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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  hoard of posters on the wall last year![/caption] today i’ve finally ... ="Live On Stage Theatre, a theatre group which runs a new contemporary ... and i popped down to one of the halls at the new england conservatory to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a typical pset might only contain 5 problems, every one of those problems is ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more ... unsurprisingly, more than half of the competitors, and all but one of the medals, have come from the "pirate sports" of rowing, sailing, fencing and rifle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  back into my room. Luckily, through all of it, I had my new toy that I ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure agreements and the threat of prison I can't tell you a whole lot about it, but

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100 = 0, yr# mod 400 = 0 must also be true), we get one of these odd days ... life. Going wayy back... (1988) - I was born on a leap year, but I guess

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  day of work. On top of that, there was also a 2-hour exec and a 1-hour ... , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day ... throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  "]2.009.[/annotation]  After 2.009, nine of us continued working on the ... after a few years at MIT! I've become one of two co-leads on Contour, and ... many people! Some of my friends have exec roles on [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  okay. i'm super behind on this and that's my bad. but... when you return to/arrive on campus, you should consider getting a bike. it's so ... ="the entrance on Mass Ave. that most students pass through to get to class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... there on the side of the road, before the car which hit me had even come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of ... recommendation on the application tracking system. Allow two weeks from submission ... on the blogs. Until that time, relax. Don't worry about the Mid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  dorm East Campus and, more generally, the dorms on the east side of MIT ... 1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  to start. They've got at least one whole year on you in terms of ... 's a twisted exercise to ultimately grade a person on one's mastery of ... Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... to create a 3D object, and discover something new about the process ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  Caroline then later took on the role of baking and cooking, with Aiden just ... show is going to be on the weekend of--actually wait let me pull up the ... As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of ... expectations can make the feelings change here are some of the prophecies on my ... tend to continue trying new things and exploring more of the world

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  the streets of London and meet new people and fully immerse myself in ... something known as rush tickets, tickets you can get on the day of the show ... of reflection. I've been spending a lot of time on my own as a symptom

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  blog about the transfer process. I promise it is on my list of future ... each year. Pia made some typos on her application: "Instead of writing ... writes, "I appeared in TOEFL exam on 31st of December,2004 at INDIA. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  that was really lovely of her, especially because she had come in on a ... bought these on my very first grocery shopping trip of college! I felt like ... 't taste that strongly of it (again, a pro or a con depending on your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  ). Unfortunately, all of the reviews have been overwhelmingly negative—the new place ... on produce, meat, and Asian specialty items. It has all sorts of fruits ... On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016