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• 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
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks ... microloans and microfinance. Relatedly, you really should check out the work being done at both the Poverty Action Lab and the Program in Developmental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly complex to say the least: non-linear differential equations, hyperbolic sine

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip to the next pictures from there if needed!) https ... . The screaming kind’s pretty cool.” Last week brought me to Copenhell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that, as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all-to-plausible possibility that I wouldn't have the time, energy, or resources to continue to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A ... yourself" means 3:47 The "what do you do for fun?" essay 4:37 The "what do you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] The entrance to the new Central Square Theater. (Photo by CST) I had the chance to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of ... favorite section is the science notes, which include Charles Darwin

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms ... out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  'd say hi. We began RA selection on Friday morning, with the official kickoff meeting. By 1PM the committee was looking at its first applications ... I arrived at 8:30AM on Saturday morning, the Infinite looked like this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006