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• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego ... a ball! No really, you guys should be excited. Why? Well, I'll tell

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  [annotation note="Being at the eastern edge of the timezone really sucks. Today, the ... tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  agreement that makes me promise that she'll be the one to pick out my wedding ... and he told us about what it was like to be behind the scenes on TV ... The unabridged version of a semi-recent, semi-typical, but memorable

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  be going well at this point, all of the phones are still filled, and we ... . So anyway, I miss being a prefrosh because CPW was the best thing EVAR ... 7:17 pm Tonight is the EA admit telethon, wherein we spend all night

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest in the world and being in an environment where people are always ... concussion-detecting device they named the Jolt sensor. While wrestling at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  everything was going to be processed via first class mail. Unfortunately, the ... compounded by the fact that people in Alaska have received their decisions ... say that (1) the Post Office is dealing with insane amounts of mail due

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... mid-sentence when the lights flickered and went off. The hundred+ physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  Pi day is almost here, when all the hard work from both applicants and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... hitting the gym? Besides, after this humongous pie I'd say it's time for a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  tasks to keep up with the constant flooding of orders being placed. When ... , or go to the Museum of Science. It was interesting, being a part of a ... for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  night, I can be found standing by the bathrooms with my face pressed ... experimental results to help people and change the world. Also, let’s be honest ... being able to branch off into other fields, and apply the problem

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  weird being out of the norm. It's strange that I still feel that way, like ... a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack of costumes worn during the day around MIT's campus. I personally was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much ... thereby increase the efficiency of daily lives--like, for example, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  quick lunch, then come back here to soak up the internet. And be lazy ... 've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in ... free plane tickets, but I am so tired of being alert and awake. I am also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad ... 's a hall) of East Campus called the Disco Dance Floor. Matt blogged ... (I am not that lame) because this is about the start-up company that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn ... , circuit-build, and code—culminating in a solar-powered night light. The project was very cute and a good means to pick up skills. The experience was

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  -to-god heroes, not to mention being some of the most simultaneously hardcore and ... (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a ... research. still others take the opportunity to travel through MIT MISTI. some

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels, hidden away from view even more than the average student. (I graduated

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus ... stepped out onto the front steps, I felt compelled to pull out my phone and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  to the discussions around me. Everyone else seemed to be teaching ... more because of the feeling that I should be teaching technical classes ... -A grades are not the only ways to be successful (props to you if you are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006