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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  I am notorious for showing up at the right place at the wrong time. For instance, two weeks ago, I opened the door to room 3-343 expecting to attend 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II) office hours, but instead I found

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  though I will likely have very little to do with structural engineering in ... In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  interminably for the bus, wrapped beseechingly in our coats. As I silently wept ... drug. And I want to learn how to make it. Last week we discussed the ... While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a ... gave it a ceremonial sending off in the moat and sought a replacement. A ... survival of snowmen everywhere! We will defend! If I could give them out

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... . I want more school? Yes. Why you might ask? In my opinion, I ... worry and fret and take tests, I'll be in the same boat as you almost. I

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not ... sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy ... even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the campus life and culture like?

  It would be impossible to tell you about campus life and culture at MIT in just a few words, so we're going to have to send you to another page on our site—hopefully, you'll get a feel for the vibrancy of our
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned ... for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a ... . Shuli blogged about REX the other day and you should go read that. But I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  (It's from "Chicago," people) I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking. (I stuck ... changes in gender role and expectation over the past two decades and the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ork_hard.shtml I think I can, I think I can (Bryan): How do you have time to have fun ... Susan commented on the blog, "Because I live far away from MIT, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  the first day. How did I find myself at one of the most incredible ... who were interning in NYC. They didn't have a couch, I literally just ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this baby lion trying to roar long enough to ... online next Thursday, 12/14/17, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To check your decision on the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the ... waitlist this year. This is the first time in the last seven years that we ... students this year for the Class of 2016. I know many of you have been

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not ... On Friday, I attended a Undergraduate Economics Association ... about research he said, "The one thing all the sciences have in common is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  's something that I see even in the very walls of MIT. I know more people here ... , I know I'm in the same boat, because I didn't become a super-genius overnight, let alone at all. In honor of my 19th birthday (today!), I've been

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  , including a random lab tech in a white coat wandering down just as I was ... It's finally spring in Boston! And unlike the occasional t-shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  . In fact, joking aside in the previous thread, I honestly don't know yet who got in - with rare exception, I couldn't bring myself to look ... Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  semester we saw each other in the infinite and I decided that French Horn Guy ... DID YOU KNOW? Madonna is 48 years old. Seriously. Guys, I need a ... tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on Protobowl, going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and playing Sporcle quizzes. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  America, tropical cyclones (and military conflicts) in the Middle East, and an earthquake in Haiti. And, while our Early Action deadlines are approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018