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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  into a lot of part-time jobs. I’ll need something else to occupy time ... students to help staff events and run registration—it’s only a couple of days ... iconic red jackets). One of my favorite gifts to give out is a tire

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... everyone grabs what they want and finds a place around the house to sit down ... match. A few years ago, when we had a larger crowd than usual thanks to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... help to explain a bit more. July Fourth My Summer, In Words Whee ... ... Went to Montreal for a weekend to visit friends at McGill University

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... try at suggesting a party game ("Allison can go from Harrisburg to, um ... , the other team chooses a player to get up and convey as many phrases as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course, 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... swear! I went to [REDACTED] lectures. (lmaooooo jk i'm a great student ... to 3 Class of 2023 events. One was a tunnel hunt and it was a ton of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  fragrance. It's a much more temporary smell as compared to food, so it doesn ... dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get priority in housing preferences."]having a single[/annotation] has been great

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  needed a lab class to fulfill a course 6-9 requirement. 6.115 is known as ... this kind of stuff, I wanted to appreciate hardware. It helped that a ... the lines of "a small computer" or "a single chip designed to do things

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to ... angle throughout, or you need to grip the chalk a bit further back. If you

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece ... come up with the right details to describe a character, small things that ... , and my voice dropped to nearly a whisper, finger me hissed in the space

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions ... of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I ... to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  [annotation note="I've got a final, but I don't need it to graduate, and I'm sure it ... Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a ... very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice ... courtesy of straightforwardness? Wouldn’t it be better if he had a chance to ... , we struggled through a problem set, we sat next to each other in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General ... have a flag that was truly ours. None of has had clothes to wear on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to ... , according to Google Analytics, but no one is commenting, so here's a place to ... to drive up to a meeting in a few hours, and I've got a sprint

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  “particular problems’ but to develop a new vision for the act of problem solving ... to drive back home only to head into Boston again a few hours later for a play at the Cutler Majestic Theater. The original plan was for me to

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011