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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  From October 16-19, MIT hosted twenty juniors in high school for our second-ever Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) @ MIT Fly-In program ... for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May ... systems, which was somewhat engaging, but, in true Severance fashion, I felt myself blink out and in of existence as I crossed the threshold of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  spotify ever since freshman year. shuli and ankita have also done posts in ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... what i study to nowadays. RIP having good taste in music. my one attempt

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... , mailing lists haven't been in vogue since before Nick Carter was but a twinkle in a record executive's eye. And yes, mailing lists are not as fancy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  time as a prospective student. In light of it being the night before CPW ... :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... from campus, etc. Each floor in Burton-Conner also has a different

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  There’s a trampoline in Simmons!!!! [caption id="attachment_94960 ... table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons Hall. For the last few weeks, large boxes have been sitting in the lobby

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  may be entitled to financial compensation in the form of “me buying a ... lives on Black Hole in Random during the year, where they have a tendency ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  here with you, talking with you, and existing in the same virtual space ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  interview. He suggested that we meet up during his short stay in the area, and ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar ... . Apparently, when she attended college at a certain Ivy institution in New York

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  rock band CDs and video game/TV/movie soundtracks. In high school, I ... ’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston ... limited number of as-yet-unclaimed tickets that you can buy for $20-40, let

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from ... went with high school with. As in, a couple I distinctly remember running around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  . That $20 in tech cash they give you? Use it right away for non-food (buy ... experience last year / my observations of other peoples' experiences. In no ... at least one more year (unless they're old, in which case, why are you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... humanities at MIT is non-trivial. In fact, I have just proved this fact in such a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The chocolate chip cookie was invented in Massachusetts by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... shrimp, and then crispy fries rolled in melted butter and dipped in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9 ... year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 ... : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of ... of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its ... , and Social Science. The report, written in the historical context of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  in 2006. Our institutional research website says, quite specifically ... A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... thing in particular—how accepting would that group be of my sexual ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... concentrating in Theater Arts or Creative Writing. Intro to Playwriting was the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008