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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New York Times, which at one point made me use so much Rails I had dreams ... Times was not at all what I expected, but everything I could've hoped for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the " ... list. Today, at 5pm Eastern Time, we will notify all remaining students ... admission. At that point, we will consider our wait list &ldquo

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  . I sent out a few e-mails to gauge interests, then replied "yes." At a meeting that evening, I found out that "host a community barbecue at 5pm ... . I called them all, and we gathered at the front desk. Familiar faces

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  continue my adventures here at MIT by doing all the things. So when I got an ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... annual thing that I do here at MIT!

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the ... World" as people want to do. Where: La Maisonette What to Bring: At least one hug for every other participant, to be distributed at random

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  at Mike's Pastry. Mike's Pastry is one of many bakeries and cafes in ... course of my time at MIT, I've had many treats from Mike's Pastry - but, as ... mainly to eat at Giacomo's Ristorante, which has ridiculously awesome Yelp

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and I had finished watching Chariots of Fire one night at 2 a.m. I told ... inspiration.” I looked at him for a few seconds and realized that he was dead

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  have not been able to go to our waitlist. Today at 5pm Eastern Time, we ... not be able to offer them admission. At that point, we will consider our ... college experiences, and we wish you all the very best at the college you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  class. 2. Communication Communication at Maseeh is easy. We have ... new people since we're a new dorm. The culture at Maseeh is also unique. Each dorm at MIT has a distinct culture and feel (which is why MIT allows

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right ... and eating half the wallpaper in my room as a four-month-old. At five ... . Pinky swear. At that point my parents stopped trying to teach me English

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  . That something is match. We talk a lot about match here at MIT ... , match wasn't foremost in my mind. Or in my mind at all. In fact, it wasn ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  figure out if they are comfortable and at home on our campus and the best ... -minded during your visit with us. I live with current students and their life at ... at Student Financial Services so you can stop in and get your questions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the ... up for preferred dining at a cost of $300 per semester, which simply gives those students a half-price discount on all purchases at dorm dining

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  -seminar program initiated by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at ... to learn something new at every seminar. The list of the seminars that ... Event Performance with the Silk Road Ensemble at Symphony Hall Dr. Thomas

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  . So at CPW, I visited the crew and TKD info booths, and during ... Sport Taekwondo team competed at the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference (ECTC) tournament at West Point Military Academy. We came home

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  Did you miss the CPW webcast with Lauren and Jennifer? Well if you hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... doing two different webcasts this time, one at 8:00pm EDT and one at 10

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring ... of 12 people chosen at the end of freshman year to represent the class ... at MIT, Mitra '07 was a member of her class's RingComm. It's all kind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  subject at a time. After taking tests, I normally go back to my room to ... dorms at MIT, you get to pref who you want to live with, what floor you ... fulfilled. Basically, my room is one of my favorite places at MIT, welcome to

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  Published: October 1, 2009 At M.I.T., from left, Paul Baranay, Jess Kim and ... York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a ... when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  has been a cruel mistress, but at the same time has taught me a lot ... weeks at home for the last two years, I'm excited! Oh, and one last note ... as the final song on the soundtrack of my "My Time at MIT" video. As I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009