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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  one can be a graceful Rheinmaiden while suspended 30 feet in the air I ... , and epic-scale lust for the power caught up in a little golden ring ... Lincoln Center after a comfortably squashed trip in the Boston-NYC Megabus

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... genocide was once again occurring, though this time in real-time, I just had ... activists in the Boston area by attending a Darfur rally in Government Center

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... lasts for a week. What happens after that? Well, once an entry leaves the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  flee the country, which is what I did through the Big Dreams program. I ... if I wanted to join a teaching innovative that he founded. Big Dreams ... was able to communicate with the girls and get around in the city in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some ... , our supplement, along with their QuestBridge application, acts in place ... Bridge Supplement. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist that did not rank MIT, you can
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  , competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math ... on your major, you may have covered more ground in one science ... institution. We select students who we believe are a good match and who we feel
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  events. Guess what they are based on this picture of my bookshelf. Since I ... official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... she once left a cupcake in a bio lounge, and later witnessed Eric Lander

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a ... of a Patagonia catalog.  Certainly I loved hiking, and spent a lot of ... been one of those things where the more I put in, the more I get out

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  ...) "What in the hell am I doing here?" It was a beautifully absurd MIT moment ... was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... Friday when I was still in New Jersey. A couple of hours after that I got

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  . Whenever I finish a relatively mainstream series (ex. The Owl House, The ... commentary, allegories, plot devices, etc. I emerge with a deeper understanding ... to perform what’s called a holy trinity, a move usually done with a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  for a good half hour. For what purpose was this? ^We lined up with ... it was seen during the tetris hack last year during CPW! I was in ... pendulum for brave prefrosh to take a ride in. You can see the double

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  out I am in fact taking Beginner's Yoga this quarter. Every Tuesday and Thursday from 12 to 1, I am in the T Club Lounge, sprawled on purple yoga ... photographs of what we've learned so far: First, we start out with a few

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  Hi all! A few updates over what is, for us, a long weekend. First, I ... in the forgotten mists of 2004, I was editing the newspaper, the lead in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in ... . Jackson, a father figure to generations of young men in the house, died of ... dinner was like in 1948," said Ted Devlin of Somerville, a self

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  This week in verse There's a song that describes exactly what I'm feeling right now.

  

  Rather than write a real blog entry, I instead urge you to consider the following: An MIT surveyor came upon the gates of Hell, He looked the devil in the eye and said, "You're looking well." The devil looked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  , anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a ... . In fact, joking aside in the previous thread, I honestly don't know yet who got in - with rare exception, I couldn't bring myself to look

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with ... about his barber, who discouraged a young Nimoy from pursuing a career in ... film scores in a concert without John Williams slipping in there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  ; The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day [annotation note="If you don't know what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a person or group ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  of (a) from said lunch: She: You're a nerd. He: No I'm not. She: Yes ... ! She: Ew, don't call me that. He: Call you what? She: Cutie. He: I didn ... (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006