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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  people that I would be going to school with for four years. I also had a ... Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... umbrella--it had a big button that you could press to open it, fit perfectly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  dinner was catered by Vinny Testa's of Boston. We took a cab back ... inquires, "How's your wife/husband?" The other responds, "Relative to what ... to nothing in the long run. 7:30-8:00 pm Sophomore Welcome Dinner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... (LBGT) groups. (There could be more sponsors that I'm forgetting.) Gabe '08, my suitemate from San Antonio, TX, returned to campus today, just

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  want to be somewhere where we won't be disturbed by visitors, where we ... juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again ... your applications to be read! And speaking of your applications, back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  midnight. On the way back to my dorm I stopped at my team's (Death From Above ... around anyway. (The way Mystery Hunt works is that the first team to find ... , so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  respond. :) I still do not know exactly what course I'm going to be at MIT ... 're going to be doing in iHouse (more on this soon!) and D-lab (first semester ... was being a good student, and went to class...ahem) - but it's alright

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  I still feel gross, especially after being used to showering everyday ... 'll be able to make some progress with things. And I'm handling the ... everything is going to be okay. Because cat.

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  yesterday's math competition win by MIT was unsurprising to some of you, but ... first national title since 1974 by upsetting the U.S. Naval Academy at the ... nationally-ranked No. 1 Midshipmen by four points, preventing them from earning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  Steinmeyer (the lecturer) thinks would be cool for us to experiment with. And ... wouldn't expect to be able to not work, like ethernet cables ... looked forward to… but it turned out to be the most disappointing. Not that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... of MIT’s investments. Thankfully, activism will continue to be a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  sleep and dares anybody who walks by to have a staring contest with him ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles ... Krystal talked about had been picked through and claimed. I don’t like to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  out to be totally true the buildings have names, not numbers, and the courses are referred to by the material they cover, like ‘abstract algebra ... so pretty. There's something to be said for brutalism, and windows that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  my apartment and introduced myself to people that lived close by. And ... read that right - until I could get mine fixed. It turned out to be quite ... [by Jenny Nelson '09] What's the craziest thing that you've ever

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  tireless coaches drove us all the way back to Minneapolis, where we ate ... airport, awaiting the plane that would take us to Minneapolis en route to Waverly, Iowa, home to Wartburg College and the NCAA Division III Cross

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  mineral as determined by its capacity to scratch another or be itself ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT was. Conversations with current students led me to believe that MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  students to attend than ever before. And I'll be working with the web team ... happened next. And later, when I popped grinning by Mikey's office to ask ... ." Yep. The students here at MIT may be on spring break, but the office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  themself, including whether MIT is likely to be a good cultural fit.  The ... , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... select the right summer and enrichment opportunities to best position my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  hiked from here all the way to the second peak you can see in the back ... the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... the senior thesis Mike Short '05 had to write to get his BS in Course 22

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  i decided to be jobless and reward myself by just sitting there and ... representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no ... to yap and have fun  ... and not to be meta and all but i just read

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024