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• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  better. In the days and months to come, I would like us to find meaningful ... normal day, we'd be gathered in Killian Court, and I'd be kneeling on the ... . And I know that, in this time of tension around the pandemic and rising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... Adventure Time followed by Bob's Burgers, two shows which I've never seen ... people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  would highly recommend this place. The restaurant is called Bay Leaves, in ... .) In other news, Rush is in full swing! I've been helping Chi Phi, but ... back-up into the pump to save some time. Since I thought the driver was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... homeland, I would lose a new life. To even imagine what the undocumented ... of four high school students from the Arizona desert, who in 2004 won

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  runs a little deeper than in many of the other kids that I have interviewed for MIT, and I wish them the best of luck and hope that they stay in ... existed when he arrived here four years ago. "In ninth grade, I only heard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film ... would unfold and that’s ok. Remember, we ask you in the application essays ... This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  As you know, I've been traveling frequently these days, and the trips ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles), which I'm currently reading. So, I sit here on Amtrak with the book, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  world would not have agreed. I wasn’t thinking about all of this when my ... NIgerian chemical engineer would dance so provocatively in so little clothing ... ieYk It was (and is) incredibly arresting and compelling video, and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone ... degrees Fahrenheit, which isn't even high in sauna standards; but I was ... escalated in temperature until it was too much to handle. I also clumsily

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  final presentation I will be in part presenting on Monday, so that'll be a fun blog). In a nutshell, I've been working with my team to try and ... , I think that's something MIT looks for in their admissions decisions

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  challenging. In 2024 I developed strength and self reliance. Obviously it ... that I am beyond grateful for. But in some of these lows, I grappled with ... , relationships, etc… and then choose what deserves a place in your life. I think my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  thing I've ever encountered in my life and the work and content is ... MIT competitive? As said in my last answer, no. I do not think MIT is ... what I have to be and do in college. In high school, I think you have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  experience that I would rather not talk about. Restaurants took a huge hit due ... creations in my [annotation note="No, I am not working, this is just a jo ... in taste, texture, and salinity. Here I recreated another one of Thomas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  more energy efficient. I did theater tech in high school, and ... . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... mindless procrastination something cool from MIT. Also, I'll be telling the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid”s cartoon? ARTHUR: (bristling) If I were in a cartoon, I”d probably be named ... passengers to be seen in Mr. Conner”s taxi cab, am I correct? ARTHUR: I guess

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  from throughout the duration of last year that I would not have any ... . In perhaps the msot culturally aligned experience I have ever had ever ... Story About Muti") in January, I stopped for lunch at a Chinese hot pot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... I probably won't be in a few weeks." (Unified is a legendary class at ... Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions below in the comments, all the way through midnight tomorrow... If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  ranked second in my class and I applied at several out ... of the reasons I wanted to go there is because the smartest kids in the ... how some people that are smart look down on others." "I would feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008