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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  one more all-nighter. The problem is, being a recent graduate myself, I’m

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  , blacksmithing, pistol, etc. That said, I'm finally getting back to the alleged

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I’ve made to lead me there, I noticed a strange…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  grades to report. You should choose the option, "I’m not currently

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  when you apply. I'm hammering this point home because, as with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  painting murals (on canvas, not the walls)...I'm going to be helping with

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  structure. As for this class...well, I'm sure there was some learning done

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of consciousness between an otherwise unbroken day of naps to share with you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  their wonderful meals at Kevin's Woodfire Grill (I'm jealous). MIT is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  Future. So what I'm asking all of you is: do you like Facebook Like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  yesterday gave me a new view. Now I'm sure that no two tours are exactly the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , and I'm pretty proud of that. Anyway, at the end of the game, I dove

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  advocacy for Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA). I talked to her about how I’m

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in Haiti, but I'll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a night of live music, dancing, and some pretty funky Haitian food, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  moment on campus… and I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to say: Mission

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010