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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... the game plus all expansions, but we weren't playing at a high enough ... , but i don't play a lot of cooperative games so my experiences with them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ; together, they constitute an incredible community, each contributing a set of ... say we don’t admit numbers to MIT, we admit people. Yet this isn’t ... admission today, we have placed a small number on our waitlist and informed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... second floor, near the M-Z section of "Current Periodicals" so I can treat ... several small balcony sections from which you can get a nice view of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  (and most expensive) movie theater. When I walked in, I saw a big crowd ... course, I was one of the many folks who didn't get tickets. Instead, I ... story seemed to fall a little flat. And for those of you who were upset by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  - who, if you recall, I'm a big fan of. ...and there was dancing ... A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  wasn't just about what I could regurgitate on a test or what I could ... first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  would not have known that I could and do inspire others in a way I don’t ... -guess whether I’m saying the right thing, and every time I pretend that I don’t ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me ... . Day-of, I still had a pset due at 10pm. Delivery started at 7pm. I ... flooding in, packing a thousand or so 2019s into two floors overlooking

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  a new environment can be difficult, especially if you don’t feel like ... marked our second year as part of the consortium, and we’ve received a lot ... short answer is: we’ve been doing a lot! So we asked Claire, one of our

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  , a t-shirt designed, purchased, and lovingly packed by real MIT ... ! Apple Bake has been a fall culinary tradition in Burton-Conner for the ... floor actually has an Apple Bake Chair. While a lot of people on the other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  has low air pressure - after a few weeks one of my friends said, "I don't ... traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until reaching a completely different planet and moving there. Until about two and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  second iteration of the program. Admittedly, I didn’t go to a lot of the ... a learning community and traditional advisors. I didn’t take as much ... ) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  want to find out. I didn't know what a "palette cleanser" was before ... At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio Ghibli themed pop-up restaurant, organized by [annotation note="a cooking

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  prayed that I wouldn't make a fool out of myself in the classroom. It was ... topic at a very broad introductory level so didn't have to worry too much ... : Now, I saw a horn antenna in person last summer, and don't remember

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  ="aligncenter" width="232"] sorry it's partially cut off[/caption] I wasn't born a ... club safe. As a result, I'm serving on the exec team for my third year ... ="90221" /] Refraction cat wasn't intended to be a sticker, but Winnie was testing out the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  Selection has been busy enough that I haven't had time to do a full ... answer a few common questions... ------------------------------------- So ... selection will occur in a few weeks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  doesn't mean that you have a lesser understanding of the subject. But now ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... aren't sprinting.  Instead, through training they've built up an enormous

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Mystery Hunt Puzzle A Taste of Things to Come...

  

  , this isn't really a puzzle! haha ... molecular orbital diagrams. You still have a 14.01 pset to do, before the sun rises - and you haven't even read the textbook yet. Suddenly, these images

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  -speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional snickers, like "why does a chemical engineer want to be an actor, too?" But ... those seats, and I’m going to be standing right there. It was a mix of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  expect a report from your interviewer. Q: Why hasn’t my Quest ...  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the QuestBridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015