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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course, it was CPW and the weather was magnificent. But sometimes the most ... going to make me happy. Every semester or so, the MIT Press (located to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... East Campus at all in my short time so far, and had no reason to. The ... know that this is the place where I can grow, in all sorts of ways (in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  zombie on the loose is to shoot him. With Nerf guns. Also in the 23 ... getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the ... , you get to choose your dorm. You rank all of the dorms in order that you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  through it myself, but the basic idea is that your advising group lives in ... students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your ... many people like about it is that you don't have to go far to find your

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  Bristol Taking an Uber from the station to the flat I’m staying in (I ... before boarding, an old man rushed over and sank down in the seat next to ... , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I ... override our other efforts to show you - in pretty much every way we can ... To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the

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

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  balloon when the chocolate is set, but I wanted to somehow constrain the ... syrup, which is way hotter than melted chocolate. The trick to keeping the ... allowed to use the ants living in East Campus. The worms looked really cool

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the ... Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  't have to leave this place for long... Friday June 6, 2008 began in the ... report to the gym between 7:45 and 8:15 am. With 2,335 graduates, there was a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  Institute's capacity for innovation.  MIT SHASS is home to research that has ... among the finest in the world. With more than a dozen academic fields, the ... ; theater arts; and writing. All MIT students will complete courses in the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking ornaments off the tree to pack them away while drinking cocoa and listening to

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  Overall and Most Creative. Certain floors in BC tend to be more gung ... victorious for the past several years, had the most entries in the competition ... 't be able to hold it for the next two years since Burton-Conner is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at ... organizer of AR in Action is John Werner, the former Head of Innovation and ... Media Lab's Emerging Worlds, Ideas in Action, and is the curator of TEDx

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... various other locations in the building, hoping to continue following Obama ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  decided that we wanted to associate service with arguably the most memorable ... earthquake in Japan. Theta Delta Chi Prior to the challenge, acting ... fraternity. "I wanted to change our cause to one that is closer to the hearts

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the ... ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7173.mp4"][/video] Story time: So in order to get back to the ... time to start making change is now, but always remember the people that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  deeply-rooted familial ties found in Ethiopian culture to the many ... is to me.   (P.S. I wrote this on the plane initially, but we ... was taken near the marina in the Gothic Quarter. Excited to write about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  go to bed early. This is all pure speculation, of course. But in the ... was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I ... , and MIT is on a path to it. Not the only path. Not even the definitive

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015