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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  ’t seem to fit with anything. The latter is more specific to my own dorm ... you don’t feel like dealing with paint fumes or chalk dust is to ... students to customize their rooms is actually in the furniture. From my

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  'd like you to meet someone new, though -- This is my gigantic freshman ... 't stupid. Such is the case with my beloved backpack. I pack my life into my ... (which is still pass/no record), and to a lesser degree in your second

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  is even legal in Massachusetts, less than a block from some cops who ... riding a bike without a helmet is only illegal in Massachusetts if you are ... to work. And I failed. Getting the check scanner to work is a tricky

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... the waitlist? As I've said, the waitlist is not ranked. We will ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  that gets thrown around about people affiliated with MIT. Most of it is ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low the bar is set and simply limping over it to gain admission. The biggest

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want ... (referenced to the floor). Woot! Anyway, here it is; the picture was taken in a ... shot. Also, the glass top is borrowed; I haven't bought one of my own

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  -time messaging. As she wrote on her blog, a hallmate once told her that "M.I.T. is ... reported, "IT IS SO TRUE. Love. It. So. Much." Dozens of colleges ... 're learning, slowly, that this is how the world works, especially for high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  , which is quite cheery in contrast to this blog, but please do realize that ... years, and he realized that it is time to pick a successor. He gathered ... already known that climbing this cliff with one's bare hands is impossible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  spoke with the last agent. There is no hope for you." "Oh, you can standby ... -offer discounted hotel room when this whole mess is your fault. (And don't blame the ... -threatening but faaaar more common than losing cabin pressure is having a flight

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is ... cesium atom. Editor's note: The following is not for the faint of heart ... . So, the logical conclusion is to deep fry various organic structures

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  . Pictured above is the route I took to work: the Harvard bridge, past building ... is actually run by a bunch of zombies. Since the original plan of ... building. Which is pretty much what I was hoping to get out of this UROP

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  essay the best it can be. This post is called "discovering yourself ... important than others, what do you value? Is band more important than Model UN ... admissions wants to see is a dangerous dangerous game to play. You need to be a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  class (for all those who have forgotten, an essay is the English version ... . And yet… It really is something more, something special. After CPW, I ... a sweatshirt. All I’m missing is some pants, maybe some shoes. But

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... homework. This is what happened to me on Sunday. I was working on this ... : On each daily webpage there is a summary of the day's material. These

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

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  awesomeness that it is." Tear! I decided to finally blog (weeks after the fact ... 't move so I can stomp on your face." But apparently Veronica is less ... recap of the episode: In the Mech E lab, Veronica is visiting Wallace, who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  one of my three roommates except that his name is [name protected], he ... throughout the past four years. So I think the way we came to be is that one ... you will form yours. Another group that is particularly important

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... apostrophe. So you would say "my boss' shenanigans." This is fascinating to me. Upon FURTHER consultation with Dizzle '09, whose father is named Douglas

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might ... Stanford laundry is free but printing costs money, while at MIT printing is ... :30 PM, also known as the hours when every single person in the dorm is at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  next day, and the rest, as they say, is history. I'm actually really ... infection is a poor choice, just in case you're ever faced with the decision.) I don't have to do this. Nobody is holding a gun to my head and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I ... Spanish accent.) 9.12 is known in words as Experimental Molecular ... $30,000 a year is quite a bit more than I currently make as a UROP. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005