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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  and excitement. New classes, professors, deadlines, and activities…it can get pretty overwhelming. I’ve found myself having less and less free ... MIT application and consequently, you may become involved with different

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  did #101: they earned their degrees and graduated. Congratulations, you ... Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during ... as a placemat for his jade plants. He pulled it out after finals, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  bafflement appeared as I handed my boarding pass and state-issued photo ID to the boarding-pass-and-federal-or-state-issued-photo-ID-checker*. *Do ... roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  small strip of grass between Walker Memorial and Building 14. It was ... to the animals and parts of nature whose voices are "silenced ... thought this was ironic, and worth pointing out -- particularly since MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  extremely excited to share my MIT world with the blogosphere and to heighten ... weather in Boston keeps you in shape because it can flip from warm and breezy to frigid and raining at the drop of a hat; you have to be prepared

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... organization and student-run activities, which is probably for the better, seeing as we're much more creative than the institute big wigs. While all the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... House as 6 different dorms - New House, iHouse, and 4 cultural houses ... (when you come to campus and check out the dorms for yourself), the highly

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting excited prefrosh. I also love my dorm, Senior Haus, and I’ve written about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  event coordinated by Clover Food Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. When I RSVP-ed for this event, I totally forgot I was ... Lab. And this is the inside. Clover Food Lab, which grew out of a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  record number for us and a 9% increase over last year. We admitted 1533 ... rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered 499 students a place on the waiting list. Decisions (and, for admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  and celebrations usually last for the entire day and are structured around a central theme, like flight, or pictures, and once even The Sound ... message you want to get across in a strong and memorable way. And that’s why

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  minute and forget all the answers that their texts purport to be telling ... ask good questions. To look at a situation and see that there is something going on and articulate clearly what is it that you want to know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  Very frequently, we are asked about the humanities and arts at MIT. I ... school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... Sciences (HASS) Philip Khoury, to help us talk about and address the quality

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the ... . The game was exciting, with Washington's Tony Armas Jr and Arizona's Shawn Estes having a nice pitchers duel in the early innings and a come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously ... and I each spent four hours writing three 12-bar arrangements of a ... just intrinsically awful at jazz, and this will get easier as we gain

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  northeast! Through a collaboration with Boston University's dance team, Dheem ... Hopkins, and UMaryland; it felt nice to meet others who cared as much about ... activity that compresses all of my pent-up frustration and energy and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  'umba, Capoeira dancing, MIT Gospel, MIT Dance Troupe, Steel Pan, and so much more ... which Africa has influenced art of all kinds and, with this influence ... Students' Union, the MIT Caribbean Club, and the MIT chapter of the National

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  -India program did not usually offer. They were very helpful and found an ... in the summer before my junior year, and I was deeply affected when I ... , to seek an answer, and more importantly to do something about it. I

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  , clubs and UROPs are underway, and the realization that I have officially begun working towards my degree has settled in. This semester, I took 54 units; Four regular courses and one half semester class to reach the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... ). Let us know when you've decided, and for sure let us know by May 3. An ... graduate of MIT who majored in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Mollie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010