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• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was ... by the prospects of attending such a seemingly homogenous academic ... the MIT Logarithms. Let me just say that I also made a fool of myself by

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants ... depth of the applicant pool – both in what students are doing inside ... college students comprise 14% of the admitted group, and 27% are members of

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... much. Was it the unusual calmness of the bustling city of Bath that you can only see in the morning? Was it the break-taking architecture of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  of my students heard about finding their puzzle piece and the magic ... at the end of your college application journey? What's the point of ... CPWs past on the walls, and a picture of the quad near room 3-108 rested

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  -campus premiere of the documentary Underwater Dreams. The film follows the journey of four high school students from the Arizona desert, who in 2004 won ... of the winning team’s members were legally documented in the United

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

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the ... food item for the denizens of East Campus. Tetazoo takes FACs extremely ... Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... of the blogs have illustrated, school is often exciting, but when the ... GRTs on my floor - hereon refered to as B1 (Burton 1, first floor of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological ... 's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while ... as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  way through the maze of prospective employers. Some were looking for a ... company. We learned all about the structure of the company, previous intern ... night, I had the pleasure of attending Zeta Beta Tau’s semi-annual dessert

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country, thousands of fans showed up at Boston's City Hall to watch the Final ... greater excitement in the streets of Palermo. For France, though, all they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... or the whistling of the city. My destination, Brookline Arts Center ... was hours of pushing wet mud forward; scraping redness off the wheel

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... Admissions Stu Schmill took it with Woodie back in the 80s; one of his classmates, Megan Smith is now the current Chief Technology Officer of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  find MIT's Great Dome shrouded in white wrappings and the hubbub of ... . MIT Hackers did a little to welcome the Dome back to the world of sight ... Saturday, they transformed the ceiling of Lobby 7 into a massive black hole

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  residents could be shut out of the place they live and, in my mother's case ... institute-wide update on the situation and a reaffirmation of our values yesterday afternoon: To the members of the MIT community, First, an update

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if you know even the slightest bit of me, you'd know that I really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  MIT and Boston are in the middle of the actual Snowpocalypse, so what better time to whip up a blog about the beginning of classes? The lighting was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on the topic of knowledge, and from there, school. Classes have started, as ... are generally at the top of my priority list. And also, I figured that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two ... , and I'm pretty proud of that. Anyway, at the end of the game, I dove ... , but at the price of torpedoing myself neck-first into the turf. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010