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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where ... at MIT. I was told prior to arriving at MIT that it was going to be ... is not a place where parental desires matter. At the end of the day

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  start volunteering at a local hospital. Nurse: Birth date? Me: 31 October ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My ... at the sink, and carried it over to the table. Silence fell as the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  reëntered as grad students. At work the interstitial space feels even more ... 'm still one of the "young guys" at the office. But yet the undergraduates ... twice as wise, or at least wise twice. I am confident this is how wisdom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   ... students is November 6th, 2011, at 11:59 PM. For all other students, we will ... at no disadvantage.) If your EC has not gotten back to you, but it has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and ... ..." Allegedly, I frothed at the mouth and rasped, "Mitra?? THE Mitra?" (Mitra, for ... -than-loud conversation was quietly tolerated by plaid-clad hipsters wincing at us over

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  of me even scoffed at the transient notion that this would take any significant time at all. "They're already on number 4 out of 5" I said to myself ... thinking. Lets take a look at another one" Panic. All. Of. The. Problems

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the ... - at least at Next House - each have a thermostat. Hypothermia isn't an ... ? I can personally withstand a snow-induced catastrophe for at least

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  dedicated to the arts at MIT, but you know that spiels are spiels, not actual ... perform on a particular week, you can drop by at the beginning of that week ... any confiscated items of yours will be returned at the end of the show

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT ... them, eager to make it home. To a fellow punk: "Doesn't even look at us

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  of them. Before every launch, I glanced at one line of the table ... plucking plums all the while, with minimal success. At 5’ 2”, she was a good ... and poked at a few of them, just to see what would happen. My un

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  hometown friends are back at school and already a week into their second ... Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... at Hong Kong University for the fall semester and then travel across

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  weeks. You do not need to worry at this time about documents that are not ... copy of any document at this time. Also, you do not need to call MIT Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM ... at sunrise, the groggy skyline gulping down cold milky skies frothed ... astrophysically precise.) *In fact, this fact is not factually interesting at all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  at home preparing before finally getting on the subway, which took a little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of course it did.) I got off at Shinjuku-sanchome, realized I had gotten off

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  colleges. After about 5 picoseconds of staring at my acceptance letter from ... . Before taking a second look at the campus, before getting my financial aid ... marvel at the sheer impossibility that I picked the right college without

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  conference (at Hah-vahd). (I was Fiji, by the way - oh and Ahmed went too ... :) ). Oh, and this was at the Silk Road Ensemble Concert this last Sunday at ... wow...such a good movie. (btw, I spend at least one hour every night

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  traveler who arrived at the wrong airport after a trip four times longer than ... messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to another city." "We're leaving at 8. 9. 9:40. 10. 10:30. 10:50. 11:30. We

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  , MIT is really really good at helping you adjust and prepare for such ... 'm more afraid of goats. (Seriously, goats freak me out. Look at their eyes ... : Ultra-slim eh? yea ok, that's about as ultra-slim as Rosie O'Donnell at a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... 'm just rambling on aimlessly! No one at my school blogs, and it would have ... into the room, waiting in suspense at 4:17 PM as Random Hall residents

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  crazy thing you'd have fun at :) This paragraph was followed by all of the ... both would be staying at MIT over the break (flights to Oregon are ... . Full of food and full of caffeine we arrived at Copley an hour before the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008