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• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us! 1. Hearing While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... also simply awesome beyond all reason (koodos to Cross Products, muy

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing some independent video production on the side. Then I came “back home” to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  've probably been waiting for: the food! Members of MINCE came from downstairs to ... [/caption] The most challenging parts of eating this, for me, was finding a way to ... At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  ’s too much technical background to explain. for now i’ll just say that you ... manner. for that reason alone i’m very grateful to have taken this class ... that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  gorgeous, so we decided to hang out there for the rest of our few hours on ... since you won't have the opportunity to do that this year, you can access ... a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need ... blag! That gives me an excuse to procrastinate for like, 3 more days ... Like all great creative people, from Claude Monet to Steve Jobs to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big ... tuesday 1987: Squeeze 1986: Ministry / Face to Face 1985: R.E.M. 1984: Cheap ... spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  food they were having. She didn’t have to cook for like, 2 solid weeks ... part responsible for getting me involved in GPI. GPI is the Global ... wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs ... part of MIT culture, that they believe in, that they wish to uphold for ... about the past. Through the past, you learn what to expect for and how to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for ... us head over to The Miracle of Science to decompress for a bit. MIT is ... Sorry to have been ignoring my poor blog, folks! Here's my excuse

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  about to pack up and leave when we saw—get ready for this—Bubble Man. I ... soap and, to put it nicely, veterinary supplies for horses. Once we got ... Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  free range to shoot thirty-five pellets however we wanted, for pretty ... meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  used to make fun of Harvard for not grabbing the prime real estate on the ... baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To ... 't bode well for my dish. Well it turns out there's a big Whole Foods

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of ... best. A difficult claim for me to make, I know, especially considering ... somewhat arrogant and definitely premature [annotation note='Link to previous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  Newtonville Books' party so awesome? For one, there's going to be a musical ... singer of the band Letter to Cleo, which provided the soundtrack for (among ... So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... that. I want the MIT Admissions Blogs to remain a platform for positivity ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  disarray for two weeks, but we decided to move its furniture around once we ... initiative and hop on Craigslist to look for one. As for my own room, I have a ... for me. Having a desk is a game-changer, though—there's so much space to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  were approaching for my final time, I finally decided to do something ... 'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did ... headed to the bunkroom, where MIT EMTs basically hang out and wait for ... that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  these reunions to be weird - and for the most part, they aren't; every ... would appear overnight, know how not to constantly be too snarky for my ... stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008