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• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  , bread. (2) Forget to add mayo. (3) Hike 10 miles through snow, over ice ... was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70 ... from Anna’s. It’s good to be back. Anyways, it’s IAP (Independent

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  left was to make the sprint from Maseeh Hall to the Student Center to use ... ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... has been as close to a Hell Week as I’ve ever been. You might be

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students. Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  'welcome to MIT' freshmen experience, began on Saturday. Today, Denzil Sikka ... their words. They'd like to write about why 'Going Greek' was the best ... ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with?" and "Tell us something funny, we read a lot of these!" It seemed to go

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... rollerbladed to the train station. (Incidentally, rollerblades and trains are not a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did ... me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break ... of 2013 facebook group. Sophomores and juniors can attest to the fact

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  I was extremely stoked to finally visit. Not only was it my first time ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  MIT Student Center who happen to read this blog and remember that one ... , however, accurately reflect the views of the author. Much to my disappointment, nary a single spambot showed up to the CPW Meet the Bloggers night

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the ... about twenty-five minutes. It seems like the right time to start an ... /D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle. Over Kresge. I hope you got to see this, it's a pretty incredible sight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  House, had a holiday dinner on Saturday night! (We're supposed to have a ... 're supposed to be International House, after all! =D Afterwards, we also had ... card to Boston Tea Stop (the closest bubble tea shop from MIT - in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... campus copy center) to be copied -- 1000 doubled-sided, folded copies are ... : The 100th student arrives! 9:55am: Snively! 10:30am: It's starting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  physics psets which I'm just a little psyched about. So to share my ... Special Relativity with a brief intro to General Relativity is 1) a physics ... case you want to pop by with a muffin and say hi. Don't forget the muffin

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Jackson originally worked on the soundtrack to ... got lost on my way to 6.003: Signals and Systems recitation on my first ... major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006