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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  my old top choice came. I wavered for a moment. I knew at either of the ... . Current students, new students, alumni, parents of new students, parents of ... Tonight, I'll post the first of the reports back from this week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  20 different people! The ones at the bottom are by the daughters of the ... I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  your status of enrollment. If you’re at home and there’s still even the ... shiny new envelope, there isn’t a whole lot of really neat stuff. Once you ... . New World Symphony Wow, I just managed to, by way of an obscure

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  family like mine. Unfortunately all this came at the cost of 2 full days of ... . To see The coming together of things.   Then Tuesday at 1pm I ... able to do any work at all. Also, we have a totally sweet new 3-axis

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have ... get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so ... , getting swept up in the energy of a new academic year. But this fall, I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  I will want to look back on at the end of the semester to see if this excitement is just first-week delusion or the start of a new chapter in my MIT ... , this was at the top of my list because: It is so societally and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  at ben.mitblogs.com, etc. Then, at the beginning of the 06-07 school ... here, but um...that'd just be weird. Because the rest of this entry is SO ... gets the most disproportionate enjoyment out of the most random, absurd

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  it. During my freshman fall at MIT, one of my friends told me about a ... happens next, one line of dialogue at a time. I’d play out these scenarios ... some of my new pages to class, feeling utterly unconfident that anything

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  or a vapid deferral offers no reward for many years of hard work. But ... This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my ... . This is understandable behavior. The past few months of your life were

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Everyone knows the deal - MIT is a constant whirlwind of PSETs, exams, lectures, and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  remain at the forefront of many fields and have contributed years of key ... Senate Resolution 195. "Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts (for himself and Mr ... to: S. Res. 195 Whereas when the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ask good questions. To look at a situation and see that there is ... tremendous excitement about our ignorance, the wonderful potential of ignorance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  snippets at MIT without posting any of them? Lucky for you, there's a ... "Overheard at MIT" and it's just a huge list of conversation bits that people ... competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  new things, but none of these holds more meaning than happiness. And why ... the same kind of mistakes at about the same age, and master the same parts of language at about the same age. The input is necessary, but it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location ... there. Unfortunately, I have no intentionally-taken photos of it, but I did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  engineering and applied international studies. You'll know at the end of the ... I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your ... course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  in 34-401 (A room at MIT where a lot of EECS events take place) talking ... "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... , exploring new territory, seeing new sights, and eventually having their skulls

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this ... , ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006