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• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  Frisbee". Is it art? A joke? Is it even funny? Hard to tell. But now we ... tried to make a sort of 3d "flower" of acrylic panel petals, but this was a disaster since they were fairly heavy and I didn't know how to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  , trying to remember experiences from CPW. There was a lot of information ... . Additionally, it could be intriguing to see how one student’s view on a living ... This guest post on LGBT life at MIT comes to us from Cory Hernandez

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  include visits to D.C. memorials, receiving a medallion and meetings various ... permission to do background checks," said Smith. "They cannot guarantee a ... Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring ... student groups. I'm happy to report that -- arguably unlike regular zoos -- you will notice that these animals are allowed to freely roam the campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... ; and they could use this information as a new technique to measure black ... into the place to be. Other folks who were eating today's delicious gumbo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  to a video you posted last year about your room.  I can offer you some ... New House a couple of years ago due to an extensive renovation effort ... dorm on MIT’s campus that year was a steaming pile compared to all

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate ... label. The end. It's actually a bit harder than that, because you have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  the other half thinks. It turned out to be a really interesting ... . After that I went to a session on Interviewing Techniques, which is useful ... his pictures are better. In the end, I learned enough to receive a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through ... hard, and crafting a personal identity that you love is supposed to be hard. or maybe “supposed to be hard” is a poor phrase to use, but what i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  myself to find my way on my own. Thankfully, though, there were a few signs ... backtracked a bit until I found a detour to the road and walked along the street ... stressful. The next morning, I felt adventurous and decided to explore a snow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry ... (EA) applicants. There was a definitive resolution for those students

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can ... family. I’m going to a whole other area." Graduating with a 4.0 GPA ... doesn't mean you have to be a certain way, I have to be a fighter, sell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  love what we do, connecting world-class students who have a passion to ... reacting, we must recognize and learn from two elements that may seem to be ... don't expect our applicants to be perfect, we do require them to be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  posting this blog [and being home for a week for Christmas], I listened to ... I always want to have the full picture before I make a move. I want ... told him to go to Nineveh [a very anti-God city where Jonah’s mission

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  you’ve never used a power tool - well, now’s the time to learn! Our ... Desk might also turn up to sing a few songs. Pinkies, on 8/28 from 10PM ... to be a prefrosh. I thought that fire spinning was *too hardcore* for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... , 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter ... show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  . A friend and I are going to be chalking the sidewalks with poverty facts, and I’m involved in the Action Challenge, which is a challenge to ... make a change- not only that, but we WANT to. Though free food as an

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  laughing maniacally. Another lady comes up to the counter with a bag. "42 ... you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was ... enough underwear and know for a fact that those two other people going to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  that it would be best not to chance it, even with a concurrent entry by ... bunching for the stairs, and made a mad dash for the gates, only to find ... spring break it would probably be hard to implement a fully functioning T

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was slightly less smooth than last time, because i had to carry boxes up three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021