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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to female bathrooms on MIT campus) MIT female: Also, BUILDING THREE. Average number of men’s bathrooms per floor: two…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  I’M SO EXCITED I’M SO EXCITED I’M SO EXCITED and you should be too. WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT students by MIT students…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  H. '14 actually posted about it and another advising program a few

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  The media has been buzzing about the Fundamental Physics Prize: nine physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the universe.  One of those…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  This summer, I’m working part-time at the Division of Student Life (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions – sorry eager blogging frosh-to-be, my spot’s still taken, but we’re…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved to…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I’m nearly halfway done.)…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, ’87) and I spent some time here at the Institute. My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his name,…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  Even though I’m now two years out of high school, I still keep in touch with one of my favorite English teachers – indeed, one of the best teachers I’ve…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  into Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar whom I met when he was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I’d say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You’ve got tons of things to do, as well as even more things that you…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] While MITSO, MITWE, and Chamber Chorus all have a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians, my favorite group is Techiya. As an a capella group, Techiya does not

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you’ve been taught “Don’t give in to peer pressure!”–an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don’t let other people tell you…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  A little over two weeks ago, MIT’s news office released a statement on LGBQT life here. The short story: MIT has renewed their You Are Welcome Here campaign. For those…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  undergraduate early action applicants has again increased, by about 14 percent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake-up…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at MIT. Week 1: Pre-Orientation Nothing really going on yet. Week 2: Orientation The overlapping begins. Week…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I’m currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It’s too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A to Activity in…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010