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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  months ago...which is terrible. Senior fall ended up being a little more overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they graduate, which they can (a) keep with them as they go through their four ... when they graduate to use as a reminiscing tool, or (c) lose immediately

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... many of you will do a fair amount of reading as well. Before I go too ... MIT alum Matt DuPlessie. Each year Matt gives back a little to MIT by

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it ... find an internship, a job or just find people to talk to about what you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me ... even now, as a grown man, when I go home I'm liable to wake up buried

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... excited about CPW! There are far too many events for a single person to attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game is a revolutionary breakthrough in admissions technology. Designed ... homes. The game was conceived almost a year ago, when Admissions held a mini- GameJam during the 2010 IAP. We more or less locked a half

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less ... amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people ... company.)   And I bet you thought I couldn’t find a Pok

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Leaders (NCCWSL).   I had gone the whole weekend without a picture until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Every time I give a presentation about MIT, I always try to emphasize ... like a super hero's day name? Kind of like Clark Kent by day Superman by night. For the MIT people, Tony Stark a/k/a Ironman........ Just my

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles and, most recently, a working metal lathe But there are certainly downsides. I think this comic does a great job summarizing: ___ ___ You

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and ... for a long, long while; Melis '08 wrote about it a few years ago, when ... Kesem is a free week-long summer camp for kids of cancer patients; more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  our football team is a true Division III team, and the players play for ... he was a junior. As soon as I saw him, I went to the web for a look at ... daugther, Sarah, also a senior, along on the trip to Endicott College. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  As I mentioned here, I'm taking a class called 2.670 during IAP this ... parts and a toolbox, but now that I've finished building my robot I ... used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive ... foot through many a congested intersection to the Cambridgeside Galleria in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early ... motivated enough, but for some reason this seemed like a good idea, so I went

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure agreements and the threat of prison I can't tell you a whole lot about it, but I can give you a basic feel for what I do. I'm given bags of action

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to liveblog a Ben Jones info session. Now, we've never done a joint liveblog ... , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds ... always wanted to have a brother. Last Saturday, that dream came true ... of you already know, since early September I have been a member of Phi

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing match. And this week, I went down hard. MIT landed a good right hook and I ... that you're a stronger person for it. Ok, enough of that. This post is

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007