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• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  next fall. Regardless of whether you applied early, most of you should be ... Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out ... each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I ... . Despite multiple months of sitting on this idea, I didn't start creating

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  from the University of Minnesota, that humans swim equally fast in syrup ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner of the fire extinguisher box, we see an all-caps "FIRE EXTINGUISHER

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  where I was applying, and then I didn't get in, everyone would make fun of ... (although you should have heard them brag about applying to MIT). And of ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  advantage of running around the Charles River (and all the public water fountains alongside) There are lots of smol nerds running around the various MIT summer camps and programs It's time for those of you who might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and ... should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too long too tell you, and now it's too late to apply." So, for your

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... 't even read that many things, which will explain the short length of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  'm applying the "enjoy the power and beauty of your youth" concept and ... locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... much entirely of pictures of me standing in front of various European

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or ... 's just akward). Despite what exploring the akward intricacies of inflection ... deluge of school came. (I was mildly successful). It was surreal coming

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  across the hall. Sara '12 is also a resident of Conner 2. You may remember ... cook almost all of their meals there. I'm not very cooking-inclined, nor ... hash was one of the most miraculous days ever. Sara, however, still

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to skeins of yarn and unfinished crochet projects, I can say that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  and move into one of 12 official MIT dorms. Once you arrive, you will be ... can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  exhilarating. Let's look back at the two aspects of MIT and see how they applied ... When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  annihilation, in the basements of applied-science-based campus fraternal ... Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005