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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  least one hug for every other participant, to be distributed at random ... outside to throw a Frisbee around with two non-French House friends for an ... , sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... ://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=GTL) -- and no, not gaming, table tennis, and library. But if you asked me for a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  , spring vacation. I used to go home for spring break, but since I don ... It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on ... Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a ... allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can ... to before. So, we arrived at 7 pm and immediately got into line to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  1. We will wait for your materials. We are not going to be mean to ... processed all materials. It may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the tracking system (even for electronic documents). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed ... " declaration. We all wish to thank Dr. Auroux for his outstanding fall 2006 18 ... Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  So I haven’t blogged for a while - again... I’m not going to lie ... ) (credits to Evie'13 for the titles of these masterpieces - and for the whole ... ’s like, most of it. Haven’t really gone to any big new events. Haven

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  really just a pretext for me to post this. Flight of the Conchords fans ... One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  to mention that I'm attempting to paint my room and plan for REX and ... sleep last night as I scrambled to put together some last minute stuff for ... shock, even for someone from New Jersey, which is pretty humid as well. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  for the filming and who were excited to participate. So, a few weeks ... below or at the ZigZag comments box. The idea for this episode actually ... Production Services (AMPS): the people behind ZigZag. Asking me for ideas for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But ... useful for my internship. I know I haven't explained much about my project

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students ... aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  years at MIT, I was always able to make time for the American Idol ... (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than ... DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  left my brother (age 16) and my father (still not old enough to cook for himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt ... , and I have to write a paper for 21A.260 and a pset for 5.60. And lead a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply. Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... a younger age is not the right course for most students, for a select

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in ... , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025