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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of literature (at least, until the motion picture starring Johnny Depp as the ... . (INVESTIGATOR PIERCE, a portly, middle-aged man with a unibrow for absolutely no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester ... , on making paradise for CPW; or spring break adventures; or the way that ... adventures along the river or at dances— they're real. I could write that post

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  -traumatic experience cross-registering for an advanced physics class at my local college ... ’t think about physics at all for the first half of 2020, and then I got to ... course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  Netflix for eight hours and it's completely acceptable because, hey, at ... my god WE’RE NOT AT MIT!!!”  i’m really grateful to my class for ... and beautiful enclave where it's okay to fail at being real adults, a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  , for all it's glory, is no longer my home. Danny B. '15 wrote about how ... terrible things at me, and the only way I could find myself reacting was by ... step at a time, with a lot of help and a lot of strength. And one of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  again, or at least for a very very very long time. Also, now I'm terrified ... being in a hospital while also managing being a student at MIT:   1 ... are restrictions that are unnecessary for you (I want to crotchet!!) and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... and Their Implications for Electronic Order." Don't know what those are ... + physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  Iwasjustcallingtocongratulateyouonyourearlyadmissionanddoyouhaveanyquestions?" The first few calls were just as surprising for me as they were for the ... thought of any questions or have more, please feel free to email me at connie.huang at mit dot edu or just comment on this post! I'd love to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working ... teaching creativity-building educational modules at a youth shelter in Phnom ... and the potential for the Leveraged Freedom Wheelchair (LFC) to be used

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  fixed in time for class this afternoon anyways? Susanne at the Schedules ... guys are at work” ...I'm pretty awkward for an Awesome Diva. And I ... for the Institvte! This summer I’m on staff for the Research Science

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  -looking though...those huge circle eyes. Anyways, smile! At least for the camera ... First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee (and will be coming back soon! c:) But now for the cute... the other day

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... over at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots research group. I often

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  There are no undergraduate classes here at MIT over the summer. Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all ... ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  costs less than $100, and will help monitor the oil spill's impact at a ... the coast with balloon cameras for months -- or as long as it takes for ... out and begin mapping, we'll have that data at a later date -- when we

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a ... 't studied for? Femto-cool. You could even apply it to those tricky end

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters ... with MIT (year, or year of application for potentials) anything ... your picture sizes reasonable! (so it doesn't take forever for me to load

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  experience. Remember ESP that I've talked about at some length here? (for those ... Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of ... blogged for AN ENTIRE MONTH. tsk tsk. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Truth is, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot ... efficiently. Power Electronics is, for better or for worse, about as time consuming as it is awesome, so I've spent most of the last week staring at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  Trivia: This year's admit rate was 11.9%. What was the admit rate for ... at the end of the entry] Probably the most popular questions asked at ... folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is ... colleges, like Harvard and CalTech, strive for uniform and regal architecture ... , MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008