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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  towards home plate and asks you to describe the acceleration of one point on ... So I was wandering around facebook today and I discovered this new ... excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  ; New York: On our way back from DC, we stopped by in NYC to hang out with ... Pinos (@erickpinos) on Jan 13, 2017 at 10:22pm PST In DC and New York ... visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  designing a new departmental facility for the Course 1 and Course 12 on a new site on campus. It is an open-ended project which should be a lot of fun ... majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... really fast and dodging all the punches that the '08 through, and as a ... posters from the walls of my rooms, so I e-mailed the '07 with a description

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  of MIT's new Initiative on Technology and Self, which is working to ... Brian and I set out for the front steps of MIT on Wednesday evening, and ... on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the ten students sit in a circle of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Associate Head of House apartment installed somewhere on their floor, which is ... -based, so they have varying levels of hallway and room culture. On some floors ... , so putting traditions on a scale of 'what is important and what is not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  discover a whole new territory. Make your mark in whatever way you can - on ... This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand, I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  of paper and important looking stuff on it. I gave the guy staffing the ... from this experience: MIT values different parts of its mail depending on ... shiny new envelope, there isn’t a whole lot of really neat stuff. Once you

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  ). we also decided on having a rental car for four of the eight days we ... after an hour of dancing on a speeding bus. everyone had the chance to ... . on top of that, the music was still pounding in our years, and the bus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been ... me. This morning was a meeting about our new viewbook, discussed in Ben

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  all back with new entries. Cool. On the topic of blogs, does anyone ... Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all ... answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of rich men reclining on comfy couches while drinking and battling wits. The symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  to learn something new at every seminar. The list of the seminars that ... Byrne – Clinical Professor of Neurology "Mirror Neurons: Impact on ... the members of the Ensemble play on the webpage!). After the event

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  do! So when Aiden posted his tier list of MIT's dining halls and rated ... "] Map of restaurants I visited over the week.[/caption] Day 1 (Saturday ... custard" (from the drinks menu, which turned out to be just a bowl of corn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  favorite part of my notebook. I use CAD (Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape) for ... on everything from my interest in the subject, the pace of the lecture ... or a diagram that would supplement it. My new notebook has a table of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note="MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave"]Lobby 7.[/annotation] i let my ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  perform in high school largely falls on the shoulders of each individual ... a perfect score of 800 on his math SAT, and he’ll finish somewhere in ... Canadian teenager Ben Gulak got a bit of a head start on his training in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to congratulate Early Action students on getting into MIT. It was... tough. What do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... itself represents a new kind of hack. ... part of MIT folklore, hacks can tell much about MIT's culture and

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007