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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  study schedule to make sure that the portion of summer residents who watch ... reading it is." Soooooooo . . . . for all of you prefrosh that came to CPW ... was an MIT student who didn't have quite enough credits to graduate

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  home anymore. i’m referring here to the house i lived in for most of ... also supposed to be here. of course, being in the privileged position of ... ’t be less beautiful or fun for lack of MIT. i don’t deserve to be at MIT

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time ... from some degree of "regression." there's something about going back to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  them, somewhere, and that many people have their side of the story yet to ... to abuse of power, petty arguments, rifts between people. As someone ... of my faith in human beings, and definitely made me reconsider where to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  ’t heard of them? Neither did I until I applied to MISTI-Japan and got an ... amounts of TBS-T or insect cell media), we go to lunch, we work some more ... This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... about barbecue." "Hm." So, in order to make up for my lack of cordiality

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  Admissions Blogs: a wholesome, geeky corner of the internet similar to ... a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is ... !” Morgan G. '25 “I relate to Hank in a lot of ways. He's bi, I'm bi. He has

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to watch a lot of the movies I've been wanting to see (or haven't had the ... : Another Earth Of Gods and Men A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  't believe. I haven't decided which of these MITs feels most like home to me ... will probably combine to make this one of the more exhilarating ... a group of us drove down in a van to the widest open space we could

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of ... to make my choice out of those options, usually only ending up with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly ... chance of being admitted to MIT. With that said, in the last few years we ... in EA. That's a small number, but to be honest so is the number of RA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out ... they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a ... ventured off to find as many insane things as we could for free off of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  about the realities of science. I've edited out expletives, in order to ... So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged ... then, haha) My experiments are working! And as a result, I'm about to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  week I went to two very incredible shows by two of my favorite bands (not ... ! What did YOU do when you got into MIT? Example: I'm Sandy, one of Jess ... loves me and is really excited that I got in and is also really excited to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime ... stayed in place despite its best efforts to escape. MIT's victory

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement ... speaker will be Irwin Jacobs, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social ... Institute's capacity for innovation.  MIT SHASS is home to research that has a global impact, and to superb graduate programs, all recognized as
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  to survive, and none of that skim/nonfat white water nonsense.] R ... to some of those frozen dinners] Horizon Low Fat 1% Milk (30 boxes ... . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  far to drink? how dare I complain about thirst when a sea of knowledge ... vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these ... material enough i can’t wait for the semester to end this course is too damn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  to read this blog entry that I wrote a number of years ago sharing some ... , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023