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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... have a flag that was truly ours. None of has had clothes to wear on ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before ... through a lottery. It was in the "Plant Room," a room on the sixth floor of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  a 5.12 poetry competition, from which one of my favorite excerpts is ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  Abercrombie & Fitch? I'm willing to bet that not one of my questions is ... got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he ... were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that ... can decide to spontaneously bake delicious bread or watch a movie or ... find some neat thing happening that you join in on. Essentially... IAP is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace ... in advance of the deadline.  If one of your essays is too long, or ... .  We are processing thousands of documents right now. If you need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  inexplicably decided to watch all 5 seasons of ‘Quantum Leap’ back-to-back, which ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life ... hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... -WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  [/annotation] this semester? It truly is the best place to live on campus.) Edit: My ... House’s dog) roaming the hallways. But we have plenty of cool stuff to ... I hope you have a great fall semester! Mine is already off to a great

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  surprised to find that most of that weird feeling lasted about 12 hours or ... echoes of the time I spent on campus: I give the advice to freshmen that I ... 's kinda a chonky set of claims, huh? I want to be very clear that this is in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the ... Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... -collegiate-ness. If that's not the best idea ever, I don't know what is. It's meant to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... didn't want obsessive individuals like this contacting him, which is ... be scary. The world is full of weird people out there, be careful. So

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  there's more to the institute than numbers. The goal of this project is ... Institvte is a story about a school, its architecture and environment. Most of ... kickstarter will be successful or not. But to some degree that's beside the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  know almost the entire script of The Lion King, which is by far my ... -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though ... best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... current crop of graduating seniors but is also engaged with the the next group of rising seniors (and other underclass students) who are anxious to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange ... to be ridiculously sick on several major holidays throughout my life ... ’s Theo doing? Does he need more orange juice or soup or anything?) To put

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  , what would you like to see us do blog entries on over the coming month or ... distance of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience ... more. RSVP information is included. Class of 2014 Guestbook: Hundreds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live ... .[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus ... able to meow or [annotation note="pet snakes

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I know it's cliché, but I know it to be true. At MIT, friendship is ... on the floor of New Vassar. I have absolutely no recollection of this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  season, and there is a line to the summit past the 8th or 9th station - but ... we kept stopping on the way to reflect on the beautiful view of Japan ... halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009