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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts courses each year—with nearly half of students participating in music and ... degrees in Design and Architecture, and even a minor in Art, Culture and
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and dear ones. We hope you feel like you’re on top of the world, and we’ll have some

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  So REX or Residence Exploration began on Sunday afternoon with a ... , Senior House, and Random Hall all came to Kresge Oval with slingshots ... for their own contraption. Sunday night, East Campus threw a party

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  small things. For me, a love of wild and beautiful places demands ... into the mountains, across desert islands, into Stata Cafe, and ... -dried backpacking meals, ice cream, Shin ramen, and sous-vide’d New York strip streaks

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  much of a landmark and I've never even been there), etc."]stuff going for ... brought brownies and sat and chatted for a while. I forgot I was supposed to ... was the guy in my grade who I was chummy with for a brief while, before

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  want to come to an event with me and a couple other people from the ... the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... 's being in lab all the time for my UROP and working at the Senior Haus front

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  see, for the first time since 2006, there is FINALLY a hack on the Great ... for, you silly goose. Affixed near the Great Dome is a near-exact replica of the MBTA Red Line. This marks a pretty important moment for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  and try a new, adventurous wander-around-Boston-while-studying method. I ... up a breakfast burrito at Qdoba and camped out in a little park just ... the shade and tried to finish a final project report due that afternoon

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  testament to how often I get too lazy to pick out a real outfit and just ... figured I'd give a mini tutorial for any interested at home.   ... uncontrollable urge. Every single time I get a free t shirt, I can't help myself

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if ... ) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster. Waste hours for fun, while still knowing that after, one still has just as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the ... bags. TSA Agent: Have a good flight. Me: Thanks! TSA Agent: And welcome ... doesn't allow for a whole lot of off-campus adventuring.) I landed in DC

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  "Electricity and Magnetism for Masochists") had an official response to the ... consists of emfs and resistors into: an emf plus a resistor in series ... heat anyway. (and the "resistor" in a source like that isn't really even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW [annotation note="fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the lag and low video quality"]livestream[/annotation]showing the Class of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  groceries, here is a reference for food prices. In general, to see how expensive an unfamiliar grocery store is, check how much they charge for a few benchmark items, such as bananas, eggs, and milk. To learn how to cook on a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  means I'm on my way home to spend the holidays with family and friends. It'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm ... applications to MIT, best of luck to you! For everyone else, Happy Holidays, and

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  "]new[/annotation] restaurants and bars with my friends. This month, I actually managed to rack up a LOT of new ~culinary experiences~, and I've gotta say that going out to dinner with my friends has been a much more productive bonding

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the ... , thousands of pieces of mail a day. Between the US mail and processing delays ... received a week or two after the deadline will be reviewed and will not make

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007