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• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day ... sometimes we get caught up in things that don't actually mean as much as we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  myself, "Do I really need to go to lecture?" That answer happened to be no ... , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  needs to be up, who then wakes up the next person who has to be up, and so ... to make us feel better. However, there are some nice things about ... reading their parts in French when it was their turn to read from the book

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I ... DID YOU KNOW? Prussian Monarch Frederick William used to kidnap ... royal guard. Like a freshman? Haha, no, you aren't allowed to do that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  much all Course 10 tests are open notes. The 10.10: Intro to Chemical ... , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  just need to look like one for the night. Before the first time I went ... chapter always angst about this and try to figure out why and what to do ... -Blood Prince. We also got to see the printing presses. I bet most people have

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

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  ; Once the 2016 election was over, we wanted to make sure that this could ... Vote to help them register to vote, be reminded about local elections, and even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  figuring out where to live, so don't worry TOO much about it. CPW is about ... members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... , and most importantly....food. (seriously, there's so much food for you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... summer leading up to MY freshman year I haunted these blogs and I expect

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  once the second semester started. In order to compensate for the ... did not know what to do outside of work once the summer came around. The ... studying rather than going to whatever social thing my friends were doing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  what I expected, but it's so hard to tell how much of that is due to this ... wanted to know was, how does it make me feel? I think I'll have to do ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  in snow, thick white snow that looked like they would be so much fun to ... closer to our dorm. I couldn’t believe how much the morning had been full ... , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  steak, but it does have an interesting, distinct texture. Oh to know such ... was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  too much involvement in the Philippines before, so it was our job to ... -government organizations) to hear about their day-to-day technology needs, and ultimately ... My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... the badly-peeling varnish layer, but somehow I never got around to painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... addressed to the Henry County High School senior. Once Gillespie got over his ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  practiced landing twice, once in each role. Then, it was time to go out solo ... pushed the rudder away and pulled the sail rope in…and then needed to pull ... towards the Midwest region but was really open to anyone. Basically, I sat

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , however, accurately reflect the views of the author. Much to my ... Center. (Secondary factoid: The primary factoid does not indicate that I ... MIT Student Center who happen to read this blog and remember that one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009