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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  this one is gonna be fun. Today we will be going on a tour of three different MIT fraternities! Fraternities existing at MIT may seem like a crazy concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a mountain range of saguaros. Sah-wah-rows. I am from Arizona, which means it’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  important, though: a group of 20 MIT students wandered through campus at 10pm ... of the windows were black. But this was on the side of the building: What? All 20 of us - 10 upperclassmen and 10 freshmen - froze. A laser

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  Today is the official beginning of Spring Weekend at MIT. The ... Concert. Here are some of the highlights from past years. In parentheses are ... from the band (if different). For some of these bands, choosing a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  two years. Clearly this will be one of the four; no need for discussion ... photographer and managed to convince me that the photos at the end make the show ... sortof like LOST because of the interplay between past and the present

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... duality of IHTFP, which at once means I Hate This Fucking Place and I Have ... 't that bad. That was one of my last reservations about committing to MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  talk to me, none of that would have happened. I never was good at ... about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts ... Memorial Drive side instead of Amherst Alley because I don't quite grasp the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  game at Fenway! I can't believe I haven't gone yet! I drew this part of ... something along the lines of, "Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)" as ... out of using one in the first place. I didn't worry about perfect lines

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... outside of what I've always known get realized was really striking. I was ... who lives in the city. Here's a photo dump/itinerary of what we did

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  ) blog post about 7.S390, look at her photos of the final presentation, and ... ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... videos. At the time, I was thinking a lot about the foods I eat and their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  ***UPDATE*** If you're taking the SAT on the makeup date of 11 ... are currently processing thousands upon thousands of documents ... morning of October 31. We apologize for the inconvenience. Application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown ... a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... , we just know that we have not processed it. We will not look at your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  sort of relief. I didn’t like stressing over the election, but at least I ... against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  presented to the professors and panel of jurors at the final review??? Panic ... reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for ... I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to hear the awesome director Michel Gondry speak (courtesy of LSC), and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... hours of lecture, 2 hours of “Scientific Communication” class, 8 hours of lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  for at least 40 hours of desk service every week. Also, she's been ... . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told that it was a hellish six hours involving four tours, lots of walking

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  that QuestBridge applicants often have at this stage: Q: What do I do ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what ... sure your full name and date of birth are included, as well as the word

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again ... hear that, after two weeks of uncertainty over where i was going to stay ... frozen is one of the films i can remember the animation well enough to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020