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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... best chance at being put where they're happiest. Of course no system is ... live. At the end of REX, you can enter the readjustment lottery, where

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST who are you

  

  As the committee meets for the final week of the Early Action cycle ... , 12/17, at 12:17 PM EST.   To check you decision on the 17th ... process, please email mymitpassword [at] mit [dot] edu with your full

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to that fine university. Here is the story of one of the very first students

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under ... , except it was late at night, and the sign was clearly no longer applicable

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  actually gorgeous yesterday, except for the 10 minutes at the proposed ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no ... ... fortuitous signage come back soon! One of my colleagues had a much

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  included about half of the astrophysics faculty at Caltech and MIT, which ... database of acronyms. I vividly remember that Professor Max Tegmark at MIT ... physicist can be. Currently the Feynman professor of Physics at Caltech, one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  shooting stuff out of air cannons, doing a ridiculous physics problem, or ... decisions come out at 1:59 PM, they more than likely will be released ~12

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  This past weekend, thousands of MIT alumni returned to campus to ... actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions ... previously blogged about here: Pat McGovern '59 - Founder & Chairman of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc ... celebrate the release of the new Harry Potter book: One of my favorite

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... and MIT President Susan Hockfield for a night of celebration at Red ... Francisco. • Attend one of the three events happening across China at 12:30pm

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... Spanish class of the day is at Harvard, SPANSH 81 Table Talk and Food ... class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve, most of my First East floormates disappeared, their tiny suitcases ... prospect of four days of academic freedom exhilarated, and our evening

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  . This year, ring delivery was held at the State Room on the 33rd floor of ... ; the image of a student locking hands with the Alchemist (above right at ... elsewhere at a college football game. One was when the figure of Mens was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  of FOMO immediately resonated with me, almost to the point at which it ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  design at MIT. In fact–today’s the day of Gala 2025: April 27th! Setup ... ) is hard at work setting up the runway with a border of iridescent ... doors open at 5! This'll be the last update of tonight—I'll be back after

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  . Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish ... at 10. We got out like half an hour early so I just sat on a random bench in building 4 until my next class which was 6.005 at 11. Um. We

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  . And listen to this—I looked at the skyline and made out dozens of ... saw three buildings next to each other, all of which had at least twenty ... remember walking around the streets of downtown LA at night, counting three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  chooses a major at the end of freshman year.* *n.b. Actually, you need not ... choose at the end of their freshman year. Also, changing majors is ... Management Science at the end of my junior junior year. How do students choose

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  possible at the beginning of each lecture so "we know what's coming", instead ... /review with a professor and TAs. Most of my "notes" are coming from the at ... (highkey) bad. The structure of the class really is made to give students as

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025