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• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October ... different tech school Tired of spelling "Massachusetts"? This is just the ... , but you procrastinated on what you'd wear to the last minute. Con

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before classes begin next week. But over the last week, the Class of 2026 arrived ... where you're going to live, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT’s dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  i'm on the hip-hop dance team Mocha Moves. every February, we put on ... us. the show has 14 dances, 12 of which are created in the few weeks between the end of the semester and the start of IAP. we use the entire

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... Writing and Reading the Short Story, and 24.903 Introduction to Semantics

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... concerned when I opened the rice bag one day and something came flying at me, spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  even this winter break have been so, so busy between the job hunt from ... attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  On Friday, October 18th, the MIT Women's League hosted their 24th ... to warm fuzzy socks, there was truly everything at this event. The moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They turned out really well, though we kept killing the yeast and only got the temperature right on the third try. [caption id="attachment_46020" align

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... months ago, I had the idea for doing this post, but didn't actually know how many course lounges there were, or if all the courses even had a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... convince the freshmen that their hall is a good place to live in. We bought 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  *written by Mariam D. '20 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... before us, their eyes squinting in the glare of the merciless sun. There ... look (maybe they’ve caught a glimpse of the soccer balls). Some are

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. '15 ... adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to Canada before. Therefore, we were quite surprised by some of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the minute he walked through the doors of Volaris’ Samara offices, Tayo

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per week. (Your mileage may vary: I'm looking at you, 6.115.) The

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  I was rewriting my profile this morning - the first substantive update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great ... from across MIT, including our very own Chris Peterson! We decorated the lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  thought I'd steal a simple format from the wonderful NPR podcast Pop Culture ... week. The rules are simple, what I post needs to be something that you can also enjoy (called the Zaxxon Rule) and the post shan't be too long

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I was putting together my Freshman Spring schedule on the wonderful

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the underlying philosophy remains the same.  The Common Application opened ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013