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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join a fraternity/sorority?

  MIT’s Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs) include 26 fraternities, 10 sororities, and five living groups. With core principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office encourages and…
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ...   I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt ... visit every once in a while—you know, to catch up with the people I hold

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  Gregor rooms' size. I consider MacGregor as my first choice in housing lottery ... or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle asked, Can we install our own window ac in any dorm room on campus? and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... decreased in a geometric series. It is predicted that Paul would have finished ... “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  awesome little class that I like to call Toy Design. Also, if you can wrack ... more release info then. Keep in mind, I was in a very toy-oriented mood ... happening in NYC this weekend? I just discovered this this afternoon after our

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  's people who've been in the industry for decades now. I can't imagine that ... is a respectable want. CJ: But isn't it true that I can find that in ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  , and that means something - unfortunately, I can't go back in time and ... surprisingly, I actually had possessed a large amount of this knowledge in high ... evacuated my brain. Every question I missed in Protobowling with Paolo was a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the ... Engineering), and as far as I can tell, they were all quite happy with their ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but

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

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  I: Just One Look and I Can Hear a Bell Ring I live on a fairly ... watched it during a phase in my life where I truly believed that all art had ... film so amazing? Well, I can give you a basic pitch. Mamma Mia! is a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only ... that dream. I would continue the simulation in my mind until I fell

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  (and can still find) in these pages. Now that I have seen so many more ... you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a

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

  thank you notes before i go

  

  're actually in your presence, words unfortunately can't do it justice. But being around you really does feel as though I've been transported in some manic ... -eye you when you play a video in a library without any headphones in, but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here ... games. What I’m interested in is fan cultures, Internet studies, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia ... MIT in the comments section of their posts. I'm disappointed that I didn ... will be on August 12th. In the meantime, I'll probably be fighting off

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at ... and rest in our dorms, hopefully with forays into Boston for food (I did

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  ... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th ... until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis. I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  can apply. right after i get my scores? i have 2 more years in ... hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  you can donate directly to the China Relief Fund, here. I hope ... I haven't been able to focus at all today. I didn't really understand ... When I describe Sichuan to people I always mention the food, and the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008