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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of ... balled up a white t-shirt covered in even more Twister polka-dots and

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... has been reported that applications to MIT for this year have increased ... blog entry. Application tracking: This is the big update for today. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one ... my darn itchy hands for escaping necessary work+studying way too often ... mechanical pencil, and the ensuing distraction becomes a euphemism for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  what MIT has to offer. Being an artsy person, I signed up for a pre ... FAP I signed up for a freshman advising seminar in the arts called FASAP ... for Visual Arts, artists-in-residence, the Center for Advanced Visual

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far. It starts out really exciting! You get accepted, everybody cheers for ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  :45am: I actually wake up. I look outside and see that the bad weather hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... on their way for tonight's event. 8:20am: Ben starts spreading the word

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  up "no later than this Friday." Two and a half Fridays later (or ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  places at the same time, I had to wake up very early to go fly for Draper ... of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... " scale. Pset number two was for 16.05 "Thermal Energy" or more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... your first academic love." As for teaching science at the precollege ... from consulting firms and investment banks showed up on campus last fall

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the ... to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and ... sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase ... until 2 AM, whereupon I started my problem set and studying for my German ... would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week ... for at least 40 hours of desk service every week. Also, she's been ... like she's going to cough up a kidney or something every time I see her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  crazy sale so I picked up one that was twice as good for just a little ... best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason ... , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It's kind of like discord for your dad. Most groups have a general announcements tab

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... our testing requirement, but more than the 20,075 who applied for entry ... suspended our requirement for the first two years of the pandemic. Ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  machine shops for meche classes, little makerspaces with laser cutters or ... makerspaces, if you know where to look. The issue is, it’s difficult for any one ... crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  - the late nights, ordering Dominos, using the coupons for 2 Medium Pan Pizzas For 8.99 Each, the occassional late night conversation, sharing the ... up the dilapidated drum set in the tv lounge, subsequently teaching me

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  place for three consecutive years. This year, the winning team consisted ... of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof ... Mathematical Association of America (MAA)--the organization responsible for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016