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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  scene at MIT but also that of Boston. Apart from the 2-hour weekly meeting ... advisors. As always, we met at the T—the starting point of our treks ... advising. Freshman advising at MIT falls into two general categories

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  we started a flame war, yes, but at the end of the day, we did change ... at MIT. Not to mention the fun of a great flame war. And that's all ... The dust settles. We the class of 2012 waged epic battle tonight

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  group of friends to take pictures. Here’s a picture of my group: At 6 ... allowed to send in the names of people that you wanted to sit with at dinner ... music. It was great at first, but we quickly exhausted our small cache of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  students plan gap years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the ... about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  on campus at the ungodly early hour of 6:30am, then headed off to the ... packing up my stuff at the end of sophomore year, before heading abroad, I ... abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  and I woke up at the crack of dawn to catch the [annotation note ... almost all of our supplies. After those forty minutes at Trader Joe’s, we ... there were another 36 on hand), boiling 12 packets of udon all at the same

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the bombing and are both in serious condition, at http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets, shirts, buttons, dinners, posters,, CDs, etc. One of these citizens of P

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  organized by students — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." And ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  of five, maybe six hours at most. But even those brief experiences were ... education MIT provides. Out of everything I have experienced at MIT - my ... factors at MIT. If you're not yet convinced of that, let me present you with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  've received stipends that cover only a fraction of the costs. At one point ... alums of all backgrounds and interests come together every morning at 8am ... of my training mates at Mitchell Johansson Method, starting her

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  promotes group learning and collaboration. Students sit at tables of nine ... freshmen at MIT, combining traditional subject matter of AP Calculus AB and ... of humanities classes is at your disposal through a summer lottery

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  go to bed at 2:03 AM and wake up at 9:10 AM. Of course, my sleeping ... . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  felt here at MIT and the lounge was just one of the many reasons. At a ... heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  left under the auspices of lab scientists at MIT's world ... by none other than my floor (Loop). At Random, each floor consists of ... machines at Random get fixed. Stay tuned for the story of my four

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday ... a glorious 2 extra hours on the tracks, right outside of New Haven. I made the most of my time by studying for my neuroanatomy exam, but I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  I live at Burton Conner (W51), at 410 Memorial Drive, along the Cambridge edge (Cambredge?) of the Charles River. To the east of my dorm are some fraternities, and then Baker, former home of Matt '00. To our west

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  collect those big envelopes you'll be waiting at your mailbox for. Many of ... 's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer ... , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of ... episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I woke up early this morning and was

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the ... fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005