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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... store for the purpose of providing discounts. The three of us waited ... one against the concrete, like my heart at the mention of coats. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  : school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... 1 and 3 AM. Weeeeee. But this past Wednesday was the first “final review” of the semester – which means everybody presents their design

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... , from TV shows and video games to social media and the concept of spam

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  ." Second, the Boston Globe had this photo and caption today: A ton of snow was delivered to the front lawn of MIT Fraternity house Chi Phi on the corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  amounts of snow, snow means fun! For all of the upper-classmen who see snow ... the residents of Conner 2 (second floor of the Conner side of Burton ... one of its kitchens so that's where we got the snow for the majority of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... all of the views expressed here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  first and roll over to the front of the foot. this is still true (for most ... to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now ... . part of this was because i was not walking in the best way, for several

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA ... So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In ... rain whipping in the faces of thousands upon thousands of runners is ... , which was open to the page about how to resuscitate hypothermics. Oh, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... waitstaff began to fill the bars and the tables full of treats, while rows and rows of people clamored about trying to take pictures of the half

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  they think that one of the essays which i typed was written by her or ... naturally in my own handwriting) or would they give me the benefit of doubt ... people the benefit of the doubt, as I'm sure we did in your case. hedwig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  Commencement (graduation), usually the first week in June, is also the weekend of ... couldn't help but think of Fenway Park and the Red Sox. Fenway, I think, is ... . A Red Sox game will be one of the highlights of my MIT 5 Year Reunion

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  to be strong. Coordinate! Don't wait until the morning of to put ... organ donor. If there are too many people to fit in the front of the U-Haul, just jump into the back of the truck and get comfy. [caption id

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  we do."]unprecedented number of applications[/annotation] over the last ... challenges. And the bleary-eyed, decision-fatigued humans on the other side of ... with all of our Regular Action applicants.   Thus, in observance of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how MIT almost became a pirate fortress in the middle of the Charles. Via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  were great. The Chancellor and President of MIT showed up for the first ... information about student mental health by the beginning of next semester, which I plan on presenting in the form of a Tech Article, a Powerpoint

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  first and third line of each stanza repeat as the second and fourth line ... books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e ... , the writing of which resembles pulling teeth but creates a satisfying

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  final leg of the SCUFFY process, first-years ranked their floor using a ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh ... like we captured the memey, spontaneous, chaotic energy of BC perfectly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020