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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  that is not light-hearted will be deleted! :-) I'll start. McGann's new ... weekend. I'm seeing the first signs of spring. What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create a silly thread. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  experience, we realized how potentially toxic the idea of a dream school can be ... Lilo and Stitch Opening Scene from Lilo and Stitch I Can Go the Distance from Hercules I Won't Say I'm in Love from Hercules The Gospel Truth from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  We read applications from students interested in everything from apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  other things) the film 10 Things I Hate About You (yes, I can't believe it either -- two references to 10 Things I Hate About You in less than a year ... geeks, and thus you might be asking yourself, if I went to MIT, what would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  still have no idea how integrating factors work!" or "I better get a good grade, because I spent 100 hours on this project." or "I slept in the ... students I met would expound on how much smarter they felt then the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... 'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  start my own project. I remember how cool I felt when I first told my ... never told them but I like to pretend that they cared. But, in all ... thinking about, and where the time I put in materialized in the form of cool

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film ... to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  , I'm trying to tighten my culinary grasp in order to make new and ... extrapolation, I conclude that 8.07 will give me a new car before October.) -Film ... , my interest in comparing mediums had evaporated to the point where I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  . Plus I got to meet Bryan in real life, and he promised he would organize ... Well, apparently I touched a nerve with my last entry -- sounds like ... 're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and ... year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very ... I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  , but I feel a vicarious thrill seeing the same expression reflected in ... past week. Like many freshmen, I was participating in one of MIT's many ... awesomeness, in fact, that I decided to experience it the next year as an

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the ... smaller role in my life. I was very wrong. When I came to MIT last August, I decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... haunting. After Loomis, I headed down the various parkways towards New York ... hour traffic), I picked a direction randomly and ended up in Scarsdale

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he ... the role this blog, in particular, has played in my career and how that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in on-campus residence halls. You can read more about housing on our page Housing at MIT. Just as important as where you live is what and how you eat. At MIT, you may
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  class in MIT's programming sequence, which is also, in fact, not 6.0002. I ... destroyed, and I found myself with unexpected free time in the second half of ... can say with confidence that I have finally, after two-and-a-half years

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  year, I know exactly how to prepare and interview for jobs in the future ... About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... from the process, I wanted to talk about how applying to jobs was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my ... anymore. Then he asked what I dig. "Blues," I said, "born in New Orleans ... One clear Thursday night long ago I was playing ultimate frisbee on

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009