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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16 ... Because freshmen are beginning to trickle onto campus and moving into their temporary rooms, what better time to talk about housing? Even though

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  ", this class focuses on how materials behave when you load them to failure ... able to predict how and when things will fail based on the materials ... guy to get to listen to my professors talk about how it all works and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  his blogroll to find interesting things. I can't overemphasize how ... 's a step in a proof I have trouble motivating, and thinking about how to ... aspects of) the world. What's not to love? As for how I got interested in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with the assistance of the MIT guide to residences. One major component of this process are the so-called Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... together. I found this video on how to make balloon bowls using sugar ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player. How to cheer very loudly on the sidelines. I remember the only time I ... , psets, long to-do lists. I've realized - better late than never - how

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  about this later (: 2.671: Go Forth and Measure- A class about how to ... ! It's a great class because it teaches you how to measure physical ... stuck out to me because I enjoy blogging. It's all about how journalism

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even ... Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  Challenge is meant to be just for fun, and an interesting way to see just how ... students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match ... of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  least that's how it works at East Campus. If you don't want to stay here ... , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer housing is available to basically any continuing undergrad -- the cost is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  will become something I never live up to, how in a couple weeks I'll post ... gathered to recount their days. One says they cried, one says they laughed ... fall down, sky turns blue to grey The freshman will forever cease to live

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  cringing about how stupid I look. I started to understand how my theater kid ... offput by this assignment. I didn't know how to feel about, well, being ... all super positive and fun to read. comparing how I felt performing the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will always rise on my worst of days during my best of times no matter what…

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him :) (Thank you, Dave!!) He was scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m., but the doors to Kresge Auditorium opened half an hour earlier. When I wandered into

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  ) those same ECs spent their afternoon finding out how to be even more ... Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West Coast. After an early morning trip to the Manchester, NH airport (that 4

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  myself how to use Photoshop for scientific applications today. Check out ... housing lottery, it's a good idea to pack a suitcase with about a week's worth of clothes so you don't have to unpack and then repack your temp

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... people asked me to elaborate about what non-meal-plan life is like. So ... who want to start cooking at MIT. Motivation The most basic meal plan

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  to my native language. Here, Will and Kristina talk about how they ... Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the ... surprise at how much I knew. But after coming back from that 2 week trip to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015