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• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower ... Square a return to Chinatown, where I bid Sam farewell Special thanks to ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  7 to begin the hunt [12:48 PM] Now in Baker starting to solve the puzzles. If you want to join us: Come to Baker 6th floor for live action. Join us digitally at: Go to: http://headquarters.mit.edu Username

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MTB Party Pic & TechTV CPW Coverage Some fun ways to remember the weekend...

  

  update before I depart for a few days of vacation... First, a big thanks to ... fun reliving the memories, and I'll talk to you all when I get back next ... Hi folks, It was truly AWESOME to spend lots of time with all of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient ... said "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy." I'll add to that only ... ...for a little trip down memory lane. What inspired this sudden

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  , and… I get a break. Or I let myself take a break. A real break, for the ... considered a gap year in pre-covid times would have been to give myself a break ... myself for another year? So here I was, trying to get ready to learn again

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  than intended before coming back to campus, I forget that there’s a world ... is a college campus where events and famous people will often come to ... out to New Hampshire to do this? Wouldn’t it have been a lot warmer and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  class. Lead a life someone would want to remember. No matter what anyone ... This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand, I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like ... is that you get a masters in just 1 additional year, but right now my ... on my resume and not the PhD. While this sounds loony, I've talked to a

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our ... that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow me to explain. In a selective, competitive, holistic, merit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  'm not here to get you to buy a CD. I don't care if you come to my next ... exists to get people in a circle? I believe in the power of human ... Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... starters, Lobby 7, the entrance to MIT from the road, was transformed into a ... well as a brave soul ready to be shot out of a cannon! Something I think

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  just waiting for me to bring him home. He keeps a very watchful eye as I sleep and dares anybody who walks by to have a staring contest with him ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  was turned off by academia, and wanted to explore those interests in a ... Louis-Rosenberg and Jessica Rosenkrantz take it a step further by actually ... program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  sacrifice meaning for a word limit, so they went over -- some by 5 words, some by 105 words. Unfortunately, there's no "real" answer to this question ... application has been posted. You can request a paper copy, download a PDF, or

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... it ended in a Red Robin in Central PA rather than Rice to Riches, New ... for no other reason, because I got to have a 13-word conversation with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... before going out to dinner. Running is a great sport, but no one ever chose ... ’ve had a lot of chances to practice!). We are at Ben ‘12’s house for dinner

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free ... considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  science, and mathematics majors united by a love of cocoa - and close to 500 ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  planning to post a quick blog entry; I recently saw this amazing TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk by MIT Professor Pattie Maes about a ... working hard to prepare and plan for the weekend. If you're planning on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010