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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends ... undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in on-campus residence
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  have been nice to have been playing outside in the snow with them ... It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work ... Mike '07, we spied out the window some folks playing in the snow in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text ... officers, to exercise individual contextual discretion in each case. The word ... related to the centrality of mathematics — and mathematics examinations — in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now ... over you // completely // talk to me now // make me believe in beauty now ... it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  lucky enough to video tape. Covering topics from why he majored in physics ... further ado I present to you "Walter Lewin ESG Lecture" in all its 68 ... wonderful, down to earth, person. Tune in next time for a life update! My

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  ... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate concern. But in honor of "Patriot's Day" (I honestly never quite figured ... project in case you couldn't come to CPW and see it for yourself), but I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day ... opposed to all things apple, I've shared my dislike and disinterest in the ... zen-like to compose your thoughts in 140 characters.

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd ... course 16 anthem? Background: In 3rd grade, we had to do creative ... and his men opened up a new door, To that new frontier in outer space

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Congratulations to the Random Hall dormitory team ("Physical Plant ... Fellowship Of The Duck Cookie Monster Dogs Playing Poker An Ax to Grind The Hunt kicks off in MIT's Lobby 7 at 12 noon, the Friday before Martin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Storm, an M.I.T.-trained scientist who specializes in genetic research... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to ... ("non-linear optics," "top of the class"), Colin Farrell's secret agent in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  -- in SOMA, to be exact. Doing some design stuff." "Oh, cool! What are ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated ... our in house developers can fathom and applying it to the gorgeous

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  Donald’s takeout in hand at 3am. I love when people I recognize wave to me in the ... learn how to face them. And you have to have fun in life. The fun is what ... ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  freshmen from living in senior house; and second, to institute a "turnaround ... the groups that live in the dorm, they are groups to which the stigma of ... could become. it surprises me to read in the chancellor's email that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... based only upon the places that look most fun to live in - while being ... critical to enjoy the work that you are doing. In my case, I found a good

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and ... , I was en route to spend another five years at MIT pursuing a PhD in ... invited to participate in such a committee; however, having gained what

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have ... to go back in time and correct mistakes or retake tests. 3. A little ... / : -verb to calm down; to release oneself from inhibition, worry, tension

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  most likely to be seen in Admissions Committee. What about new test ... in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why you were deferred ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  most likely to be seen in Admissions Committee. What about new test ... in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why you were deferred ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  been said. There was much to reflect on—in one hour, Professor Flowers ... , mechanics, etc. On the other side are topics humans ought to learn, in fields ... -saving medical machines. Completing these projects in one semester sounds close to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018