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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  corridors that do happen to be indoors are famous and steeped with historical ... half-day sample of the Stanford Experience. Being home briefly for summer ... --Stanford's pretty different from MIT. It's a very different atmosphere to be walking

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  feel like a boss right now. Sometimes, even during IAP, even after being ... and tell myself that everything’s going to be alright. How the class itself goes will be another story, but I do like looking up at a clear

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  , you'll be like that spacecraft tumbling out of control - going wherever ... enough. Early success is a terrible teacher. You’re essentially being ... skills to be mastered is simply too great to be able to figure it all out

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  Macklemore.  You know, this guy: The concert will be in MIT's Johnson ... Might Be Giants / Reel Big Fish 1999: Busta Rhymes 1998: Maceo Parker ... : Soul Coughing 1995: Sonic Youth 1994: Belly 1993: They Might Be Giants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  : (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for ... .  fun fact #2: there will always be at least one light on in the Green ... off will be the day of the apocalypse) Some background: every October

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  lifestyle, which somewhat stipulates that every living moment, you should be ... -minute walk from studio. That cannot be healthy or economical in the long run ... procedure, there must be other factors that determine whether you did it well

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  ’t received one, we will be sending out more this month, so check your mailbox. Once you register on MyMIT, you will be ready to begin the application ... learn something new about yourself. We’ll be in touch over the

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  them would be great and cool. But the project he's currently working on ... kickstarter will be successful or not. But to some degree that's beside the point (though I hope it will be, and am backing it, because I would like a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online ... is that if you are an awesome person, you will be awesome wherever you ... be with you. 

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... , let's be real - who wants to read about my wisdom teeth?) While they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  comments. Go ahead. Don't be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To ... anyway, I'd be happy to attempt to answer questions about things like ... tell you about my semester before I go. Briefly: 18.821 ended up being

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... said earlier, the Apple environment could be cultish. He could, according to popular accounts and to others I knew at Apple, be a real jerk to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  more challenges than the other cities we will be visiting during the ... already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything ... for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  In Matt’s latest post he says that MyMIT will be up August 19. This ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time ... be required reading of all MIT students.” Prospective students take

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  Tomorrow night, the final Harry Potter movie will be relased.  Here ... Deathly Hallows, was being delivered to the doorsteps of muggles, the Dark ... , and Snape). Bathrooms were relabeled to be for "Wizards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  's just say, at the bottom of everything was a turd. That would be me and ... also discussing if a House of Poo Poo near MIT would be successfulâ ... dining experience? Personally, it's nice to be able to say "been there

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  "friend^2" would be a friend of a "friend", a "friend^3" would be a friend ... some of the more well-known hacks and figured it'd be worth sharing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  ). We'll be doing more travel together as a group to meet with prospective ... few weeks ago, there won't be any waitlist news until early-mid May. As ... idea if we'll be going to the waitlist, and if so how many students we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  Admissions Officers will give some closing thoughts, and there will be 7 really ... examples of a cappella.) Kim actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I used to be in the Logs (back in our undergrad days). These are, of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  companies, is what a day as an intern is like. What would I be doing, who ... decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts and I can imagine them being lots of fun (for me

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010