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• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  had a perfect view of Cambridge and Boston out my window. The plane was ... , one of the speakers during my Orientation challenged my classmates and ... see MIT perfectly outside the window of my fraternity. Dorm Row and the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they ... picture of 4 out of the 12 people who came (including my roommate who ... little animals out of napkins.) Notice the huge plates of food

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12 ... athlete in a fraternity. You ride the scooter in packs, with three of your

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... by MIT alumni. Most of all, MIT provided me the accountability and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will ... in the area. some of them will be visiting every iap for mystery hunt ... the shock and denial of dealing with mit shutting down, and a lot of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the ... the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  taking a look at it. Here’s the statement. But I think one of the best things about MIT is that we are not part of the common application, which ... our application completely independent of all the other common app

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... ultra ultra math nerds, and suddenly you can smell the scent of math ... "]reckless abandon[/annotation]. But that’s only scratching the tip of the surface here

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  the episode’s dialogue remains true regardless of whether you believe in ... traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the ... an oral tradition is, it means the way this current of energy is passed

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the ... semesters; it's usually 13.5 weeks of classes, plus 1 week of exams."]the end ... , it turns out that the week before the last week-and-point-five of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the ... 's something that I see even in the very walls of MIT. I know more people here ... , athletes, and even Facebook stalkers in the student body; all of these people

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... MIT account to find out the name of your EC, and to schedule the interview

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  University, 1989, BA Sociology (Home of the Spartans!); University of Delaware, 1999 Masters of Public Administration (Home of The Fightin' Blue Hens AKA ... thoracic surgeon helping the indigenous population of the Republic of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  during my lunch hour at the Z center this summer. Clary Clish, director of ... been working since 2008 in the rapidly growing field of metabolomics ... on that! Well ok, you can, but from the looks of the research, I need

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  first CPW, too, and I can tell you that the sheer quantity of options is daunting (in a good way). Luckily the level of enthusiasm all over campus is ... call/email to us can't unravel the mystery of CPW, the only thing left to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most ... only member of the media there.  Arriving a few minutes early, I spotted ... just the first day of Charm School!  Friday's the main event, with five

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... mountains of New Hampshire. We landed at the prison, and quickly set up our ... was stationed outside of the prison, patrolling the perimeter. I was in

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  I’m sorry that I basically disappeared off the face of the blogs. If it makes it any better, I think I basically disappeared off the face of ... landed on the same day: the first day of finals, May 15. Lucky me! But I

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is ... was probably 70-80 percent of the whole course), it felt a lot like a ... /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  yourself to the many loaves of bread at desk." I was excited - free bread! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... is the only mailing list I ever took myself off of, because I stopped

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008