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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  application to work on yet so there's not a whole lot to do with that. This is ... all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff ... to be more and more people on campus but not the type of people you

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... Facebook group that you get to join when you're a student here that's called ... " ***** "...so apparently [fruit punch?] is a good source of red-40..." ***** on

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

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

   the international space station or the air force. this year, we're working on a medium ... classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  stranded me on a desert island and forced me to pick two bands to listen to ... to get into the city. If you're coming out to Boston on a plane anytime ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  Jeremy Wolfe, who used to teach a wildly popular Intro to Psychology class and is now a teacher in Concourse. (He's on the far left of the Team ... plate and applied his physics knowledge to explain why latke is a “

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  umbrella on a train in Switzerland last weekend. It was really a great umbrella--it had a big button that you could press to open it, fit perfectly into my small girly hands, had a comfortable strap to fit around my wrist

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  to the halting problem. You'll spend hours working on a problem only to ... slow to a crawl as you work on the same question for half an hour with no ... Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  some rocks to bang on the bigger logs like a chimp in a lab until I made ... group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the ... to have an infant within a 3 foot radius who's extremely unhappy to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  . Yeesh. That night, I tried to work on a paper but couldn't. I also didn ... journeyed to a small side street and spent the next three hours on sketching ... interests me. *sigh* A smile on my face. What am I trying to say here

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  Technology” is a delicate one, not an impossible one. I’m still holding on to ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  After a lot of searching, I’ve discovered a video on YouTube that is ... . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... Burton Conner. Recognizing my desire to blog a bit before then, Laura

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  admitted. I've responded to each email with a slightly different version of ... committee decisions on demand. But often there is not a specific reason that ... reducing themselves (and other applicants) to a bunch of numbers and a few

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  and the best way to do that is on foot. Even just a short walk along the ... the iceberg...to get a head start on your plans check out our improved ... here are some thoughts on making this a worthwhile and even enjoyable

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute ... perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three ... facility and my PE destination. The Z Center also home to major on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even ... tossed it down to me. Tugging it on over my top, I grinned, bounded up the wall, found a foothold, and prepared to contort my way to victory

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  post on her blog to let you know about some exciting opportunities for ... area, you should check it out -- it's a great opportunity to meet some ... ’re parents are also welcome and encouraged to attend. Here are a few

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... has impacted your performance in a class, or a decision to take a course ... information section on the self-reported coursework page to provide additional
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  time to elaborate on. But this is a good start. I'm a jigsaw puzzle of ... who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a bit of a culture shock that made me want to better understand my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around ... Christmas music every morning on the drive to school, but I haven’t heard much

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  habit has persisted when I need to stay up on a long road trip or, y ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... , I got the even stronger itch to make a video. So, last night, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025