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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  The past several days have been exciting. There was Dorm Rush, and ... , Nick '09, Zak '09, and Ross '09. I took some pictures at the East Campus ... Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  room in Burton-Connor too, as long as you clear it with the house manager and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I ... couple. :) Nicole R. asked: "Do most of the dorms have bunk beds or two

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... as a summer camp that one might go to for fun and learning? Does the ... begin, in the interest of honesty and full disclosure, by telling you the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty seconds gripping the bottle over my face and staring down at my shoes ... that I got up and didn't say anything at all. Elsewhere in the spacetime

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  [annotation note="Josephine ‘24 and I led our group through the mist after ... clambered over boulders until we found the peak, looked out over a wide and ... The first day I got back, stiff from the plane, I hit the river path

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that's what they say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME) program, I was pretty excited about the grass. The CME program lets MIT and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year ... on the crosswalk? Well... I honestly had no idea the first time I ... . As usual, Steven was in the loop. He mentioned how he had stumbled upon

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  you have been checking the Application Tracking System on MyMIT, and may be worried about documents that were sent before the deadline but have ... lots) of mail. (The Wall Street Journal today is reporting that our early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And the Lottery Says…..

  

  Burton Conner. Hi Mitra and Sam! *waves* Just felt like sharing. Right now I’m off to go shopping for random dorm room things, so more later.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  The cherry blossoms are out and the students are slipping onto Kresge ... and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going to be released. I've spent the last week stressing over the question: "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my ... submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known). There were many excellent ... make our decisions. But the six bloggers we eventually picked are going

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  actually happened on Monday, which makes it the most normal day this week. Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... a five minute walk from campus. This is actually where the bloggers went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  't make it, but I'm sure with all the pictures everyone took that there will be mad blog coverage of CPW over the next few days, so fear not. And ... I want 5 MORE YEARS. By the time I graduate, I will have spent a third

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the ... are 4 of us!" So he rounded me, Keri, and Jess into the frame and had someone else take the shot. Then he sent it to me and I spent way, way too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006