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• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  like the hosts of a party trying to get people out at 3am: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. In truth, I’m one of the lucky ... about packing my life up and heading back to New York. On top of that, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  scheduled entry.... One of the things I like about being home is getting to ... billion dollars of debt to foreign countries being forgiven, I guess that ... 's certainly an honor for me to be part of an equation with Bono. I also picked

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and swaddled long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing ... .  To check your decision on the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... -looking female. I can’t buy a $68 cup of awareness. I wish to be conspicuous and ... unfair,” he says at the end of his speech, “but it’s there.” It’s time to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each ... process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA ... through to a handful of people, but you seemed really cool! Thanks for your

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... most of them are so mundane. It's just normal to be helpful around here ... of 18- to 22-year-old people.) I guess my feeling is that something

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  interdisciplinary area of BioPhysics and why you should not to enter grad school in an ... with being an orphan of sorts. Howard Georgi from Harvard came to discuss ... around and not the gold. I took some time off in the middle of the day to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  day of classes, a place to drink tea while discussing scholarly topics ... to our room cause I kinda like having lots of space," Anisha explained ... the strip of un-painted-ness to be signable and SHAZAM! It was. And I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  What: Battle of the Bands When: Saturday of CPW (April 8th). Doors ... Floor of the Student Center Who: YOU! Battle of the Bands will be a ... really amazing... guaranteed to blow your mind or your money back (ok, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... !! it was so nice to see everyone :') members of the Sloan Business Club ... deprived of a college experience that I want to at least maintain my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  or may not be carrying. I want 15 HOURS of work to amount to something —ANYTHING— because that would make sense. I want to not sleep and give all of ... spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography ... member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They'

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... from throughout the United States to engage in an intensive study of ... , students will be able to structure most of their work around their individual

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  talking to dozens of high schoolers about ridiculous survival scenarios ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  " game where you have to "work together" to rid Hyrule of evil. 16 ... isle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can ... Pancakes. Why are we up this late? To feed you pancakes of course! Pancakes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of Jony Ive's breathless product launches, complete with pictures of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final ... to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2.5 months already!" I've been more along the lines of "I can't believe it ... 've got to say I would've rather served myself instead of being served. We

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while running around campus, finding places to sit and study physics. Yesterday, on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  wanted to say, really, but I had to think of something MIT-related because ... DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life ... KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006