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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  strive to: - provide a safe space for the MIT LBGTQ community, including ... has a big collection of those informative booklets for anyone to take ... talk to students, plan events, and generally hang out. There's also a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my ... .[/annotation] Meanwhile, TurboVote — a software system that makes it easier to register to ... to what look to be record highs.  Last week, President Reif sent a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is ... growling stomach, and make a beeline to the gates of heaven - also known as ... downstairs to withdraw cash from the ATM. A footlong sub could last me two

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard ... transformed into a huge sports stadium, with gigantic spotlights emanating from

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year’s Affirmations can i run MIT affirm id be so good at it 🥺

  

  a new year naturally lends to new affirmations, and as I waited for my ... cancelled due to crew timeouts), I composed a list of new affirmations ... This blog is to all the affirmers out there. Especially any that

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  to kindred spirits that they hope to live with. (A note that not all ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first-year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  residents to be on a meal plan. Every dining hall serves breakfast and dinner ... the liberty to choose to be on a meal plan or instead rely on other food ... —most students choose to brush up on their culinary skills or enroll in a lower

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient ... ...for a little trip down memory lane. What inspired this sudden ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... 'm officially a junior, halfway done with college, done with thermodynamics, and not even close to done packing. But, that's what tonight and tomorrow

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... ...). I probably won't take my SLR to snap away clickclickclick during lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... to San Francisco with my boyfriend CV, who just graduated and has a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from ... ." There are a variety of ways to take these courses. Each of the science ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  how to dance. You know what that means? When you go to a party and there ... teacher. Here, whenever I get the chance to go to a party with dancing, I ... appreciate my one opportunity per year to see a real sunset because they were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , here are some things I do to keep myself sane: Poi Poi is a member of the ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to ... the Midway slightly influenced my decision.) To my surprise, I got a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  to have an infant within a 3 foot radius who's extremely unhappy to be ... seriously think the schedules when to schedule, a recursive paradox that ... the grill and waited for what looked like a giant space-burger to cook

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to ... 171 parent-friendly events in the schedule. If a visit to the site or a ... backchan.nl, a creation of MIT's Media Lab, to let you ask questions, or vote

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  Sloan's Back to the Classroom series in 2005, a little more than a year ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to Hollywood directors to auto mechanics and constructor workers and teachers

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  words: “Do you wanna… …build a snowman?” Yes! Yes! And so we set to work. He showed me how to create the base—start with a hard-packed ball ... him Olaf. But we had to. We returned to Random, cutting through a bunch

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015