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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered on his ninetieth year. The meeting included almost every member ... public in New England to give way, on the ground that the Union should be

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ' take on this program because it's one of those "you get what you give ... that the hands-on approach helps this program stand out from all my ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on ... (hang on, I’ll get to that), I decided that was a perfect time to make ... eating uncooked cornmeal if I don’t get some French toast up on this plate

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... nights on campus spent tooling. By the end of the week though, it's clear ... sets in. Your beard has grown on you (hurr hurr hurr), and the two of you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  ’re apparently low-stress enough to be called “quizzes,” even though the one on ... Linguistics, this test doesn’t deserve the label “quiz,” because it’s a full-on ... have the worst grasp on the material… wish me luck! I’m also taking 18.S

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  with her roaming all over London, getting all paparazzi on palace guards ... :) ~*~ This IAP I went to the Philippines with Yuri ’10 and Anita ’11 to work on ... develop project ideas for MIT students to work on. We spent most of our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  eleven classes in one year, finished my MCATs, and embarked on the ... -minute bus ride from my apartment, where I work on developing a novel medical ... stopped in the middle of the street to see what's going on. I still have my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in ... me blabbering on in plain text for pages. Sorry about that. Something ... huddle around the one light bulb, or one candle, at one store on the corner

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact ... moment on campus… and I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to say: Mission ... 7 at 11 PM on Friday. ¬∑ When I visited the headquarters of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Hey all - On the night admissions came out (two nights ago), my good ... your field. Now, I hope you don't obsessively dwell on this blog in the future. It's time to move on, so I will bid you adieu with an inspirational

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

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... lounge at MIT where a group of people are clustered watching a movie on TV ... throughout campus (we call them "Athena clusters" - based on the name of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... ! This is on our way to the Valley of Fire, named as such because of rocks ... ... A petrified log! Because I'm too lazy to explain what it is. On

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  penthouse. The tower on the left (called the East Tower) is filled with several singles, whereas the tower the on the right (logically called the West Tower) consists of a mixture of singles, doubles, and triples. On

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  breaking the big toe on my right foot - eleven days before I was to leave ... practice on unsuspecting passersby, effectively mummifying them. I'm not sure ... chapters to read each night, and each day we're quizzed on information

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  TWO YEARS. I should get a raise for that), it's Cam's thoughts on the ... the previous run-on aside cause you to forget what I was talking about ... hated writing about themselves." Kevin and I, walking somewhere on campus

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  . One of my suitemates is on the Varsity Field Hockey team and attends to ... (like crew or sport taekwondo) are completely open to walk-ons and ... that passionate New Zealand Rugby team, and well, we live on Burton 1

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... lived on has its own wiki. And an IRC channel. "MIT is the closest you can ... least on 2E in East Campus but probably most other places too, IT IS SO

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired This has been going on for ... .10 might have been a C, but I'll never know - I took it on Junior-Senior P/D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving ... Asgard Pub on Mass Ave. I had delicious salmon which I then heated up and ... from being relieved of having to work on a 10+ year old sun machine

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... with the humanities, working on problem sets about the humanities, going ... that the humanities don't unfriend me on Facebook. In my endeavors, I am

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008