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  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  , and I now have a list of 140 different acronyms used at MIT. I spent two ... , it's only fitting that MIT is itself a LAND OF ACRONYMS. Our first few weeks as a freshman on campus involve a deluge of new three-letter codes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma '14 ... resident Queen of Party, I've been getting the feeling that some of my party people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a ... , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you have registered, you will have a host. (More on this soon) Speaking of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation ... (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... ’s kind of crazy how four years ago on this exact day, I was deferred from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  good bonfire, our group of five decided to take a look at what was ... , mother and son. At a call, two members of the family had to pick up the ... group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  alarmed at the complete lack of collaboration with residents in the process ... of the world quantitatively. And personally, I love being at MIT! but I ... involved, and an underlying sense of amazement at the dedication of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile ... and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty MIT students tried to better their Spanish, interned at local companies

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5 ... before) and gave Megan a call at around 5:15 AM. Much of what Megan says

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... training for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University ... here on out. Our week-long training was almost entirely composed of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... summer camp, right? Not quite, it was part of sophomore Shaye Storm's summer UROP at Jim Elliott's MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory. As most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  previous posts, I was heartbroken at some of the people we couldn't take. All of us in admissions were. But at the end of the day, we have x number ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  . But the ensuing string of comments didn’t agree with me at all. Her own ... facebook and my two teenagers, I’d be hopelessly inept at water cooler conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do ... pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a ... students, and everyone else who is a part of our community and more. And so

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  of the best things that's happened to me at MIT. “These are all ... It's easy to get overwhelmed at MIT.  From the pressure cooker of ... serious disease: Signs of Winter School addiction: (1) on Wednesdays at 11

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  I mentioned that I'm in the midst of a summer research program at the ... here with me, and one of them turned 21 three weeks ago. I mentioned that ... Array (of radio telescopes) in New Mexico. This is what the Whirlpool

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at least Chris M did. Yesterday a video, made by a bunch of people from

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  Believe it or not our term at Cambridge just ended. The terms are ... of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of ... life was already full of far more interesting things, like watching paint

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My ... whole brevity thing." This is sure to be one of the prouder moments of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and ... description of all of the Institute's academic programs. We receive a lot of ... nonprofit organization we don't have funding to supply these types of items