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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  all the people that love to hear about vaginas! This is the only ... you listening, both guys and girls, to state that this is not what the ... I've recently had the opportunity to see three MIT productions - I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... waitlist. We will have more information for waitlisted students in the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  lags and is measured in carrier pigeons per second ***let it be known to ... . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... pset parties***, the awesome people - but if I had to narrow it down to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  of the US. In middle school I wanted to be popular. Freshman year of ... 'm going to let you in on one of the not-so-pretty secrets about MIT: it ... When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  mentality of "This is absolutely the dorm that I want to be in," certainly not ... In response to my last entry, Drew asked: "So, how important is it ... be in now because it's not easy to get into some dorm in the re

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  cannot do so, because the context in which his works were formed is gone ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... added, "MIT also encourages us to think about the future as much as the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... looks come to life in the runway show, and additional designers had the ... access to the magazines—in my experience, many more people were talking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8 ... ? All in all, an amazing five days with some of the most inspirational ... ), one of the FPOPs (Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs) offered to incoming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  he played The Fonz in Happy Days). 20.441 is probably my favorite class ... II There is not much to be said about this class except that ... using Python and MATLAB. The awesome description: We get to build virtual

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U ... 'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  ago. I tried to reproduce the first picture in the post I linked. But ... . Look at all the grass around it. Look at how tempting that grass is to ... 'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  appetit! (Feel free to leave other recommendations in the comments) ... A few weeks back, I ran into my friend Andre '08 on the T (that is, the Boston subway). Andre, who is on campus this summer working on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  have to start drinking it in mushy cauliflower smoothies. On the other ... , adapted to, put neatly in its new spot in the revised status quo. Bad change ... ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  how to code in three weeks. The lab assistants, TAs, and lecturers were ... , I usually smile to myself uncontrollably in the hallways like the ... IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  summer I'm in the IAP program Ohhhhh You plan to do misti after graduating ... Not the best coping mechanism but it is unquestionably effective to ... “ Not the best coping mechanism but it is unquestionably effective to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in ... nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to ... to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. MIT is
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Superbowl Discuss.

  

  , but I'll return next week with the next Q&A and other new content. In the meantime... Superbowl: discuss. Who are you pulling for? Who's going to win? And most importantly: who will have the best commercial?

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  MIT professor Woodie Flowers back in 1989, before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to ... haven't been there, this is the next best thing: The field was set up in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different ... on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms ... bit in that regard. Allow me to introduce, Beaver Scope! According to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  bound to each other, constantly in orbit, trying to survive the most ... , talking to editors at publishing houses who were interested in my book. The ... happened because it gave me the financial privilege to be able to stay in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022