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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  is stressful, try waiting for 1,419 replies.) The deadline has come ... you've made a choice that is right for you. The only thing we ask in ... The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  .upperhandnj.com) Admission is $3 for prefrosh ($6 for MIT students) and proceeds support the ... part about the refund is a lie, but the rest of it is all true.) There ... lineup of the bands competing for the crown (Tremulant & Marilee Jones

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... for each of the last several semesters. Overall, I've taken either 60 or 75 units per semester for the last several terms -- but I should

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  2004. This year, one of the TA's for that class is Wolfgang Ketterle ... Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in ... the Nobel committee for being the first to produce an efficient metal

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  observations, ask for clarification and chat with the French students on a ... Cultura system highlights the way we think about various things we take for ... Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  for not having purchased better life insurance into the humid ... naked velocity. It's dark and the asphalt is a gooey chocolatey blur ... -crushing death is sitting somewhere with me in the toddler basket of a supermarket

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  foundation is left behind, for the next generation of the MIT community to make ... *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... that have been floating in my head for the last few weeks resound once

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  for crashing into the moon."]hard-landed[/annotation], their success in at least arriving to the moon is incredibly impressive.  But don ... (or JAXA, Japan’s version of NASA). Here is where the 2-meter

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Haunt that we run for the frosh. In essence, because so much stuff is ... staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post ... Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  students begin the 27th. I'm not sure what the timeline is for dorm rush this ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to ... concrete roadmap for the next four years -- I basically re-made my class plan

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  Boston's North End and is well-known for its delicious cannolis. Over the ... motivated me to venture out to North End two Fridays ago and - for the first ... and Quincy Market. The area is filled with little stores, street artists

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  I’m thirsty for more. The good thing is, I’m currently ... August, just in time for its first shoot during the Student Art Association ... in working order before the class left for the weekend. I pulled an all

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  for the last four years thanks to course 6, and didn't find out about ... (here is a subset of the group at Dylan's Emerson recital): To crazy ... are all (obviously) engineers as well. MIT is a breeding ground for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... ="going through the archives, it looks like I missed sophomore fall, which is fine ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  as the "international symbol for Frank O. Gehry architecture." This is ... on the outside doesn't work for me, and the inside is so gray and full ... ?" Yes, MIT is infamous for accumulating a collection of unusual and (dare

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  - Dread…knowing that January is the coldest month of the year, with an ... pictures (I included some below), and go for a run. Boston is known for ... River is only a few feet away from most of the dorms, and once you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class is HUGE in scope. We tackle the energy problem from what seems like ... library" (fancy name for a bookcase in the floor lounge where people stash

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mech ... graduation. Luckily, the situation at MIT is much better -- I spent a few hours ... & Computer Science is 38% women. And even better, women are the majority of

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

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  involved with a movie that is being shown for free, e.g. the director or one ... join? I work for the Night Committee as an usher. I collect movie tickets at the door for one show, and I help sell tickets at the other show

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  on campus. The only prize for the winning team is the honor of writing ... Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities ... activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007