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• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate status. “The courses are cerebral,’’ said Carrie Sampson Moore, director ... undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  I can move on to the next chapter of my life and start addressing ... Of all the student groups I am involved with at MIT, the one that brings me the most happiness is Camp Kesem MIT. Those of you who have stuck

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  . Like all good video game music, it sets up the right amount of tension to ... , and the biggest threat of all: herself. Celeste makes it with a limited ... 's the dozens of objects that appear in Celeste that make it interesting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of all of that make for a “good match” like the college admissions ... been used to protect the identity of my cousin. She does not like for me

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  Leonard take up way more of the show than Howard and Raj does, and you can ... takes up a good chunk of the series' plot lines. Phoebe and Joey say the ... usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and ... you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage ... timeline and the remainder of the email (which I've pasted below so you can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  has trouble understanding what one does on a vacation to the beach.) No ... , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... scared of flying, and Adam always tells me stories about the tolerances of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast ... important meal of the day normally starts my day with a feeling of guilt ... offered the explanation of his obsession with The Simpsons. I dare you to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  *written by Mariam D. '20 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... before us, their eyes squinting in the glare of the merciless sun. There ... look (maybe they’ve caught a glimpse of the soccer balls). Some are

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the ... talking to someone whom they suspect does not know the numbering system. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  a "Liège" waffle, with little bits of caramelized sugar on the outside of it. But wherever it's from, it was probably the best waffle in the ... , growing up 15 miles outside of Hershey, Pennsylvania: The Sweetest Place on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... about your living group, the student groups you're a part of, your major ... living groups, all of the majors, 41 varsity sports, etc. Finally, divide

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for ... the ultimate goal of developing leaders in the academy, industry, and society. Matriculation to one of the world’s top schools of science and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... have become vastly more aware of the messages and undertones of which we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our coursework can leave students feeling hosed. So it's only fair that students
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  "]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman ... edition addressed the little inefficiencies in my last rooms. I realized ... character. I got curtains that block as much of the sneaky sunlight, unlike

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... music does incorporate Dahl's original lyrics and I thought the second song of the five (about Augustus) was incredibly catchy. The movie

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  preparation for surviving the rest of this semester. As always, it was good to ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the view from my seat in the last row, and then some of us in front of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  we do."]unprecedented number of applications[/annotation] over the last ... challenges. And the bleary-eyed, decision-fatigued humans on the other side of ... with all of our Regular Action applicants.   Thus, in observance of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020