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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Concourse?

  a community lounge where ideas and people come together, not only for ... Concourse is a unique community of first-year students committed to learning in a small interactive group environment with dedicated teachers
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I ... MIT? I'm a pretty avid classical violinist with a passion for chamber ... , a large, 90-ish member free-for-all choir, and the Chamber Chorus, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... obligingly gave autographs and stood for pictures. Erons '12, a longtime fan ... I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... with a cliffhanger--Ruth asking about an entry on David Hasselhoff. Well, I was having a lovely dinner of weinerschnitzel (no, really) this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  ! Want to give me a plasma screen TV for free? Be my guest! Remember, you ... 've got for you (get it? tips? in a finance blog? eh? ok nevermind). So here ... particular order: 1. Make a budget: Save for the pigs sake It's not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  MIT. If you qualify for a fee waiver, please request one. Requesting a fee ... , and hope for the best. As the year draws to a close, start talking with ... update on what you might want to be thinking about: For Regular Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  just a bit more time, but for the most part, I had figured out how the ... disoriented. For some reason, I really wanted to sleep again…but I did have a ... something wrong. For the most part, I felt as though I had a good grasp on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  about less thrilling aspects of my third year so far for a thousand words ... I took a leap this school year that I’ve wanted to do for a while. I moved around some of my extracurriculars for this year; I dropped a club I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  experiences, though. It means you get to be that person for a little bit. You ... . You get to be that person with a genius idea for every predicament. You ... tried to stop listening to audiobooks for periods of time. A cleanse, you

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  desensitizing force, for me. Ultimately I remember only a few subsequent ... favored over candidates from outside the region. It made for a nervous 1 ... After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  next week, so stay tuned. I'm just popping my tired head up for a moment ... the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... decisions for Early Action have been made. We'll release the decision date

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  for International Communication – a.k.a. English for the business ... ’s still a whole month until MIT begins once again, but for some reason, I ... beside the lonesome bus stops in the middle of nowhere, waiting for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  , one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles ... Los Angeles and a stint clerking for Glenn L. Archer Jr., who was chief ... Patent Litigation and Strategy. Moore earned a reputation for her use of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOG POST FOR A BRIEF PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ... for the frisbee at a full sprint. I came up with the game-winning catch ... decorated aluminum trash can lid for a hat and introduced himself as "Bob La

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  , my determination to put aside art for more "serious" schooling had a ... it wasn't until this semester that I took a class that made me lust for ... this lesson was that art is a sanctuary for the creator, but don't kill a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  . Awkward situations in "Shopgirl" arise from Jeremy begging for a goodnight ... a dump, travels around with a mediocre band for a few months, but ... to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  the June administration of the SAT IIs, if for no other reason than a ... for this school year's final SAT administration on Saturday, June 4, are ... sign up for the exam, while Wednesday, May 11, will be the final deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another ... fraternity as they took a group of us pre-frosh out for some Chinese food (yes ... center to visit a certain open house that I was anxiously waiting for. Meet

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and ... could've applied elsewhere for work. in another world i could be doing a ... , a member of its community, for this is the privilege that is awarded

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023