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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  Because freshmen are beginning to trickle onto campus and moving into ... being admitted to MIT, students are invited to CPW and get to explore all ... ), and, after some housing algorithm magic, a couple months later you are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  Many a night and moon ago, I was climbing, and my phone slipped from ... I could only watch as my phone tumbled down, down, and crashed on the ... severely cracked. I pressed power and a half-centimeter-wide line lit up; the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  difficult as there are no science-based activities at all? 3. And my term ... . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very ... process I would like to ask you (I read this post and thought that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  months here, and given the recent decisions regarding Senior House, I want ... dorms when I came up here for an overnight visit, and I didn’t know that “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... people stay on campus and take classes or work on UROPs. some people just

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  , muscle strength, agility, flexibility, and overall physical conditioning ... 's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in ... every morning and sort of played intramural (IM) dodgeball with my floor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some ... run with our mom (she was visting us), and got side tracked along the way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  build websites, share files with people online, and do back up their ... move all of our pictures out of our athena accounts and free up some room ... somebody to take over his job and while nobody permanent has been decided

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  it wouldn't be a problem. A couple days later and my online schedule ... As a freshman you will probably be taking two sciences, a math, and a humanities class. The sciences and maths are pretty standard fare; you'll have

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured ... Ryan Ist Ein Schrecklich Kellner," based quite loosely on the life and ... and kind of learned how to skate from Moria '06 and Joe '08. I was also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  May. Our fall term begins at the very start of September, and our ... freshmen (and sneaky non-freshmen) eat a lot of free food, take a lot of free ... sessions with the classic “FREE BOBA” marketing technique, and spent the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  Gabrieli. He's an incredibly intelligent and engaging professor that has some of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  set online using our floor funds! My roommate Kunal is a communications ... experience, the best provider you can get at MIT, and if you look at specials on Amazon you can even get a free cell phone when you sign up for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  was the only light reflecting over my anxious face, and no one dared ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... sent it over so it could be edited and within 5 minutes I got a hearty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  mit is sunny and then rainy and then sunny again -   two weeks ago i was leaving seattle, thinking about summertime and trying not ... a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  that uncommon." "No, parents are going to read this and be all, 'Oh good, my little Johnny's gonna have calcium!' They have banana and chocolate and strawberry and coffee and... wait, I can look them all up." "Okay, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  . Feel free to drop us an email and ask that the email be added to your ... condition if I explain and send the the research paper as the additional ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  during the summer!!   dance last IAP, I was dancing and ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... incredible experiences of my life and I cannot WAIT for the next one. [caption

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  Alright, it's been a good five days since our blogs have come online, and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... less tangible subjects, namely the homogeneity and isotropy of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  responses to an online form, comprising 27,000 text comments; and 17 self ... situation, and I really forced myself to fill out the required COVID-19 online ... campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020