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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  , has an annual fall tradition in which we play a hall-wide game of assassins. the premise is simple: everyone gets a randomized target, and your ... is your target's target, so if A was hunting B and B was hunting C, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  conversation a few times, but the more I think about IAP, the more I don’t like it. When I was a prospective student, I thought that IAP was the coolest. thing. ever. A whole month or more to just do whatever you want

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  experience with imposter syndrome has been a somewhat interesting one. For me, imposter syndrome just sort of, exists. It’s a voice in the back of my head ... graduate, and so, in two years, I should have a degree in mathematics from

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the ... ".   a parody of Animal Planet     This week on MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might ... you don't miss a thing (I actually did that) - but relax! Take advantage ... alone as a prefrosh, and my agreement with my mother was that I would

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  . I think I maybe had a brief stint with it in the summer before? 9th ... /athletic hype playlists because it is a BANGER. Other than that, though, I did not do a single sport until college, where I started fencing in freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  include my oh-so-awesome CPW event? Oh right, I'm a blogger. So here it is ... challenge to you: Eat free food. Find a hack somewhere on campus Build and/or destroy something Meet a professor in the department you might

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... -- approximately 6% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP ... Philbrick, from my small apartment in LA and set up a time for a meet and

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... of a country evangelist) to make me a mix CD of her favorite stuff. I ... and Madhuri Dixit; unlike Devdas, I've never seen it. Another one from a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  with a Bachelor's and Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies & Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching ... evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  my Algebra 2 teacher’s recommendation. It was simply a better school ... deadline, I encourage you to spend a lot of introspective time. This doesn ... essays. This means to spend a lot of time thinking about why you do the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  topic (patience with the mail) this week. Here's a sampling: Daniel at ... everything updated. We're having what might turn out to be a record year so ... application pieces not showing up on your tracking. There's a lot of mail to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  into a proposal for a functional school building. As soon as I started ... , but another critic zooms in on a detail. You do know that your building ... and started drawing a stick figure with legs. My classmates laughed

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... opportunity came on March 7. At 4 AM (yes, that is A.M.)– 2 busses pulled up at ... before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option ... . Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a click of a mouse button. Many childhoods of anticipation will come to an

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  application. If you do not have a full set of scores, your application will still be reviewed in a holistic manner. Our office will be closed ... still submit your application. Having a technical issue will not

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let’s look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion. The School of Engineering will be…

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  Yes, it's been a while since my last entry...much has happened. I am now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday ... a glorious 2 extra hours on the tracks, right outside of New Haven. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006