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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  BREAKING NEWS: Stu Schmill '86 Named New Dean of Admissions - go wish ... middle end of the spectrum. On the one hand, it's an entire week without any class. But on the other hand, most professors still expect us to put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV.) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP ... laugh) My primary mission is to start working on my new project in lab

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  on, it’s something you explore yourself. And if you spend the next few ... students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a modest number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  ...we've been graced with a fire truck on the Great Dome! In case ... of my dedication to bringing you interesting campus news and rants, I ... hope, were asleep. But the batteries on my camera had died. Sadness. But

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  If you've haven't yet read about (or danced on!) the MIT East Campus ... to the website Then read the News Office article Finally, watch the ... check out the Disco Dance Floor and hung out for a while on First East

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  a urop,[annotation note="lab assistant, aka office hours staff"]la ... needing to move on to the next thing, and the next thing, and only in that one hour i steal from work each week on friday afternoon having enough

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... a certain group on thefacebook. And then I realized that thefacebook ... 't usually work on weekday afternoons: packages come in! And then you have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  hoard of posters on the wall last year![/caption] today i’ve finally ... [annotation note="live on stage theatre; group that puts on live plays ... today yesterday [annotation note="so i started writing this post a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... for the semesters to follow, I can't help but look at the path ahead as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  helping us is extremely nice. The peach boba is almost like a slush. It’s different but I love it.  We decide to go to the Barnes & Noble we saw on ... teaches Bhuvna some dance moves as Neil works on his [annotation note="6

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  Principle. A few blocks later, you're dodging taxis in Chinatown and on the ... money and stuff. In all seriousness, I lived entirely on free food for my ... the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  staring wide-eyed with smiles plastered on their face being carted from free ... he actually swung back and forth continously! Meanwhile on the other ... . They can have a similar temperament. But the true cremé de la cremé of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  wealth of activities on the IAP calendar with my busy schedule of turning ... night, so I guess it was a jorb well done. A pox on Jeremy and Javier for killing Laura and I (the two inspectors, no less) on their first turn as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room ... ' living room. It's not a big apartment; it's probably too much banana plant by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  ="Residential Exploration, better known as REX, is a multi-day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX ... create our own culture.” - Lisa “I don't even live on M3! It was a twist

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the core team that helped set the early cultural conditions and priorities ... prize utility, practicality, serendipity, exploration, and fun. What you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got ... a big group of new cheer recruits, but I am just thankful that today

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  put more cards in your deck and earn gold that can be spent on shops ... amount of block you have. One of the biggest lessons I learned in ESP is ... was really happy when I got a problem on an HMMT test, and yeah, people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  Hi world, it’s me!!! I haven’t been writing on the blogs much because ... on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... ’m working on now, I’ll eventually get to a point where I have the time to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... dangerous activity. I lived in DC the summer after my freshman year here, and ... ask if he could please get on the internet and find where the subway

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005