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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  , or characteristic. Some undergrads spent their years in high school ... television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical ... , in between classes and p-sets, it seems to be all I want to do, and at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... she has ended up in her worst timeline. Though meant to be comedic, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  or ideological bubbles.   Wikipedia took me to the article on ... resilience:   A spring can be pressed or pulled but returns to its ... changes us in complicated and difficult-to-explain ways. During CPW, many

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to ... one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general ... that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  flow external to an animal in motion, and the internal flow of blood, gas ... change in living organisms in response to biomechanical principles. A ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  students tell it, school is school, rarefied or not, and so they expect to ... .C., but my meeting was actually in Orange County (well, Orlando/Winter Park, Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... walking in those furry two-foot-long shoes, you have to complete the ... freshmen trip to the New England Aquarium.   In the aquarium, it was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  . College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... starting to think I'd never find the warm live-in community that so many people seemed to have in college--but I ended up making friends with the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Clay inside a television, or what this has to do with TV Guide or why it ... quickly surf away in embarassment? Did you then look hesitantly to the left ... Doves Cry.. I'd heard this like a dozen times in the car driving up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke ... . Relatives flew in from everywhere, and were seen passing through East Campus ... . Numerous posters in the Infinite advertised concerts, dinners, and movie

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  residential campus. In general, I recommend waiting until age 17 or so to apply ... potential of students majoring in science, engineering or other MIT ... will be encouraged to participate in summer internships and bring their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  to us both? I was never sure — and say, in English or Danish, "lift her ... , the biggest music festival in Denmark dedicated to metal. Tickets have ... ’re in a space too big to explore all of it.  Before entering any crowds

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to ... interesting place? Or to how much I do compared to those around me? I feel that ... obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  41,207 minutes listening to audiobooks in 2023. That’s 686 hours, or 28 ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs ... consumer. No thoughts, just a constant stream of words going in one ear and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct ... background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some ... able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  direction and get to a massive park or walk 20 minutes in another direction ... clarification on something, he would pause mid-task to help me unless he was in ... slightly less to say after the first month or so. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the ... having to explain to her that she would still be well fed and protected in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we got there--nothing too bad, though. They tapped us in to make sure that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022