of disarray, blabbing incessantly about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  . Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent way more time in my dorm than usual. Sean Collier's memorial service was scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those ... and living in those worlds more comfortable than my own for years. but ... davis and helped me make a home in myself. i look for stories and help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020