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• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  remember today for the people who didn't get to have a phone call like mine ... late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... faces, drained of their usual cheer, widened by shock. "A plane crashed

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm ... reading assignments with only a moderate degree of success at remaining dry

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Daniel would start by taking a class, because he didn't want the game to ... orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they graduate, which they can (a) keep with them as they go through their four

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  casual and a t-shirt and jeans are fine. That might open up an opportunity ... On a recent blog entry, I got a question from a student I thought was interesting:   hey matt i've got a question. right now i've got a nose

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  like I had from last week. Tuesday: Dropped 6.0002. It wasn’t a ... I had a post planned last Thursday, but then it was like everything ... actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  made within three days wouldn’t even hold a candle to how far they could ... "][/annotation]. Rather than a plot summary[annotation note="most succinctly, an 18 year old ... wisdom dispensed by the slew of cruft blogs. Reading them, I can't help but

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  ."]cancelled.[/annotation] After almost a year and a half of pandemic delays, it wasn’t a surprise ... class ring tradition just under a century ago in 1927. The nickname “Brass ... ring — a design element that has persisted to the modern day. MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was ... ): you did such a great job at holding water. oh great green bottle, you will be missed. I feel like a mosaic, comprised of fragments of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a ... their future home on campus. For those of you who haven't already decided

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  when I was in the group. Yes, I'm a proud Log papa. :) It definitely ... , rather than watch. At MIT, you won't see a lot of people who just sit on ...  (an all-male a cappella group), and still keep up with the group as a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  lateral epicondylitis?" I won the "funniest answer" prize (a free entree and drink at California Pizza Kitchen) for guessing "leprosy." I don't know, I thought it was a pretty reasonable answer. I know I promised an entry on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  password, because if you don't know it when you go to check on the 18th ... not have a definitive date and time when letters will be mailed, but it ... expect a large envelope and not a tube. Students not admitted will receive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  called Two Truths and a Lie, that blogger was me, and today I'm a slightly ... I'm already 19...here comes the nostalgia...   A lot has ... a problem. Sure I learned a lot, but I didn't feel different. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  have all day. - I'm a big believer in getting to know a living group ... Let’s take a tour. Begin by walking down Dorm Row, which takes you ... 's cultural houses, as well as a few culture-unspecific living groups, like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... ready for university study. Although we don't have any required high
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  axolotl. lush caves weren’t around when i first started playing; it’s a ... wouldn’t be able to swim across it. so i crafted a boat, hopped on, and ... not precise and 4,000,000.1 isn’t a number the computer can record. for

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  education at Cambridge, but it also isn't totally impossible (Actually, as a ... [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I'm ... Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  why Helvetica wasn't a summer blockbuster.)) Not that I've kept track ... be, will never win me an Oscar even if I'm partially Al Gore. 2 ... something to do with magnetic monopoles and/or the Freemasons. (As a point of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  , it probably wouldn't even qualify as a city. Where is it? Up in the ... French. I'm a little bit of a language nerd and I've been taking Spanish ... question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019