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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  't feel the need to close the door when you napped and could always find a ... it over IAP when a single became available) and was kind enough to let ... floor to our room. Built as a double-loft, this imposing structure

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is ... happens - you try to push the cart in a straight line, but at the slightest ... chaotic, chaotic to the point that sometimes you can’t push a cart down the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an open Q&A. We'll take as many questions as we can and do our best to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer ... to an MIT Quizbowl team practice at CPW and had a ton of fun, so I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC ... to help serve as a counselor for the week-long DiscoverEE FPOP. My ... , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  technical classes at MIT. I'm a crazy person. So I tried to find ways to ... multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... started to hurt to walk. However, it did not hurt to run. Then there was a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  class here at MIT, because I have always wanted to travel to a Spanish speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to ... another to be able to speak and understand the language at a realistic pace

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment"]Hosed™[/annotation] to put effort into a blog post, so here’s what you get instead. Me going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  pronoun, as if it’s been said so many times that we found a need to shorten ... valuable, to someone valuable. A similar pattern is with English “dear”, which also apparently used to mean expensive. In a completely unrelated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  walked to the other side of main campus to go to a class. The lecture hall ... Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  get into a conversation with their person next to you and find out that ... i find a more striking reality. there are no traits that are unique ... any niche topic you have to talk about MIT also has a lot of unique or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a ... had little to no interest in joining a frat here at MIT. It was a ... became a brother of Theta Chi. I'd talked a lot to Noah about the whole

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  door of the COOP to find— It didn’t budge. There was a man standing ten ... The Arts—while also giving you a chance to settle into your dorm early ... fun :)"]Red Line to Central[/annotation] and shared a pack of mooncakes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  represent like 6 hours of my life. I think I need to find a more efficient way ... blog entries might be a bit sparse over the next three months due to an ... took the train to Koblenz and took a four-hour trip down the Mosel River

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  finding a cure for multiple sclerosis. If you'd like to donate to our cause ... . This marks the end of a very good start to what will be a very good ... , which I haven't been able to do for a while. If there's one thing I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  a ten year old. "Michael, where do you want to go to college?" Say ... ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a ... wanted to go to MIT, it wasn't just a name anymore. How did I know? A lot

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  to actually write a blog. Life has been good, but busy. I’m taking ... ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule ... Infinite every weekday, slip into a touchdown space to listen to a zoom

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I ... or even some larger liberal-arts type schools, it helped to know that a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... : One thing we are trying to do is dispel the myth that a curriculum loaded to the brim with Advanced Placement courses—with no regard to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006