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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... busiest hallway on campus? No, really, just think about it for a sec. "Uh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... . I wrapped up paternity leave last weekend and have been at the Harvard ... hello. So what do admissions people talk about for 6 days in a row, 16

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  --- EDITED 12/11/04 09:50 AM EST --- The postman picking up all 383 ... spaces for regular action, further pressuring people to apply early. We don ... 're aiming for a smaller class this year. So, given our 1/3 constraint, our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night ... applications, before heading to Teele Square for my usual Tuesday night pub ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  regardless of where you end up for school, you'll be able to get a great ... ) I have to do for the office. My silly notion that when I blog, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  volunteer for. The text line just opened back up this semester, and it ... mark it up with what has been done/needs to be done for that particular ... my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEn ... graduating (aside from the chicken farm!) and reached out to him for this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... 'm cataloguing them all for a blog post, but it's not ready yet; I want to collect

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  colored lights for each song. it ends up looking something like this ... for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... it into sheet music for an a cappella group, ie writing a solo part and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  naturally lined up with that. Summer is a time for MIT students to spend three ... relaxation and down activity, I'm not entirely sure I’m ready for that). And ... -style hall that the idea for 8,726,400 SOS first sparked. Since then, seeing it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  to start the "build" classes for my major (MechE). I better understand the emotions that coincide with the MIT Gamut (a term I just made up ... . Time soon came for the 2nd 2.004 test. It was three weeks away, the two

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  fellows); and of course there's the whole dressing up for class thing. (I ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a ... Nick, who was recently sued by Apple for defending free speech on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  don't want to not get lotteried into dorm X and set yourself up for ... 's really important that you end up in the best dorm for you and don't succumb ... process a little mysterious at best, so I thought I'd clear up the timeline

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out ... another group photo and that other group is waiting for another person who ... managed to figure it out, for the most part. [caption id="attachment_91429

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  be best to eat Oreos upon waking up for class. But if you slather ... to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut ... ? Easy. On the other hand, some truths are difficult. For example, MIT is

  • by Ella T. '25
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  bit, as we all get ready for the day. … After my first class, I meet up ... in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on"]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... sorry for her disappointment but sure she would be a fantastic student at ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  better way for you to feel welcome and pick the perfect-est living space ... friends from home. I’ve had to make up too many months of silence after the ... Library, the second largest in the country. Purchase tickets for performers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once, pretty much quiet. Walking up the main steps into Lobby 7, the tweetweet

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014