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• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host for you, you can imagine how time consuming this can be. Even daylight saving time didn't help me leave the office before dark. Most of you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be ... opening-round game at Giants Stadium (I think) to cheer for the Azzurri

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  't be able to do. The bales of hay outlined a picture of a clove ... Gilroy Garlic Festival 2005: The entrance is flanked by two port ... each year, and that it is the largest food festival in the country. On

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to be pretty packed inside the Z-Center. As you can imagine, it was ... address, so I snapped a shot of the poster... Being proactive, I decided ... to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ’m three weeks into my third semester at MIT. I’m relieved to be dry; at the ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night before and slid my laptop back under my bed. Hopefully my gel would be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... lengthy and fairly serious thread that had developed overnight about The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... ? Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud. He has the story ... . The summer is here, but he’s not going on vacation. Instead, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the ... minutes is like the blink of an eye when you're being considerate of your ... While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  , a little frustrated by being the only boy and by being the proverbial ... becomes quite popular at school. Being a deskworker is the single greatest ... So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... , but not like during the year. During the summer it'd be pretty hard to ... to be more and more people on campus but not the type of people you

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  being annoying to those around me under the guise of it having no ... figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and ... + 2? Be clever! Pat yourself on the back if you got it right! You're so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  circuit) tape out before the deadline which just so happened to be the first ... ) (+Dohyun)”. While Andi seemed to be diligently take notes on the panel ... was meant to be mixed with the coffee, I poured myself a full cup of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  the last last cohort of bloggers, and if you remember reading it when ... Allan G. ‘20 are identical twins ….” At the time, and up until about 1 ... , we emailed Elizabeth, and she changed the little blurb appropriately

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  months. It heartened me to be in that room, with the coolest collection of ... A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the ... read Chin's book about five years ago, and was madly into it at the time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  Three days until the US Open officially begins! As an engineer, I'll give some numbers: - 125 = number of years the US Open has been around - 1,100,000 = prize money for the Men's/Women's tournament winner - 4

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  long, long time. :-) I got here a little after 8AM, worked the registration desk until a little after 8PM, went to the Prefrosh Welcome Event in Rockwell (where Marilee spoke and the Logs sang), picked up some liquid

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  d'etres. (Oh god, don't know French, don't know where to add the plural! Raisones d'etre? Maybe?) Cheerleading I was, as you may be aware, a theatre/band/choir star in high school. I was the only person in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  over Y will make the people advocating for Y sad or disappointed in me ... this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to do after graduating, like: going through the same evidence over and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  /Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from the ceiling of its main terminal. At least, I think that's what it is ... the last six hours, and have another eight to go. But this isn't about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  the Class of 2012 (!), so don't be offended if we're not around when you ... Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International Orientation as well as the Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs) beginning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007