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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  you drag over all those colored boxes at the top of your screen and look at all of the options that drop down, we get to choose from those. We ... seen a new post appear at the bottom of the main page, the date hadn

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  to name me Ishmael, but somebody managed to talk her out of that one ... that it's such an important part of MIT undergrad culture that the site ... -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... new school year, I saw V for Vendetta last night at the LSC (MIT's very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  's South Asian Cultural Show (a huge event in Kresge Auditorium) at MIT; of ... at home, as I'll do today. I really do enjoy reading your applications ... coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought I ... kickoff meeting. By 1PM the committee was looking at its first applications ... I arrived at 8:30AM on Saturday morning, the Infinite looked like this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of altitude acclimation. - It's Sunday. We were woken up at 6:30am by very ... cardiovascular difficulties, so we went at a very slow pace and drank lots of water

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... [email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia ... system. In the wake of the events at Virginia Tech, many have asked about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... Enjoy a sunny Sunday afternoon at the home of an MIT Alum in Phoenix. Tuesday Enjoy one of two meetings held in the greater DC Metro Area at the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  also offers to sell me no less than three pounds of tiny dried shrimp, at ... A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note="At ... traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  completely done with their year at MIT, there are still hundreds of students ... the student feeling comfortable about a lot of different things at the ... throw at them. This is why finals at MIT are a whole new kind of special

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  , we had a record-high percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater ... The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  . I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out ... . Though it's been a lot of work, I've been having a lot of fun. Selecting

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  him haha jk). No, it’s because as a member of RingComm he had to be at ... photo position setup, and 2) NONE of us are looking at the camera (Karen ... ’s Delivery. Here’s a photo of our committee on April 18, 2017 at the 2019’s

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... esteem,” he adds. I am so excited to be a part of this new program at MIT ... opportunity to just have fun. Students at MIT have launched Camp Kesem, or Camp

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  , Pat You can go see more of Pat's work at the Media Lab on his project ... I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you ... Pat. I am a first-year Ph.D. student at MIT Media Lab (after two years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... floor, common area of main floor, thai iced tea i ordered at team lunch ... Learning division). The office was located at the end of Memorial Drive, so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the ... cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of at ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009