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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too ... the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my ... in awe. That the sky burst with this kind of color most days. And the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of ... juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again ... -Pakistan conflict and how it continues to affect even South Asians in the United

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the Admissions Reception Center). This means that the room is in building 10, on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” is much more metrically flexible than ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  're going to have to T it up a little bit. The closest store is in Malden ... her first check-up. She is in excellent health, I am happy to report, although she doesn't like riding in the car at all. And now I really have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  the M.Sc. in integrated immunology at Oxford. Two stories to share ... 's "Rhapsody in Blue" at Boston's Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops. (For most ... Jennifer Lai '11 has won the Rhodes Scholarship. This brings MIT's count to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience ... orders in the computer. It might hard to imagine, but one day you'll be able to read this CT scan with ease: Hey, it sucks in the beginning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  journals in school, I would scribble all over the first page to break any ... a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... through Boston and tried to run to the airport [ [annotation note

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  interesting to note that one of the key points in the "Helium Stick" activity is ... offering help to one another is in tune with the same spirit. I'm not ... applications (while wondering why in the world my interviewer hasn't bothered to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  to win the Heisman Trophy, a two-time national champion, and the most ... the tears (see video). He invested so much in his team, his last season ... lore: the promise he made (see video) is etched in stone at the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few ... ="105033" /] In the meanwhile, other people were cooking much more edible dishes ... The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the [annotation

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code. Thank god. The school building is small, so we were able to find our

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  ; Classroom 10-250   10-250 is a classic MIT lecture hall, in the sense that pretty much anyone who’s been a student here in the last 100 years or so has probably had to have class in it at some point. This is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... pretty much tied in terms of campus culture and workload. I want to major

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the ... Sudan].” This action is without precedent in the Institute’s ... to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur and purchase solar cookers

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  few months? three. one of the things i'm supposed to value the most is ... life force to counter a spell. it ties in well with the flavor text of ... worryingly, what's preventing this from happening to me again in the future

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  visit me in Harrisburg over winter break, which is the second time that ... picture. Here is the same beaver hiding in its dark underground beaver ... the most awesome thing about the farm show is the greasy food peddled by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  before so be easy on us, but the way this is supposed to work is that we ... . 2:06 "MIT is very much a problem solving based approach to education ... can explain your work, you're pretty much useless to the world. You have

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008