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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I take every chance I can to drop by Central Square and listen to a few hours of wonderful original content. But before I continue you may be

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... and Planning. When I RSVP-ed for this event, I totally forgot I was ... the Boston area. Here are 5 Random things I Learned 1. Food trucks do

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  should look equally good on a desktop, laptop, tablet, iPad, Kindle, mobile phone, iPhone, whatever.  What do you think?  Let us know how it ... ;Superstorm"?) Sandy, we will be flexible with your EA application materials.  I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at ... floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... cats. I think you know where this story is going. Derp cat really likes

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible ... a positive feedback loop that generates entertainment. While I don

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... breast cancer, or maybe it's because I’m reading this great Pulitzer Prize winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  The Forbes blogs broke an interesting story early last week that I went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to ... blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  Just the other rainy spring day when I was making my way across ... BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... bunch of string. String? Looking up, I made my way past large equipment

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  dance as I did. As the host school, we didn't actually compete in the contest; we did, however, perform the opening number: I'm really ... seriously feels as though I spent more of last week in dance practice than I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  I don't know how familiar you are with "Wolfram," but I'll assume you ... smartest software I've ever seen. What does it do? It does math. Easy math ... decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a ... schedules and then we can feel accomplished. I present to you, my weekly ... ever, 2.005. 2.006, just like 2.005, has the potential to trounce me. I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  know that stuff from the pamphlets you read over and over again (I'm on ... do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of things I've done thus far for IAP not necessarily in chronological order

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  MIT thinks that it catches on fire. On more than one occasion I've found ... stop blinking before heading back into the dorm to resume whatever I was ... knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... slipping? I've played with my tablet and written up the answers nice and ... omega. Here's my solution: This is just one of many problems I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  !!!1!!1"? ;) Anywhoo, I'm an Associate Adviser this year to 5 froshies, Jeremy, Orit ... and today, and I thought I would post some of the good things that came ... homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... a category, I noticed that one of my options was "Early Action Versus ... figure, I guess that's the label I should pick. I've also tagged this as "Q

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  anyway, so I don't think this is such a big error as people make it out to ... completely honest, I would say that 75% of the movie is not based on the book ... hall. Lecture halls in that format aren't common at MIT (i.e. long table

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  Tomorrow, I expect MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, will publish ... 's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1 ... from last year) and 730 critical reading. But I think that this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... stress? I walked into my room one day to find a very strange and startling scene. I knew, the instant I saw it, that the stress and pressure of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008