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• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  huge, angry sun. Boston sunsets are always brilliantly red and beautiful ... the jog estimating that in miles-per-hour and minutes-per-mile. Hours later, my floor headed down to the Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  Legend of Korra, Steven Universe and Ratatouille. Like, if there ever was a ... our Animation class in MassArt and it was super fun, as always. We had a ... views and gives feedback on everyone’s weekly work). This week

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  reaching a completely different planet and moving there. Until about two and ... . The Land of MIT. And its inhabitants, the Students, look like this ... and had them stand next to each other, they wouldn't look that different

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  wanted job in the universe next year) -being bright-eyed and bushy ... I had a blast during CPW and I hope you all did too! Here's a rundown ... Research Opportunities Program and allows MIT undergrads to get research

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  pair of stories about a terrific pair of young women... Chandler '13 and ... sure bet from the beginning. Like many twins, Chandler and Taylor Burfield play the same sports and share the same friends. But unlike most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  degree afternoons. 6. I love the 18 year old drinking age. And the fact ... would always give me free muffins just because I'm Taiwanese and I try to ... love how lunch is at 2, and dinner is at 9. 4. I love how the stores are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is not accepting emails or answering phone calls (and I am on vacation ... . And below, I've provided answers to some additional FAQs: The deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... the beginning of the universe (read:Big Bang). In doing so they hope to ... rationalize gravity on the quantum level, and thus finish the standard model a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  perfectionist, not until the past several years. Perfectionism and high ... tendencies, and that shiny bar you've set for yourself becomes the standard for ... though, and it guilt trips you into believing that you settled for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure ... —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here. **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  ('14), a political science major and a worker at MIT's Rainbow Lounge ... doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... culture from all that I knew. And it was especially hard to figure out one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  dudette who provides the hook-up. And we get to spread our message to people ... the Share links, and I think, as I said before, that everyone won. But that was the beforetimes, and some things have changed. Facebook has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being ... I could have possibly felt as I sang and danced as Bail Organa, Lobot, an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and perspiration. I am probably not made for temperatures higher than eighty degrees

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  native to the Indian state where my family is from, and [annotation note ... , this show did not meet my expectations. It did many things well and is ... issues that have prompted me to think about my culture and where I fit into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  's house and played Guess Who with the extra rule that you couldn't ask about ... think it would be viewed as strange if your person and Maria dated ... ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you ... ’, whenever aang enters the avatar state we see all the past avatars? that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  longing for the “chill and settled” state-of-mind SSSs had since say ... probably focused on getting into college, and much of your life may have been ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and

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

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  . What an amazing state you have! (And I honestly didn't mind how hard it ... our senior bloggers Bryan, Sam, Mitra and Jessie. They've been a huge part of building this community, and I'm really, really going to miss

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007