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• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... see what happens. “Just see what happens, Mom? I have a plan for this ... goofing on collages. “Ok, whatever, I was just trying to help.” Because I

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  I've mentally partitioned my time here into "eras" with defining ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  I might as well tell you straight away that this story ends with Lady ... 's Creative Director (whose name begins with “L,” I believe, and ends with “ady ... instant Polaroids just like Grandma used to do for her scrapbook. I still

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... me. Ever since I got to MIT I've wanted to see a Great Dome hack, but ... dome. I couldn't help, though, feeling like there was something more

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  . I am officially the Conner 2 authority on anything colorful and plastic. How did this happen? 2.00b, Toy Product Design. I've blogged about it before, here, and I'll probably blog about it again sometime in the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  humanities at MIT is non-trivial. In fact, I have just proved this fact in such ... student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... that the humanities don't unfriend me on Facebook. In my endeavors, I am

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for ... your hands, don't let the rest of the world pass you by. I'm sure it ... ! Now I know you're probably thinking "but Chrism* I spent 2.0X10^6 hours

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... just downright cool about having an @mit.edu address. Now, while I don

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  . Thanks a lot!] I read the blogs a lot as a prefrosh. And sometimes, one or ... while, and I would look down at their page over my absurdly high nose and think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  [By Anjali T. '09] This summer, I didn't happen to pull off what Jules Verne was envisioning, but I did spend eighty-three incredible days ... , but also because of what I was doing. I worked in the Laboratory of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  I bring greetings from "the little redbrick school up the Charles ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in are all at Mass General Hospital. So really I'm more across the river

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  demolished, monkey skeletons were found in the rafters. I got this info from Sergeant Pepperz on a Boston Duck Tour I went on this afternoon with Tau Beta ... chairs that plan events like these at huge subsidies. One thing that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did ... before 11AM. Go ahead. Start throwing things at me while I rub it in. I ... teenager, I unconsciously start tuning out the ends of all of their sentences

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last 24 hours I finished two problem sets, read four articles (one of which ... by three hours of MedLinks training, but I got pushed off the front of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... wonderful things for education in this country. While I was in Reno, I also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  This morning I got a frantic call from my mother. MOM: Is it true ... , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY ... morning I'll be getting another phone call: "THAT IS A FAMILY SECRET!") But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don't have any big news. But you know what I do have? Pictures of Brussels, Belgium. Because I was in Brussels, Belgium this weekend. if you happen to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  destination. In the 36 hours we spent there, I think we got to see about one percent of it. So, if I were to do a full photo entry on all of Berlin, it ... of civil engineering), I was moderately refreshed. We decided to take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  Hello all! I've been a horrible blogger, please forgive, but I have amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  So one of the questions that I am frequently asked my prospective ... topic of affirmative action in college admissions; however, I'll say right now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006