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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was ... resident Queen of Party, I've been getting the feeling that some of my party ... semester. So based on suggestions from some of you, I'm going to host an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  blogger, I'll try to keep you updated. 1. Sleep. Getting enough of it will ... . 5. Real world stuff. I want to get off campus sometimes, make outside ... to go for a walk or get real food. If I didn’t love the world and want

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  uncomfortably close to getting scurvy, probably because I overestimate the ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... choice 10 more excursions to cheap and delicious Korean places than I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  to fire I'm sorry, but this is the best action shot I could get -- it ... Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  where the last two weeks went - and getting excited about IAP :) As Jenny mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts ... abroad like the aforementioned individuals, my first IAP still promises to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... their high school. No need to get bent out of shape because you are not ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... that isn't even there get in your way. You want to be challenged more ... night doing it because it's due tomorrow. Although I have to admit I think

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the ... it. I know I will be. Really bad photos to follow. Also, if you ... . *** Update circa 11:13 PM: As it turns out, it's actually really really hard to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  . This trip will conclude my fall travel season, so I'll get back to ... are pretty busy by day, but at night we've been heading to this sports ... being in Boston or Cambridge. Sortof surreal to experience that in

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  rained, it was clear enough to get some great views! ... Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  do not want to get fat. There's a big lounge called the TFL ... pots, ahem). MacGregor is also in talks to get a dining hall put in ... As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  other FAQ I've been getting is, why so few EA admits? 200220032004 EA ... committed to admitting no more than one-third of our class during early action. We feel that the pressures to apply early are too high, and don't want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... collaboration. Students are encouraged and expected to work with each other on
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT ... students to get the best and hardest parts and a lot of unnecessary pressure ... educational experience, to say the least. To avoid getting behind, specifically

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  day. If you try to comment, and your comment gets blocked...try removing ... come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... during finals and is finally getting better), four finals in three days

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  smarter to sleep and get some efficiency back. I also got so inefficient ... can, and I know that it’s not going to last forever. I’ll get to the ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  that it comes back to me?" If you take single-variable again, you get ... to something else without bothering to get credit for it. Right on with ... , awesome entry. I heard that Random is very selective (hard to get into) how

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  STARS’ partner colleges get together to host a virtual college fair for ... STARS (Small-Town and Rural Student) Ambassadors, to give you a quick recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  love eating. SO MUCH. And there's so much variety here and I get to try ... ). Absolutely LOVE tennis, I hope to go to every major and get a (viewing) grand ... fit in the group, but I was so proud of myself for getting to the top

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time ... up and started to get ready. If you have never built a big project, you ... happy to let us do), get the right drill bit, and get the right screws (we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018