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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new ... is where I continue to work on ElectroPlushies and get them up and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  Use sand to seal the edges and let it carbonize for a while. Fast ... From the article "Engineering changes for the better in Haiti: Local activist joins up with MIT instructor" By Ron Fletcher The Boston Globe June

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  or brush it aside, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details from ... , take it in and experience it for the time that you need to. Then go on ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Jellyfishing...GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it ... Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering ... fraternity/sorority and don’t have big productions to put on for your

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... victim). Happy pi day! Brought to you by your social chairs + eva + anna ... break and attempt to recover being blasted away by six midterms and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... for some midnight ice cream instead). I have some documents to prepare ... everything else is fast asleep, out of distraction's way. I still have to do

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  by Nina L. ‘19, about her Friday night. Tonight Lujan and I went to Harvard Square to get Dominos. We had decided we needed to get away. The ... .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  wrong in a house! Studying: I need to get credit for 18.03, Differential ... Cambridge, but I'd have to search for housing in San Francisco. Also, I knew ... contractor work for them. I'm doing everything from content writing to full

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  know who you are   3   anyways fast-forward to now: I ... . writing letters i don't plan to send. forgiving myself for having days that ... funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  , storyboard, and make a sound list for a scene in 4.354. To be done by Tuesday ... sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of ... : 1 hour. Count hours on timecards to ensure desk workers get paid. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a ... , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second ... the restaurant, so I had to get even closer to my audience to retrieve ... being said, I cannot wait to see what’s in store for next year. My whole

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester ... What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh? A NEW KITTEN!!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... Admissions blogs -- including blogs by three admissions officers, the Director ... (without logging in!) at my.mit.edu. I know this has been long requested by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that ... I set my alarm for seven am yesterday and stumbled up to snooze it ... for up to one hour. It feels like being in limbo — everything should be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  's impossible to rank the events by awesome, I've ranked them chronologically: 11 ... ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... "Intro to World Music". The class is taught by Professor Tang, who is an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  The other day I learned something new. After being here for almost ... -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... perfectly reasonable direction for that conversation to take," I just want say

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012