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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... friends and bonfires in true collegiate style. Wow, sounds perfect, like a ... something. So she pulled him aside, at a house party I think, and said, "Do

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it was because she is really a vampire and does not show up on film, but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• 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

  

  who were interning in NYC. They didn't have a couch, I literally just ... control of their classrooms.   Wow, what a list. I love attending ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  glass I want! And now, living in a dorm where I am in charge of my own ... amount of academic freedom I have. I’ve had a huge amount of choice in ... a pretty popular class, I got in, so I'll be fulfilling my CI

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in ... -elf rogue! i got into the game in a way i didn't when i played dnd digitally ... game i'm going to run. it's set in a magical realist world where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... we could not. As a former transfer student myself (not to MIT), I know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  'm hoping that I'll either be able to find one abandoned in a basement when I ... Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of ... least a hundred times over in the process. The mission of the admissions blogs is to humanize MIT. I hope that this video, in turn, humanizes

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the ... Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in college, I was an Apple Campus Rep. It was basically a marketing and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my ... excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  *THE* double, doubled + b1ner cribs!!! ROOM TOURS! GET YOUR ROOM TOURS!

  

  brought back the infamous b1ner cribs, and Layla and I (although in a triple ... genuinely forgot I was in a college dorm for a second! [image_row images ... -tour blog.[annotation note="i don't even want to begin to think about what i

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 16, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two ... friend since fourth grade (and a freaking genius) and myself, so I only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to socialize, not unlike a hipster bar in an NYC bomb shelter, or Olympic Stadium

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of Wikipedia: The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a ... : Delicatessen is set in an unspecified time and place with the appearance of a

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... backgrounds) Here's what I didn't have to back up before doing this ... Chrome as of 2010; I distinctly remember this not happening before) My

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  do some aerial stunts (I had no idea you could do loops in a Cub!) and ... production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that.) What follows is a blog post Lauren wrote last month about one of her

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  crossovers in socal MIT Students Visit Caltech and UCLA

  

  a place familiar to me, to rediscover and see new things in those places. This past weekend, I’ve traveled hundreds of miles in the LA area ... friend, Blake, a mechanical engineering frosh at Caltech living in Blacker

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 6, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I ... pet frogs and a powerpoint presentation. This year I'm sharing with you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  was almost there. A few minutes later, he’s in a much brighter place, a ... resolution to his stomach’s plight: a carton of Milk. In that moment, he has ... , in which a stretch of time found it confined. The Bonfire Resident

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  morning, over two years after I had last eyes on LaVerde's, to see a beautiful sight in front of me: a crowd of students coming in and out of a bustling grocery store with a huge CONCORD MARKET sign. I almost couldn

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025