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• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is ... first time now[/annotation] because of the new BBC/HBO television ... rooting me squarely and irrevocably in the corner of Good in that old battle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  and get letters of recommendation. (By the way…I’m writing this on the train and it just broke down!!! Ahh, Amtrak, you are the bane of my ... considering applying, I checked out the bios of the past scholars and found them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  times. "Is MIT really like CPW?" The answer is, yes and no. Yes, in the ... . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... about your living group, the student groups you're a part of, your major

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  body for the first 30 minutes of the exam. I read the questions and ... A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was ... , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  laughed, turning and flagging down the guy perched on top of the wall, who ... . Welcome to REX. One of the first things you learn when you get to college ... on later, when the flash-bang chaos of REX and Orientation ends. So

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... front of the student center steps. Over 80,000 people have died and more ... homes and families, but also for the future rehabilitation of earthquake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  of November, The gunpowder mischief and hack. I know of no reason why ... the Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Though their plot was ... the history of England, largely thanks to the catchy verses that were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  , because my dorm room was on the first floor, I had a great view of the ... tour of the Humans and Automation Lab (HAL). Even though I wasn't really ... Harvard friends and I spent the Fourth of July on the Esplanade, a beautiful

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can ... . Discovery is seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time in my life. 82 ... , and gotten a taste of the MIT firehose. Nine months later, I feel like

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  relief and joy in knowing that the day ahead of you has suddenly cleared ... emotions at the time. The first day of snow finally came during Thanksgiving ... snowmen and drinking hot chocolate and feeling alive in spite of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at ... of the Future" issue. He is a proud member of First Baptist Church in ... wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across the board, people have been a little hosed here the last week and a half ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the entrance pictured as something you'd just waltz into, and the rest of the ... through cracks, or over the top of chasms that you could look into and see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  writing class, and eventually found myself emailing the professor of 21W.755, Reading and Writing Short Stories. On the first day of class he made it ... semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  chill on the fifth floor. Skullhouse is five stories and from one of the ... chairs on one of the docks on the Esplanade and sat there watching the ... 'know, advertising.   And snce I didn't take a picture of the Bruegger's Bagels

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  rather difficult one, and remember all of the good books I found time to ... the book. Although I liked the concepts of the book–sentient cities and ... every now and then he lends me a book to read about the philosophy of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  the first row of the mezzanine. Afterward, it was time for some fine ... , ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  tasked with designing their class’ Brass Rat and organizing all of the ... the first big event held by RingComm, in which they unveil and explain ... different elements of the ring design and how they came together to make a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... another taco that I don’t remember the name of, but it probably had beef and ... Office of the First Year hosts around two or three lunches with professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved ... be a lot of fun, and I was finally able to see the faces behind some of ... year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010