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• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... awesome desktop image. 9. I was working on this:   It’s a wind ... ’s was, the first thing she did was pick a day that we could go to one

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  when. You can count on me, can't you? I think I eventually come to love ... MerryChef oven, a convection (maybe?) oven that's going to be used at ... on his sandwich (a product of the Maillard reaction, which my UROP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... forward to a mid-day cappuccino at the vending machine. Even the streets ... ourselves being send with our students to a hackathon in Barcelona. It feels

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the ... to see this, but it was an awesome show put on by the Musical Theater ... ! It's a 3E tradition to set out a card the day before every person

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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