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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  a question that is easily answered when we are five or six (princess ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be, but also how much money will such a career much, does this career

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  Frank   I just returned from a 7.013 Introductory Biology ... , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... pajama pants or clothing that totally doesn’t match. Sometimes I carry a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... not to inundate this post with a couple thousand extra words. I could ... movies make it so easy to fold up a life and sew up a problem? Quickly and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  12 (the last day of CPW :( ) Chelsea and I boarded a plane to San José ... (actually, it seems like a LOT of the people involved with Stanford Splash are MIT alums...to the point where most of my dinner table was wearing a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all ... stalking him visiting his office. But then the universe decided to throw me a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  When I was a child I was a nerd. (I know this comes as a big shock to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  close knit and tend to spend a lot of time with themselves. Burton ... something called an IFAF. IFAF stands for Inter-Floor Activity Fund. It's a ... figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  has not only <a href="http://web.mit.edu/varf-ball/www/index.html" _cke_saved_href="http://web.mit.edu/varf-ball/www/index.html">a football team</a>, but also a <a href

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught ... as a photography hub, but if you look in the right places you will find a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of ... .03? Um, blogging. Duh. We'll begin with a quick video clip: [A short ... totally in favor of a professor calling me Master Snively. "What an

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be ... pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  fewer people than the Harrisburg, PA metro area. OH WOW, it's been a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power a cell phone. A cell phone of the future. We're not actually using

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  projects during this week if the class has a final. So, pretty much the ... tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a ... and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, both of which I've studied a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a dark blue pillow in the store window, just below a tie-dyed Happy Valley ... , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very ... layer-on-layer big-games in the world. It is a very important bringing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and ... .) So, I'll sell my soul a little and turn this entry into a what is basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  coolest show ever? Can you imagine yourself becoming a cardio ... world, I'm sure.) A lot of MIT students enter their senior year without a ... 's a list of the requirements: Biology: -Introductory Biology:7.012, 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006