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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  came to MIT for CPW, I didn't really understand what fraternities were ... freshmen to register for recruitment in the case of Panhel. Waiting for the Greek Griller to begin. At the Greek Griller Rush started off for us on

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster. Waste hours for fun, while still knowing that after, one still has just as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  importantly, the chance to play with dolphins. For me, Florida was a bit of ... preparing for the spring season.  Hopefully the river will continue to ... (global warming must be playing its part), we still trekked down to Florida

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  what the last few weeks have been like for us. Best of luck to you all ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  room, MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC) shows movies every weekend for ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each ... freshman advisee, Sha-har '09, selling baked goods to support the MIT Mock

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  yourself is going to lead to the right outcome for you. This is true in ... important in this world. And for all this passionate pursuit of excellence ... ), Portnoy's Complaint (same for Philip Roth), Call it Sleep, Don't Stop the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their ... , and villains waiting for heroes to finish their monologues? I'm halfway ... going to become a soldier and there was nothing I wanted to fight for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  full runs of the show. I’ve wanted to audition for a musical since I got ... twice a week during IAP. One of my goals for 2025 is to do a single toe ... mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  for any current adMITs to make their decision based on this post, but ... very alone and yet speaking to and playing music for an unknown audience ... One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  a great starting point for us (and for you) to understand the size of ... and far between, if they exist at all. Where they have to advocate for ... Network—which stands for Small-Town and Rural Students—and wondered, "Am I

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  Knight for like the fifth time in one year + were happy to have someone to ... stubborn pset + made those spontaneous runs to MacGregor convenience for ... to the class of 2012, and best wishes for your Commencement coming up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  's still very useful for all of us to sit around and talk about how we do ... officer more than 30 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for a single applicant to ... to students that should make the process a bit saner for all involved

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  historical challenge. Anyone from around the world can join to listen. The description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for its own sake and also for a deeper understanding of the present and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  currently at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (this post is dedicated to the ... ! The Lab for Chocolate Science did chocolate truffle making! Obviously ... ... The guys from Tep had an awesome pickle frier which counted to 255 in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... season is starting! I don’t know for sure, but I’d say you can expect to ... , they still need to fill out some forms for your app (school profiles and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  event you want to attend or star each event for every day on your phone so ... for if you fit in well with the culture there. Talk to different ... try attending a class or go to some information sessions for specific

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014