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• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... joy of the subject. It can feel lonely at MIT in general—at least where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General ... ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  student groups doing fun activities. 58% of the admitted Class of 2009 are ... , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is ... . Another nice shot of the liquid nitrogen ice cream (aka "CryoFAC"). Cryo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some pictures and videos from one of the events. [annotation note="ive been mentoring for them for most of my time at mit and have really loved it

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  past[/caption] Todoist is...meh. It got the job done when I had a lot of ... record of things so you can look back on it. Also...can we talk about the ... the most aesthetic of platforms. Sigh. Combining multiple facets into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  , they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not only had a ridiculous amount of fun, but also left the City feeling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday ... on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via the Globe:  One of the jokesters — they cheekily call themselves “hackers” — reached

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  With the influx of the 24s terrorizing (see: joining) various Discord ... there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about ... -about-MIT-that-actually-aren't-true-ya-dinguses because I am so tired of repeating the fact that yes, MIT has good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I ... they were at the time. It's not meant to be a professional tour of MIT ... parts of the video willy-nilly whenever you feel like it. I've listed some

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will ... of days during my best of times no matter what the world moves on   that doesn't mean I don't matter I'm no insignificant blip in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 7, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an MIT Flying Club?

  The MIT Flying Club, headquartered in AeroAstro, motivates ... -scale flying for the MIT community. Open to pilots and non-pilots, the club offers regular general body meetings for members, hosts helicopter fly
• Blog / Events

  Time Traveling and Teleporting

  

  The Time Traveler Convention keeps getting bigger and bigger. Now, three of the media outlets I most respect have covered it -- NPR, The Economist, and, this morning, the New York Times -- on page 1 of the national

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of ... article on the Degas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), but I saw ... I reached the Huntington Street entrance of the MFA that afternoon

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  second of the day, so did every second of being at MIT.  Sometimes, the twinkling lights of the Prudential tower accompanied me into the late hours of the night. Other times, the sunrise reflected off of brownstone

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  many, this is the end of an era that started with the release of the ... celebrated the series a number of times in the way we celebrate: with hacks ... Deathly Hallows, was being delivered to the doorsteps of muggles, the Dark

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning and I shall have no end: the beam of light stretches out before and ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  tremendous excitement about our ignorance, the wonderful potential of ignorance ... the Broad Institute, Co-Chair of Obama's President's Council on Science ... abroad during the summer or IAP can come back and present to the rest of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  This evening, as I sit reviewing some of the first early action applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... . This reminds me that we haven't officially announced that all of the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  sliver of the voices at MIT, and yet we capture many of the experiences ... campus and college. The following is an unordered list of some of our top and most widely viewed blog posts of 2015. Within them you'll find the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the coolest parts of the NBM is the Athena Account Coupon. The coupon will allow ... . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005