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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  why I'm willing to risk Sam's integrity and, consequently, my own life ... this entry, and it ain't gonna be pretty.

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  was a golden era when faculty "didn't have to answer to anybody." She ... 's Media Fabrics group. "I am a media junkie," Glorianna announced in her own ... personalize and share; and advancing media as a process of discovery

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  My grandfather was from Milledgeville, Georgia. He was a simple man ... got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he ... this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  spinning or a digital arts UROP. I haven’t seen sunrise from the Harvard bridge yet. I couldn’t do glassblowing or a fellowship with PKG.  but ... dear past me,  I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  , unfortunately, I wasn't assigned a prefrosh this year. :( By the way, Mikey just ... up with concerned grumblings and surprise. I wouldn't expect a whole ... Costco is officially out of hamburgers, UPS is making 5 trips a day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren't uncommon; people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences Favorite things about Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; the T (subway) is cheap and clean

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  we have a bookstore that doesn't have the word "book" or "store" in its ... 're interested in buying a bunch of MIT gear and you don't have access to campus ... can't very well talk about the ENTIRE INTERNET because you'd be here for

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit your Part 1 now, if you haven't already. There are no essays in there ... are related to not validating early enough. Also, don't forget to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday ... Spring Concert.  Every April, students bring a major musical act to campus for a huge concert. Going back half a century, the MIT Spring Concert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  good enough if they weren't edited by a professional editor. The activities that you do are no longer good enough if they aren't part of a ... need to buy a book of collected college essays. You don't need to read

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  ? just for times when you don't xactly have time to make a three ... didn't get back to campus until quarter til 11. I mean, come on. Anyway, for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  . I won't review mint oreo thins, instead counting them as simply a ... me with a strong smell of cream cheese, but the Oreos themselves didn't ... hadn't had yet. A lot of the ones left were ones I hadn't tried because I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  , "Slam is a safe place." In some important ways, so is MIT. If you don't ... stuff. Talk. And don't always feel like you need to have a p-set in hand ... seeming, so I won't go into too much detail. But I will share a dilemma I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  graduate institution. Of course, I didn't have a graduate institution yet ... lesswrong.com might be a good idea, although I don't know how much good it ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology and if it weren’t for 7.01x being a GIR (a required class at MIT ... have had a lot of interesting conversations at my fraternity about how T ... research if you ever want to become a PI, because if you don’t make high

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  kind of target. It wasn't a target I was proud of. Air pistol is a ... didn't feel like a single hand could support the whole weight of the ... same. But who didn't want a shiny trophy and a neat certificate? Six

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a ... on ~200 different mailing lists. This isn't unusual. There are some mailing lists that only see use for a semester, others that get used for a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  snowing. i hadn’t seen snow in years as a native of los angeles; from my ... questionable asphalt, i arrived at last. i didn’t exactly have a plan of what ... on campus. but i’ve found, increasingly, that memories don’t work that

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  flights weren't very expensive. as a plus, hundreds of other MIT students ... , we weren't about to ferry to the club, which meant we spent a shit ton ... sailing skills, we were able to rescue it. I haven't taken sailing as a PE

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022