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• 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
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between ... just catch up with people. Depending on the late-night energy, sometimes ... . We even decorate it nicely for the holidays, see? In any case, the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  coffee. I ate some Count Chocula. Nice visual. For those not familiar ... I need to post something. The blogs have been dormant for a few days - but for good reason. Have you read Lydia's post? Get on it here. I hope

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  to use!" which rapidly degraded into "But I need to set up a server somewhere first for it to run on!" But since I didn't want to run a server off my laptop, and MIT's virtual machine service is down for maintenance, I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  application deadlines for this year remain unchanged: November 1 for Early Action (EA), and January 1 for Regular Action (RA). While there are still ... Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Assistant Director for Minority Recruitment at MIT…..which is in Kendall ... share I walked up to MIT on July 7th, 2008 Made sure my shoes were shiny ... at my desk as the Assistant Director for Minority Recruitment (I told

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  , pickup trucks, parents, boxes, and luggage. All of these are for the people ... done and it was a wild ride. Like any wild ride it had its ups and downs but in the end it was totally worth it. For any prefrosh thinking of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where ... of Friday and all of Saturday completely off. Yes, that screws me for ... the bustle had died down (except for "Banned in Boston" which had taken

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not ... for fun, and when I checked things out, the "just for fun" classes put ... guinea pig for Course 5's lab restructuring, since my year is the first to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  interests were. I deliberately decided not to come up with a plan for that ... My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new ... ills that afflict so many. This blog will be for, and about, them. To

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... 'm now a resident of Burton 1, and unfortunately for Snively will probably never move out. Burton 1 is known for its '09 floor chair Kip, whose voice

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... something fun for the night. Because my fun included three friends who are ... that's okay. We went to the CambridgeSide Galleria for dinner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  testing requirements. For the most up-to-date information, please view the ... asking questions about our testing requirements. For those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary language, here is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  buyer's card, good for 20% off your next purchase of up to $200. I ... , this. Ruth '07, field reporter for http://sam.mitblogs.com, discovered ... stereotypical to be advertising an open casting call for "geeks" at MIT, but this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005