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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  sclerosis, aka Lou Gherig's disease. The challenge is to dump ice water on ... the video onto social media with a list of new nominees and a link back ... , according the ALS Association's website. Reif dedicated the event to Karolina

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... many people are taking on additional responsibilities at home to protect

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of ... 't. One that struck me a lot wasn't even something new, but something that ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  I have a friend named Charles Guan '11. He was my lab partner in 2.004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always building something scary that does something awesome and it's fun to see his

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  #3 on it), Alex Doonesbury is officially going to MIT! Look out for ... character in Garry Trudeau's popular Doonesbury comic strip, will be coming to ... comic's readers to choose among MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... Institute for Basic Research, which is run out of a PO Box in Florida. The new ... to incompetent peer reviewers. And that is how science works. To take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2012. We received over 50 applications for four spots. Over the last week and a half the ... decide we did, and now...we have new bloggers.  Introducing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into ... thought to be two safe backup options: unpaid laborer on an organic farm in ... full $900/month rent), I finally received two dream job offers on a cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  know that becuase u will have a vast eastern culture to discover, and the eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi ... , but during Campus Preview Weekend, I do get to put a lot of faces with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  scores on the app. Max K. wrote: I won a full-scholarship to the ... test and saw a huge improvement and I think I might be able to improve on ... we have your official scores. Feel free to drop us a quick email with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  , money transfer, mapping, etc.  Without further ado, here's a quick guest ... a bit. This year, the 1985 movie Back to the Future has taken over HackMIT, in our 2017 theme: Hack to the Future. On social media, the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  ]. On a simpler note, you’ll discover pretty quickly how you fare on ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... comprehend my state of mind back then. I want to have a conversation with that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  day (on a free ticket though – redeemed through my miles). I had to go ... boarding pass for the IAD to SFO leg (I had a layover at Washington Dulles on ... traveling with friends who didn’t want to eat. On a very rare occasion, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  we depend on a legal infrastructure that also allows other sites to ... . Here on the blogs we try to give you a sense of what life is like at MIT ... a comment by me, or the admissions office, or MIT on the politics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  trying to settle into a completely new environment.  Now, I don’t say this ... wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be ... our medical facility on campus.  Maybe you need a checkup, or to get a ... -trained over-the-counter medical dispensary, a listening ear/shoulder to lean on

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  , tenacious MIT students we all strive to be, the four of us decided that a new ... FPOP friend to paint a comet mural in New House, and even tagging along ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  's a junior/senior level class focusing on website design."]6 ... feels different now, I know that’s going to be a whole new world. But for ... friends, going to new restaurants and having some fun on the weekends

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011