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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  (take advantage of pass/no record and see your friends at other schools ... It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  janet: when my friend Eleanor floated the idea of a guest blog about ... that yeah we were ahead of the times etc etc"]hashtag alysa liu and co my ... sweet and i knew whatever club she leads would be super full of heart

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  7 at 11 PM on Friday. · When I visited the headquarters of the ... been peacefully resting in the comfort of my sleeping bag back at Ashdown ... days living at MIT, taking advantage of everything I could without having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  -year academic experience at MIT. The initiative, which is ongoing, has been considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... . But at the end of the day, MIT students are, first and foremost, MIT ... fundamentally MIT-y, which makes it unique and different. At the end of the day

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  step at a time, with a lot of help and a lot of strength. And one of ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT ... it was his home.  I wrote plenty of times about how it was my home

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre genre came on ("Seasons of Love" from Rent). As I belted out the ways they ... first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early last month I made the terrible mistake of taking one of the 8am-10am ... Probably one of the most lucrative jobs on campus is that of the dorm

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of ... live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of ... . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  project I've got due at the end of the week. My group hasn't even met yet." Suddenly, out of nowhere: "Oh, and I just added a UROP, so I'm now at 72 ... taste of all the layers of MIT, together, at the same time. I'll try to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  we're told to keep mum about the details of our internships. (I am at a ... I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with smooth grey walls and crisp, square wooden tables. The smell of fresh paint

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  pictures of the tube and card. Probably because they came at different times ... Following last year's tradition, here is a few applicants' moment of fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  of one of the athletics buildings.That night we stayed at the Marriott ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to ... certainly cannot substitute for the real experience of being on MIT's campus

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  /photography, theater, and visual arts. All of these disciplines are well represented at ... Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010 ... begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  opportunity and artistic statement. Think of it like that classic episode of ... same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and ... , economic analysis of Bono's visit, my entry is about rock concerts and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  them sitting at a lab bench while wearing a white lab coat, safety ... at her and possibly send her to MIT Medical. Anna has every music lover ... . Anna's research is in the area of Japanese popular culture and is focused

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  the problems, quickly growing frustrated at the fact that none of it ... months ago, I began my first term at the Massachusetts Institute of ... 't supposed to happen until at least the middle of the first lecture, could

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch ... access, a badge I did not have. At the end of the work day, our team went ... . photo courtesy of iStock[/caption] I'm terrible at bowling. I was not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  your status of enrollment. If you’re at home and there’s still even the ... won’t regret it at all (you’re going to be looking at that picture of ... Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  first discovered at MIT. Both of them were recieved better than my first ... exclamations... so, if you look at a phrase and say "oh dear," you're out of luck ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006