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• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach ... /early/contriving enough to claim their own bedroom. I slept on an ottoman, but it was only ... gorged myself on 180,000,000+ pixels of touristy excess. (Now rescaled to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Victoria’s Secret Update UPDATE!

  

  Ok, quick update to my post immediately below this one. Read that one before this one, otherwise this one won't be nearly as exciting. Ok, so, now when you go to vote for MIT you get this lovely screen: YAY!

  • by Snively '11
  • November 2, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  allow instructors to focus on critical content in the classroom and rely ... to Biology), MITx software registered 3,000 clicks in a given day on ... See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York ... ) on a mini-roadtrip to the small town of Brenham, home of Blue Bell ice

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  to make sure that EC gets a good housemaster, because we want EC to ... . Which means that we will have to find a new housemaster. The new ... held elections to choose the two student reps. A lot of people ran, more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  better job eulogizing the Milk than I ever could. If you're a milk-enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own ... having any reason to own milk.    Whether by chance or on purpose

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  . Uglier than anything you've ever seen. On the other hand, you may instead think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  out free cookies on the first day of classes every term. That was all I wanted to say, really, but I had to think of something MIT-related because for some reason there is no Project Runway category on MITblogs. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights: -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times ... seen before, like limpid and munificent. -I still did fine on the GREs

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  made very difficult, but we can earn back up to half the points we lost ... and Conflict in the Middle East. My paper was on the relationship ... something to do with codes. Thursday: 9.71 midterm. I was pretty happy about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  ? The career fair is tomorrow, so we had to do it on Thursday. Did we all ... semester, a different hall bands together to provide some sort of creative ... called the "Bring the Feast" FAC. I was unable to attend the event

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions & Coca-Cola Check-in Last-minute questions, and Coca-Cola Scholars check-in.

  

  there get a chance to connect!). ... With CPW less than a day away, I'd like to use the comments for this ... do this in Mollie's latest entry). Students who have to miss CPW for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  If you're considering MIT, you probably like to build things ... dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... . Apparently we're on such good terms that it's even Sam's responsibility to fix

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my ... EXPLODE about how much we both love anime/Japanese culture (shoutout to Mojo ... , happy. :)   bonus video of me attempting to do the worm on Killian

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  well, so if you're wondering where I went, I've simply been on the go ... I'm spending some time at MIT seeing friends. I've been on the east ... time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  arrived on the 21st, so that gave us around three days to do all the prep ... about anime, to listening in on a heated debate about the US education ... second time, we are now beyond desensitized to the word. It's both awful

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will ... Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their