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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  lacking on partying or hazing stories, instead speaking of the intense ... these rules may have an impact on the nature of the late nights, it was still a week of late nights. I can't comment on sorority recruitment

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  of freedom for you to explore on your own. You may want to talk with ... substantial portion of the Class of 2012 will be on campus, so it would actually ... tooling, of students working on problem sets. For sure, it will be happening

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... , when the route was on the brink of being decommissioned. 1971 was also ... met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. '23. Few things on God

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  System, clear my inboxes, and check off things urgent on my todo list. Of course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... for an away competition!"]a record 7 of us[/annotation] on the MIT

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  of time speeding hazily by. I've been...  Trying to cook food more without setting off any alarms (a sure sign of sophomore-ish maturity, or so I think) Getting my first taste of Chipotle with the bloggers

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... , for all of their hard work on processing all of the documents! ... The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  on the Time Traveler Convention. Anyway, check both of those out. Last ... undergraduates go on to grauate school to earn a Master of Architecture (MArch ... blog topics today. Kevin posted the New York Times article on MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  social hierarchy on top of academics in college, which are already ... Ayomide F. ‘18 from the Pi Day video is president of, btw) was bringing on a ... students. Any organization on campus--a cultural club, a floor of a dormitory

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small ... red pen on the back of my notebook. Apparently John McPhee has won a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  the nature of the work is more… technical. on top of that, 6.036 is ... 09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  on questions of life or uncertainty or being-at-MIT (hint, it was ... anthropological data on the use of public gardens. became fluent in French, ran ... it took good classes on the sociopolitical position of science, queer

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  the next few months with 57 units of courses: On February 6th, the ... weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back ... grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  during the training, so I wrote on it instead. On the bottom of the ... Flu Shots. You can see the blue scribbles on the sheet of paper on the ... essays from these classes every year. I enjoy reading a lot of them. On top

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... , bundled in three layers of pajamas resembling a plaid-colored icicle, on the ... stopped and read the first line. I started screaming on the top of my lungs

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Workshop (red) in Building 66, on the other side of campus. Every Tuesday and ... Frost to Billy Collins' coming-of-age poem "On Turning Ten" to childhood ... resistors on a small piece of foam posterboard. By the end of the day, we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

   (Chinese and Japanese food) over on Beacon Street, Trident (a smorgasbord of ... Kendall Square - specifically, right on the corner of Main and Ames ... on the recommendation of the advisor for Active Minds, one of my ECs. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  snack on hors d'oeuvres, contemplate the lack of financial support for our ... . "Frictional Properties of Graphene on a Functionalized Rough Surface ... I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... information. One ballroom dance website had the lessons listed on Mondays and

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... went over New Zealand on June 29 to catch the stellar occultation of of ... biological effects of weightlessness, and he trained to fly on the space

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the ... SPECIAL DOUBLE BONUS ENTRY!! I didn't actually write this entry on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005