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• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... the four-ish inches we currently have is enough to close down the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  're accustomed to on our birthdays? Well, I think I've lost that a while ago, but ... closer to the all important yet elusive conviction that I'm doing right by ... themselves doing the things only men were supposed to do. Here's hoping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went ... you were flawless, and worshipped the ground you walked on. Haha, I think flawless is about the last word even Adam would use to describe me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... 't intend to take any computer-related classes, any engineering classes (hands-on ... was a good target for being changed because, in truth, I was only on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on ... -back culture to a lot of the places I've found on HelpX, which is pleasant, but ... check out the hosts! If you've set your mind on somewhere, apply to a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  -coordinated tournament on the ISS. The goal of this UROP?  To write a game, teach it to ... ).  Since then, I've been on the ETOOMUCHADVENTURE side of things - the curse ... write about it ;)  But summer's winding down now.  The time has come to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... mode for the Asymptones. Auditions lasted from the following Saturday to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  using Notion to track all my class assignments. i feel very on top of ... room all the time, so it's easy to get things done as soon as a class ... 'm more willing to collaborate on work — last year, i mostly psetted alone

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... Guild. I was in fact planning on going to both, though, because I ... events that all happen to be occuring at the same time, usually not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure ... can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now ... new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... allergies to make necessary arrangements. Since we have five now, the hall

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of ... meet that will last several hours on their schedule. Halloween the night

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  ’d applied to (and really wanted to go to) were in Boston, or on the East coast ... Boat Cruise event. We're at the World Trade Center in Boston, on the dock where the boat leaves and returns to. And the MIT Ethiopian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Prof. Pinker... well, he decided to move to Harvard. This term, the ... Math courses; Eric Lander, the first author on the publication of the ... who choose to teach freshman classes care very much about the mentoring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have to think about the impending decision day looming on the horizon. In ... waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to ... MIT password and asked him to check for me. I got to experience the torturous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  lonely on my mile-long walks home across the base and always stop to check ... haven't been to the beach yet. But I DID go on an observing trip with a 24 ... arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  understand." I'd give this pset a 2 out of 5 on the "assume the fetal position ... descriptively "How to Build Jet Engines." While this class ranks much higher on ... proportionally higher on the "assume the fetal position" scale. But after 6 hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ; early on, the perspectives he gained convinced him to consider a career in ... go on to graduate school following the completion of their bachelor ... scheduled to graduate in the top one or two percent of their class," said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  sparkling and buoyant. I want to find that feeling on whatever of the one ... parents were going to move me in my freshman year, I sat on the brick steps ... obvious that, duh, I’d be going to school next year. Maybe the only other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  IT'S BLOGGER WRAPPED TIME This feels almost poetic to me. The very ... it. Everyone go read her blog to show appreciation for the good work ... Abby 2018 In 2021, my top song was The Monster Mash, and I listened to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023