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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Today I'm hosting a guest post by Jade Durham '25, who — alongside ... applications SORRY JADE."]I didn’t hear back from Petey for a while ... worried that I wasn’t doing enough, that I wasn’t a good enough writer, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  genre, an instrument, a song title, or a composer, I replied "I'm ... blessing, because Dudamel took off his fancy jacket to reveal a black t ... Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  served. I can’t condense this shift—mine or campus’s—into a few sentences ... now post-grad, I’m in my silly era, letting some tempered version of a ... for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  shouldn't be very surprising! 91.7% — Random, naming a nearby grocery store as what they can't live without. Random is a cook-for-yourself dorm ... thought that writing an interactive Buzzfeed-style quiz would be a fun way

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a pair of stories about a terrific pair of young women... Chandler '13 and ... COLLIER COUNTY: A set of twin girls in Collier County have a lot more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  : CPW IS A WEEK AWAY AND I'M PSYCHED OUT OF MY MIND. Seriously, this is ... I'm kind of confused - if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble ... . ------------------------------------- The schedule looks fantastic - for the kids. There don't seem to be many

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  problem: I'm programmed to wake up at 7:30 AM naturally, and I haven't yet ... haven't slept more than six hours or so in a single night since before ... pilaf, and a crunchy green salad. Basically springtime in a bowl. Ok, I'm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  , 28, a technical writer and 1998 graduate of M.I.T., gave a two ... pepper-cinnamon and peach-passion fruit -- since this is M.I.T., many ... that a fashion trend among students and alumni involved T-shirts bearing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  , Virginia. Alas, DeRon got a mild concussion early in the game, so it wasn’t ... of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. But they don't stop ... a football team. But Brown's season isn't some statistical fluke. Last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  away. “Cows ran away” is a common American idiom for “We didn't buy ... Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  who didn't know soft boiled eggs were a thing until I ate ramen for the ... snack or side dish. It's also a way to consume avocado that isn't guac or ... for mustard since I didn't have any and...it worked, surprisingly. The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  Geek. Don’t pretend you didn’t at least watch a few minutes ... absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another prefrosh from Kansas. I’m one of those people who function best when I

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  . i'm tired and don't wanna do all of that linking right now. but if ... The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother ... and felt, boxes and tiny army soldiers. I'm sitting at my desk which is

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  isn't putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  northeast! Through a collaboration with Boston University's dance team, Dheem, MIT Natya put on a show called Laasya, which means 'dance' in Sanskrit ... dance as I did. As the host school, we didn't actually compete in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  office. I can't say the same about my room as a kid. Have a great weekend ... status, and I'm just sending pictures of my office. Matt and Ben are doing a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . Anything else?: I'm a big sports fan - specifically the Chicago White Sox ... and activities really seriously, but they don't take themselves too seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It was 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in ... '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of ... tell you how you can solve your plots. A few of those sheets had not yet

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  that I wanted to go on a tour but didn't want the other people on the ... yesterday gave me a new view. Now I'm sure that no two tours are exactly the ... gone by. So if you come to campus, I hope you'll take a tour. You won't

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010