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• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin and I drop it off the Green Building which is 295 ft, how far will the

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  , everything you see here is made out of glass. Side note: Don't ever go to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  I'm spending some time at MIT seeing friends. I've been on the east coast for about a week seeing family and will be gone for the next week as ... . Hope all is well and enjoy these fleeting weeks of summer :-)

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  study area or intended program of study at MIT. If a summer semester is ... Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for many of MIT's underrepresented minority students. OME's mission is to promote academic excellence, build strong communities, and develop
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to ... 't really identify. so here is a guide, for those lost. this emotion is ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in your head. this is fear. a close cousin to anxiety, but not

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , which is a casual conversation about you and why you like MIT for an hour ... said MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts. You might not notice it as ... ramen burger that I (and my girlfriend, who is also a MIT alum) made last

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  Hungers is what I like to call “the Iron Man Problem” of MIT graduates (a problem that I have probably contributed to). The problem is that, as MIT’s ... -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with the world. There's too much happening to keep up with everything, and it seems like nothing ever seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  Southeast. Meanwhile, according to ReliefWeb, there is flooding across Latin ... than their application to MIT. These kinds of events [annotation note ... an FAQ to explain what to do if your application is disrupted by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  have received something that she's made in the mail. Holly is a Senior ... reason I love working with Holly is because she's always down to try ... the interview below:       This is the first time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard: These last few weeks have been so incredibly awesome that it's been

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  7 I've been studying pretty much non-stop. The final is on Monday ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in ... - it loves taking pictures outside and the digital zoom is pretty good

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow. We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  TV. But the never-ending battle between the two computing platforms is ... , however, is about making the switch from high school to college. If I had ... college is trying new things, exposing yourself to new people , and exposing

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  the MIT East Campus dormitory, all from the same floor. My objective is ... didn't mean that I don't like it here! It's just that MIT is located in a ... . House management requires the rooms to be vacated unless a student is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Vindicated! And the summer of FREEdom begins. (Pictures added)

  

  concerts? Tomorrow, a local radio station here in Boston is sponsoring a free

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for ... , Super Fly, One and Only, MIT Marching Band. This picture needs no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  Hi folks, I see in the comments from my last entry that MyMIT is telling people that decisions have been mailed. I've asked the tech folks to look into this; I have no idea why it's happening. Selection committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  . Weekends have been staying relatively free, which is great. I went to Boston ... , parents, alums, and MIT staff so that the students could ask questions and become better acquainted with MIT and each other. There was food and drink

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006