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• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came ... nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , 2009 It’s very parents dream... for their child to graduate high school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can ... . Augusta, GA—It’s packing day for 17-year-old Terence Dalbert

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

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... cold for several hours (Jebby got a food coma because she ate so much ... for at least a few more blogs. You'll hear about my time at Bristol

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  back on this day, I feel a lot of tenderness for the girl I was. I wish I ... On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it, because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  right now, so I'll leave that for later. For now, I want to make a list of ... . And then there’s my cooking fails. I’m not on a meal plan for reasons ... Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  submit the form, even if you don’t have any updates for us. (Do you sense a ... 250 word limit for a reason. You CANNOT use the FUN form to submit new ... below first. If you can’t find an answer here, leave a comment or feel

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus dormitory throw a big party; dorm alumni from decades past return for the ... ) curve is Steer Roast 1990. That year, for a mere $1,000, they brought an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck ... end of the day. The sun has been down for while by the time a bunch of us head over to The Miracle of Science to decompress for a bit. MIT is

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  the 2 hours of sleep. I had wanted to take a break from work for a while ... , they'd taken a left turn off the path and stopped for lunch! Yay! Where ... a Hispanic enclave for several miles. I haven't seen so much Spanish

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ’d been eyeing for a while. I strutted around for a bit before my ankles ... mixing and matching. There was a point when I wanted desperately for CK to wear a bright green corset that I’d worn as the Joker for Halloween. He

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

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... My breakfast last Thursday: a Red Bull and an antibiotic. That's the ... month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam-the-game was a series of 5 games played over 5 weeks. The first-place winners of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  rolled around for a bit and Orion retreated into the kitchen and hid under ... in and be in there for like fifteen minutes when all of a sudden I see ... enjoying it for maybe fifteen seconds and I’ll be like, aw, how cute, a nice

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  ’ve written a blog for MIT, and I really don’t have much to contribute.  But I ... , here I am. Blogging for the first time in three years. A lot has changed ... I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday for it, and the article is pretty ... for me. Here's what she emailed back: So sometimes when I'm modeling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  hoping for at least one 5 AM rest; And I with my physics, roommates with their chem, Had just settled down for some quick SHM, When out on the ‘net there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a ... or modifications due to a disability, please notify the physical ... entry on PE classes and my previous entry on training for the Boston

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low ... holding a p-set party for myself that's lasted about 3 to 4 days. Sounds

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "Hey Ruth ['07], I need a did you know?" "Oh, those are ... 's name is Quicky... that could be a did you know." So I just got this e ... Chemical Engineers, which I'm not even really a member of. From: Maxine Date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  thing. I think it's worth it for the read! Overall this class has been a ... Course 4, all you need to do is find a supervisor for your study, and then ... This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019