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• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  and then besides watching traversing the MIT-verse? I asked a bunch of ... never stepped foot into. Felix ’23- take a walk!! Alison ’23- Hang out ... type of juice, take a walk and get lost (safely??), climb a tree (safely

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  ! Pictures of Food Deviled Eggs by Alex C. '15 Buffalo Chicken Mac & ... of our GRTs (Graduate Resident Tutors) who live on our hall.  She got special privileges such as first dibs on food and a special seat outside of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  , I was seriously considering the University of Chicago. That city also ... One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... one of us should stumble upon an awesome band performing live, he should

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win ... essence of their respective universities. But now, the MIT Coop had to ... merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on ... donned my most comfortable pair of sweatpants (Manchester United sweatpants

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  that the University of Texas, his alma mater, has its very own Gutenberg ... Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... with each addition of enjoyment. This bucket probably exists somewhere under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be ... of order if you'd like. My friends and I mostly wandered through random

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... , one on artificial intelligence, and none of my recitations are holding ... other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  Name: Jonathan Lii Hometown: Manhasset, NY Degrees and Minor: 18 and ... where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other ... sorts of crazy artifacts in his office and visiting him is always a treat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  university-turned-camp. There we met the president of the university, who is ... Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few ... friend-making perspective, but i really enjoy hearing new kinds of stories

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety ... compensating by drinking copious amounts of water isn’t working anymore. Suddenly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  available degrees are Supply Chain Management, Principles of Manufacturing ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018