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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... lifted, and this vacuum attachment moves in for the kill. There are ... outside for a (very) brief moment. We're now walking in the basement of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  it into sheet music for an a cappella group, ie writing a solo part and a part for each voice group (which, in the case of the ohms, means ... dorms, and post on social media most of the work for publicity is in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  Center in w11. Join MIT Hillel for an evening packed to the brim with pi ... Jewish." But there's not, so this will go in Miscellaneous. From: Irving ... who knows the most digits of Pi will be rewarded with a Pie! Come for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was in 1973. The ... favorites, in no particular order! PS sorry in advance for the terrible ... … the paint becomes an armature for itself.”[/caption] TRAY TRAY KO by

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  With a 17% increase in applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting only 1 in 10 ... category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  , memorabilia, and snacks for college away in my mom’s Kia Rio as the dynamic duo ... being a big family in the end with an abundant sense of unity. During the ... , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  class in the first place, we nicknamed the course "Credit for Reddit ... Dunks gripped firmly in hand)     Teaching Credit for Reddit ... Fed is), mostly, I think, because MIT students studying reddit makes for an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  't make school my reason for living. I came in with an existing, established ... experience too. I've been to DC three times in the past week, all by train (for ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  pans, mixing bowls, etc etc. So that's all for today. Tune in next time ... they're sold for drastically reduced prices. And the "damaged" books are usually in such good condition that you can't even really tell what's wrong

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  provide great communities for students that complement those found in MIT ... moved to an entirely new dorm. I'd struggled a lot in the fall—I had ... about my interests and passions. It meant something, for me, to go to an

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  that are released have an end in one form or another. For example, Tetris ... it was in the waiting area for the dentist that I used to go to, I ... had to institute an artificial end in gameplay because the idea of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  if you're an upperclassman). Let us know which dorm you get temped in ... As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers. All current MIT undergraduates are

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  model and pose for an hour while we draw them. Our sketch lengths increase ... things that can happen to an artist. It’s not that much different for ... second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  get him to care for me? I deleted some paragraphs in case someone came ... ’t take off for months—and have my hair in a half ponytail. I can see the ... An Important Summary (as it was titled in the google doc) and didn

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  homecoming game (or parade). Audition for a role in the school play. Tell your ... I have been back from my fall travel rounds for almost a week now ... south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) case last year. In an ... — a dorm known even in the eighties for its multicultural community ... four years as an MIT undergraduate, I became the MIT crew coach for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  admitted folks are excited! I just got back from an amazing week in Scandinavia and I think it's time for a little update. Forgive me, though, for ... about in the blogs all year (me included). You can follow Ben's blog for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  have included in an email to Next House, ranked in tiers from most to ... . "Feelsbox" is a local word for an open-ended question placed at the end of ... "your", the 'n' stood for Next, and the 'f' stood for— Tier 3 (In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022