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• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  as we passed it around. They say it sounds better in French - but I didn't understand a word of it. I guess it sounded pretty? Another ... wonderful. Yesterday she made chili, and tonight, we had Jambalaya! I'm going

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... contained once Orientation starts this weekend. I remember my Orientation very well; I had just come back from FLP (Freshman Leadership Program), a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  determination and a good sense of humor," he said. "I was very happy to write letters of recommendation for them for MIT, and I know that they will do ... runs a little deeper than in many of the other kids that I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  that I won't even dwell on except to say that personal finance WILL ... (after a wordy introduction). It's about personal finance and some tips I ... 's some tips and ideas I've come up with or gathered from various sources to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  "Blowing up the alamo into pieces then hiding out in the mountains", I admire ... 're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  might know from the handy banner above, I am a Course 4 (Architecture) major. I have recently completed my HASS Concentration in Course 11 (Urban ... '; this is the one I'm studying. It is a joint program between Course 4

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  being completely awol from the blogs recently. She's right, and I ... applications and selecting the class in committee. This time next week I'll be ... shortly thereafter. I'm pleased to let you know that we're on schedule to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He's kind of a big deal around here. Then one day there was this: I had a dream that I met a girl in a dying world. In it was embedded a set of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Last Thursday, I attended a Science Journalism panel sponsored by the MIT ... science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in ... . I chose to concentrate in Science Writing. In Spring 2006, I took an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could ... Whew, I’m exhausted even thinking about it! In all seriousness, this IAP I will be... - Working on my UROP in the BioInstrumentation Lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  have fantastic-looking hair all the time? Me too. I have a real entry on back order (in my head, since it got DELETED), but I just wanted to let you guys know about a program that I participated in back in high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  I've been promising an entry specifically for homeschooled applicants ... the MIT Admissions homepage. That page will launch soon, and I ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  entirely man-made. I had originally called this entry "Dirty old river, must you keep rolling?" but I figured that nobody else would get that either ... stirs up toxic sediment. And as long as I'm at it, an excerpt from the 6

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... blog entry, you can probably tell I support diversity in ice cream ... 's, and Ben & Jerry's. Personally, for ice cream, I'm all about the JP

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are probably at least dimly aware that I'm a cheerleader, I never write anything ... experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer ... quite large (I, for one, really like the larger crowds!). As a result, we ... . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up ... , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a ... 32 (aka the Stata Center) and taking questions, so I ran on over. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... Rock is not very big, and that is true. It wasn't as small as I had ... , and I was surprised at the amount of respect the exhibits paid to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  EA decisions release! hmm... not that either... I meant, it's time ... is somewhat... lacking in substance (what is Spotify Wrapped if I can ... Gangnam Style is finally not one of my top five songs this year, so I'm at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... -floor lobby -- or, I guess, there was a fancy portrait. Now there is a very different kind of portrait. I have a few pictures below; the best ones are by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019