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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  other words, MIT is overrun with math people who cannot help but speak in ... ” Explanation: The word ‘trivial’ is SO common at MIT. I don’t think I ever heard ... There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  is an easy way to do this but there are other places too!) invite my ... . invite my friends and their friends. pset with my friends. my life is so ... games. groupchats. or the og groupchats, mit mailing lists. ways to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to ... crash on? Is it selfish that I’m happy as we pass the setting sun? from

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  collection of source texts. Some of my favorites:   Crying is great ... 'actual' authors never would. The practical result is that you get tweets ... to scripts, a free hosting service operated by MIT students for the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  . Yes, that is my Chrome beanie. I, alas, cannot draw.  Despite living ... "Technique" sign over it, you'll have found MIT's photography club. And it ... , Lightroom. But this post is about a darkroom. Let's be clear: I am a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  't even allowed to read, which is lame because my little brother is allowed ... against books at the dinner table is the fact that I was so stinkin ... is, as many days as I begrudgingly dragged myself to the dinner table

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  ?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day ... Alpha Phi Omega, is a co-ed service fraternity on campus (Jessie '07 has

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... realized that sometimes bliss is not meant to last, if only so you can move

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking ... a fireplace (even if it is boarded up and non-functional, as are most fireplaces at MIT) and throwing snowballs at unsuspecting friends. But

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and ... things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  up is that I finally left MIT and started a new gig leading science ... expires), and I also get married and really start life sans MIT. Truth is, I ... , reflected to me that “MIT is not really an activist campus.” Later that year

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  written in MIT's charter), and John Reed is the guy at the helm of that ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  't visited MIT campus, is the very long (but not infinite) corridor that runs through the heart of campus. Think of it as the spine of MIT's body. There ... time to wander the halls of MIT and think about better times. So, I set

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  what happens after your laptop dies at MIT. I feel like this is almost a ... "MIT student." You can laugh at me now. (the irony is I used to be quite ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  It is crunch time at MIT. Classes are over this Wednesday, and exam ... stressful situation like this: fight or flight. The alternative is to combine ... the holidays!) Many students will come back to MIT around January 7 for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  blogging this year which is more competitive than MIT itself - and there are ... Organization) and focus part of her blogging on the work that MIT is doing ... volunteering activities at MIT. Although Chris is technically a US citizen, he

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  whatever "being an MIT student" is to them - just a modified version ... This entry is kind of inspired by an entry that Anthony wrote. Yes, I ... feel like I did - it is quite possible that this blog is about the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  ;I sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on MyMIT ... , but I don't think you got it. Maybe there is a post office ... questions my friends is, "Check the Mail Pyramid."   Now

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school. Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... at MIT – it’s a pretty groovy department! (Plus, MITWE is looking for a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022