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• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions ... hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is ... splits video), and the V4C folks wanted to know more about the creative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  there is so much to be explored. Can we truly model that moth flitting in ... lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle ... /CCD/computer communications, that is to say, I took emo picture of myself through a hole in a ... presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if you'll get into MIT, they don't have any formal advice about navigating ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... dinner included. Tonight we are in Destiny kitchen.   The MacBook is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  times closer to the black hole than previously thought; they see in better ... nice local laboratory to study the formation of and conditions in ... in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... in part because I wanted to study humanist/social concerns that were ... one of the best places to do it. I think you can see this theme in many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging ... , designers, and models who won awards in this post. If you want to see more ... , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  amazing mother repeated this to me almost every night as she tucked me in. I ... in the mood to learn more, even if it meant pushing. Me: “Ok, fine ... I often feel inspired when I least expect to. When I do feel

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the ... 've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  just prior to an annual event we call the Sodium Drop (I'll leave the details to your imagination, for now at least). The picture was taken from ... to the right, you'd see MIT and the Cambridge side of the river), and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really ... . The first thing my colleague did when Mail Services called him was to say "post it in Ben's blog so they know." As soon as he told me I moved

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  Association Committee on Student Life is proud to present MIT's second ... Study Abroad programs from England to Australia offer students. Add to ... ever-important ventures into all the diversity the world has to offer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  The weather in the area has been simply glorious over the past week ... Common Ice skating at Frog Pond (in a few months) Sam does his best ... Longfellow Bridge Newbury St. The new way to spell Greek food at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  looked SO interesting. In addition to these papers, we had other assigned ... having to read Powers' ATLA blog in class, which I thought was a cool ... videos for me so I could use them in this blogpost so huge thank you to him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  readers, to bring you entertainment and distraction in your final hours ... ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... , pumpkin drop (pumpkins falling from the tallest building in Cambridge

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  things at MIT? Where to live is a subject that is frequently touched on in ... another perspective to the mix. I'm fortunate enough to live in a place I ... to live in a hovel so foul it makes The Road sound like utopia, but

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011