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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in ... Drop come to mind) are student run. Student government has been a huge ... government at MIT to a panel during CPW, right before the onset of my college

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  to my identity as a woman. There’s a common theme here, though; it ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... 't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a ... was glad to find a warm place to dry off. I met some fairly cool people ... welcoming. I started to feel a bit better. The weekend went on as I struggled

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a ... professor encouraged us all to stay in the class: a 46 on the exam

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... take over. Crop tops that come to a point over the belly button only seem ... saying anything, pluck off a flower, bend down, and hand it to the girl. It

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  in the midst of a lot of relationship-related conflict to be reminded ... hadn't yet begun, my roommates were able to devote a lot of time to help ... I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of work compared to freshman year; sadly, this heavier workload is coupled with a painful lack of time. My friend's Facebook status currently reads

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person ... Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  's Shawn Estes having a nice pitchers duel in the early innings and a come-from-behind win by the home team thanks to a Troy Glaus three-run home run. Yet I ... (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  professors stick around for at least a few minutes to answer any one ... , according to our professor, about 140 courses at MIT require 18.03 as either a ... ), which are designed to allow for sustained and/or creative thought on a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  result, would waste the chance to produce a lot of food. What If You Can ... Carbs. Even if you opt into a vegetarian diet, make sure to avoid highly ... meat consumption — primarily beef and lamb — would lead to a per capita

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  's not wrong. If you rewinded back to high school, a younger me (still just ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in ... myself. I've been surprised to learn that there is a community of students

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  I wanted to post this a couple days before decisions came out but ... reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... some more and wrestle with the program to try to get a drawing or two out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... to check on any such documents (there is a time for this later). Will using a fee waiver affect my application? We are happy to accept

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first ... [annotation note="read: more willing to spend a little more for added comfort ... along the northeast coast. I’m listening to a playlist I made in 2016

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all ... workarounds had to be made. There is still a structure that rolls and coasts ... in Cambridge most qualified to safely construct a roller coaster in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  years later, about to become a senior this fall. Of course, one can argue ... now, [I mean, according to the student directory I'm already a fourth ... the realization that if I want hot cocoa/tea/coffee nights to be a thing

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  @mit.edu. We’ll be here to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure we get ... Southeast. Meanwhile, according to ReliefWeb, there is flooding across Latin ... these regions with much more immediately important things to worry about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie ... th century, so a number of motifs were developed to imply sexuality in ... fantastic a program as they’ve described it to be. I joined last semester

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018