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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... orientation? Barely any groups volunteered the information; but one did, and I ... plan on staying for the foreseeable future. Though it was fairly easy

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his ... yawning and fidgeting in small hard plastic chairs under the harsh

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  , have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in ... to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two younger brothers went to college. Since the youngest Peterson will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2 ... Cantonese as soon as possible, since this is probably the most useful Asian language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began in Salt Lake City. I decided I'd take in the sights before my meetings

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of the regulars have insisted on calling me Nance Nance Revolution (NNR). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the ... , however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks. I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

   (THE gaming convention of the year). you might also know that e3 is in ... studio...connecting the dots yet? i actually had a wild ride with e3 ... immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... , if they're me. My friend Daniel '12, on the other hand, used his list

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  ” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a ... today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  Taxes”. It’s a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities, Arts"]CI-H[/annotation] philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The class looks at moral and social questions concerning the human experience

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in various locations around the world"]GTL[/annotation] in Kazakhstan, I ... Kazakhstan for GTL. Doha was the most common layover when traveling to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  worth trying anyway: best to get comfortable on campus before the ... that I got accepted as a blogger while packing). The 3.5 days of DEW, also the first days of college, were intense. The East Campus Head of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  The pre-Spring break week is always a nightmare; a friend summed it up nicely when he posted on Facebook today that "the differential in campus happiness between today and yesterday is the biggest i've ever seen

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... chromatograms at the drop of a hat. There will come a time when there are just no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... characters, brushed up on Japanese geography, and drilled myself on the grammar ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  't read or sometimes even sleep without doing "errands around the web" every ... . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... while on the toilet. Blame it on all those apps for everything you can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  at least as normal as things can be less than two weeks before the early action deadline) As Ben has already noted, we have extended the ... Counselors (ECs). The deadline to contact your EC is now this Monday, October

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  and bike across the Golden Gate bridge. Now granted, full-time residents ... have rented by the hour from Bike and Roll? I think not. The hardest part on the whole route was once we had crossed the bridge. We had

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006