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• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  Styles Vincent H. '23 of Texas, who went to Project School to learn how ... Hi everyone! It is that time again, the time of my[annotation note ... "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  school truck full of engineering toys. Check them out: So yeah ... . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  year of high school. Theater is a wonderful experience in which you meet ... ) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really ... front of an audience of 200 they shouldn't be looking at a black box on

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated ... of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I was actually kind of ashamed when I didn't recognize the iconic globe

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT ... regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  always too busy distracting myself from being bored by work or the lack of ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can ... is this behemoth titan hanging over all the weaker, new heroes of today

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been ... even one protest in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Truthfully ... under Taiwan's Universal Health Plan, I really had no sense of the great

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  high school, blissfully unaware of the cutthroat competition of the South ... of a high school experience I'll never get back. Science bowl isn ... of my high school days.

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... page. For most MIT bloggers, that change is documented, like dozens of ... of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... was far from the most productive weekend of the term. I tried to work ... section of Singapore. I had been really guilty about not devoting enough

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers ... sentences might be different —  "I transferred schools, and..."; "I took a mix

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  school too. I remember spending the majority of my sophomore and junior ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... . Anyway, some of those comments are all like, "MIT is hard, yeah, yeah

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  % of your friends are within 2 feet of you at any time while you're awake ... to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of ... capital of whichever Dakota or Carolina you find to be more mneumonically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Kazakhstan, and we thought the weather would be very pleasant at this time of ... for summer tourists"][/annotation] In addition, Qatar Airways offers a ... bookings in Doha. Here's a recount of my adventure! Hopefully, this will be

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... of making me, the superstitious person, look ridiculous when I replied ... them out to the surface; the whimsy of it all only adds to the appeal

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn ... pool. Some of my friends have been saying I got in because of my citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006