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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  into MIT was for us in the grand scheme of things, and our answers varied ... boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  . The forces of the Bogan have become strong and deadly...I am lost ... ! Luke leaps in front of his mentor, and raises his hand in defense. The ... DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... , currently on our faculty and all of them teach undergraduate classes. In fact ... in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to ... created by the entire team every so often for you all to try, and then a ... remotely next IAP. -- Come and Ride It Lost in the jungle, Joe is

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I have to do between now and the end of the semester. Lately, this last ... I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  Have any of you attended one of the Admitted Students Parties that our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and around the world)? If so, how was it? I'd love to hear how it went. Also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  many ideas, and having learned something new. This year, some of the ... of the conference, Ben and I gave our presentation about -- what else ... For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You ... As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those ... off the waitlist, and wishing them the best of luck at the college they ... comments to introduce yourself to the rest of your class. And for those of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  : Apparently CalTech flew out a crew of 20 to retrieve the cannon, and took it ... invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has ... only contracted to move the cannon here for CPW, and we respect the speed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  it. I finished half of my 2.671 homework, half of 2.008, and half of 2.004. Left is 7.012 studying, the second halves to all of those other things ... ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  , without the routine of classes and classmates and well-defined goals ... . Things like rearranging the plates and cups in our cabinet in an artistic way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these ... some equipment finagling, they gave in. And someone at the front of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and is majoring in Course ... Last night, I attended a concert by the MIT/Wellesley Toons, one of MIT's a cappella groups. Towwards the end of the concert, Lee-Kai '07

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... and beyond the scope of this unfunded research.   RESULTS Sleep and Movement Meet Requirements for Functioning For the month of March

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  (out of 7) on the undergraduate subject evaluations. (And of course, we ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... between the two of them several years ago. I almost died of happiness, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting ... 32 (aka the Stata Center) and taking questions, so I ran on over. The

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

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main point of these meetings is for us to learn about the things that interest

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... the middle of a lounge and that night i got a long message from someone saying that i was one of the people who made them feel most welcome and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003 ... differences. She has one of the most elegant writing styles and her stories are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008