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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright ... were amazing. I looked around on YouTube for a clip but just couldn ... tube-age? BitTorrent! I surfed around on The PirateBay for a while and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... times but we never finish it.  I used to be a very decisive person

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you ... minutes to get a snack, or walk around. I come back, and read what I wrote ... frenzy on my decision day. Why, exactly? When I forced myself to articulate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  . "Working" had a profound affect on me as I thought about work, and the basic ... Sloan's Back to the Classroom series in 2005, a little more than a year ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... seem a bit high, but that doesn't stop frat boys from trekking over to ... our plight. Sam: "Yeah, I really need to do get some money on my laundry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a ... isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  myself to find my way on my own. Thankfully, though, there were a few signs ... I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak ... -covered sidewalks. I had yet to master the tunnels and navigate through them on my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I ... alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually ... bought a few other things to go with it and yesterday I had tacos! That was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime ... tells a lot of what's been going on. What's your favorite MIT hack?

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  favorite things in my room. On the left wall above (click for a larger view ... back of a shelving unit I brought with me to MIT but never actually ... to collapse. Probably as a result, the top half of the shelving unit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  to calculate internal forces and deformations. It's a neat class ... different support structures. I'll never be able to look at a bridge the same ... can power a LED that requires 3.5V for it to operate. Pretty cool

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really ... , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... House International Feast on Thursday, it had been a rollercoaster ride of a weekend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  peers who are happy to get up at 9 AM on a Saturday in December to solve ... Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to ... Putnam, it's no surprise that the top performers on the IMO go on to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little ... . With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a ... . Budget cuts around the country may be forcing a lot of colleges to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully ... . Early Action decision day was on a Wednesday for us. We honestly can ... , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  say. But first, listen to this important message from Dan Gilbert, a ... control. As Dan's story shows, some things that seem bad turn out to be a blessing in disguise. More importantly, you don't have to go to MIT to be a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  closest mall to campus; a free shuttle leaves from Kendall square about ... able to replace it overnight. Back at home, we have a Rottweiler ... free-spirited. Daisy is now living the life out on a farm where she can

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... stay up all tonight to start and finish a stupid HASS paper." Evoking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible ... always be the city I love more than any other. It's a lot to digest, and it ... help it tell its story to the world. It's a tremendous professional

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008