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• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list helps us manage the inherent uncertainty of not knowing how many ... about what the fall semester would look like (due to the pandemic) and how ... best decision for them once MIT announced its plans for the fall. On July

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last ... throughout New England. Hop on board and see how to take some time off ... Donald's". Though it's a very well-represented chain around the Boston area, the food

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  ’ve found it. So instead I’m going to write about that. Last semester was ... to make changes to be happy with your situation. I think it helps a lot ... out of it sometimes isn’t a sign of failure or personal mismanagement. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  fewer people than the Harrisburg, PA metro area. OH WOW, it's been a ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a ... theoretical nonsense that you've spent the past four years learning and apply it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  ; it's a people. The weird, the creative, the counter-culture - as long ... was scared to do it right. but, i think it's important to share with the ... eventually dusted off my blog draft document and got to it. i hope you enjoy

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  week before it was bad, too, and also the week before that, but it ... weather was absolutely stunning--it was sunny, it was warm, it was an ... out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  globe. It was a terrifying moment. Feeling old got me thinking about the impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this ... figure that you might be curious about how I spent my summers (particularly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  doing? Does this research even matter?" Have no fear! Check out this list ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... . «Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  hopefully it'll give you an idea of how the HASS requirement works: 4 ... things about MIT HASS (by the way, it stands for Humanities, Arts, and ... . "How many classes are you taking?" "5 - but 4 of them are HASS classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long ... outside when it's nice out. I admired the food as I waited for Katie to come out with hers. We talked about how we like traveling and how she

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  being a student at MIT. Sorry this post is so long...it's just that I had ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... , "I love MIT, but I do have 2 questions. [1] How accessible are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  It looks like I've already been outdone with this entry; I must say ... I was there, taking this awesome picture! It's all downhill from here ... long considering that they start handing out free tickets at 7 AM. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  . It strikes me, then, how remarkably inefficient US domestic travel can ... . STEAK!! It’s amazing how Economy food gets worse and worse and Business ... the airplane. Ask for it on long flights! The JAL one, for example

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  of its interior, the magnitude of how different EC is from normal ... things so of course it’s a great mural! Fun game: count how many Dark Side ... over the years. Some of these murals have long and storied histories

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  surprised, simply because it's not how I operate. I'll confess that I spend a ... he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It ... answer. It's possible there was some more specific reason that he didn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  was being perceived through a lens of desire and not solely its simple existence. It was scary. It was new. I tried desperately to fit different ... thinking, "Is this it? Is this the love that everyone had talked about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  , floor pi alumni. and it's neat how i can say, oh, wait, nelson knows about ... , i had an idea about how to solve it, but when i tried to write it up ... , what its like here. i want to convince him to apply. i want to comfort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  LONG MOVIE! We were wiped by the end of it. It didn't help that there are ... Ah, readers, we meet again. I'm sorry it's been a while. Much as ... movie about time travel ever made; it's one of my favorite movies of all

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  natural. It does not feel like pulling off a scab. # In some ways it feels ... growing to like the new house. I would come to prefer it, with its proximity ... shops, which I would come to love. I wonder sometimes what it would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021