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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  , at the insistence of one of Charles Schulz's friends. The friend sent ... at the Peanuts table. There are countless stories of people reading the ... is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  facts here. People at MIT may make a lot of robots here, and there may be ... -genius overnight, let alone at all. In honor of my 19th birthday (today!), I've been ... Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7 ... pieces of slack time between 7 AM and 9 PM. After Thursday, my self ... this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  . But after moving into my fraternity house at the beginning of this ... smoots. At MIT campus Approaching Lobby 7 In front of Lobby 7 ... take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  nearly forgot, the little company who's in charge of this thing, CERN? Yea,at ... . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  haven't perfected the art of being in multiple places at once. (Yet ... was hanging out with a bunch of mutual friends at Theta Xi, yet another ... week of spring classes has come and gone. I spent last night finishing up

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  the Cupcake Making Event for Women at MIT: Then a snapshot of the ... By Maggie Liu '12 So, first of all, let me start by saying that I ... completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... , well, "soft" sounds like "soph." IT'S SO GREAT. Living with six of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  . There’s nothing like looking at all of the people that support all that ... moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... problems, I could barely do any of them without first looking at the solution ... right. Last week, at a leadership training program called UPOP, one of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at ... meditatively with my cup of tea and stare at the CITGO sign across in Boston ... , after at least seven years of channelled and concentrated effort. I did it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  of looking at it), the Stand Up Rally is at Harvard at 7pm this Friday ... that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not offering pizza at its 7 pm meeting? Tough luck, Chess club, Debate’s offering

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At ... at home – sometimes the dead of night was the only time I could truly ... previous posts why I decided to take a Leave of Absence this year. The event

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those ... [/annotation] [annotation note="the cliffhanger at the end of the second season REALLY KILLED ... solid at Unity, but it was out of necessity and not necessarily because I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at ... boss. (Plus, what other admissions dean would rock out at Battle of the ... 't always been at the top of Jones' agenda. A scientist by training, she was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  content in this blogpost is based off of notes I found when looking back at ... to check it out. My first introduction to RT was at CPW. One of the ... have every tool at my disposal at MIT and that includes the knowledge of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021