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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn or sermon, but it's not. It's the title for this post. It's quite fun ... the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the ... though she's 3,000 miles away and doesn't particularly care for large

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  . I definitely had an awesome time hosting events for Burton Conner and getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  (Sam Standard Time) right now and I need to leave for Boston in less than ... see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... mile. Today was the only day I'll be in Harrisburg between June 1st and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  young age and for pay in Italy. This internship opportunity gave Laura ... Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent her summer in Venice, Italy through an informal internship

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  neediness in terms of paying for college, are from middle class families. I really do think universities need to do more to make college affordable for ... underrepresented group in American universities is low income students) Trivia. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  : n. MIT jargon for prospective student]. It involved many late nights ... left before 8pm), but in the end, everyone was matched. You have a host ... hosted meetings with the MIT student hosts for CPW. One meeting overflowed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  back in like ’99. Eventually I was there for like a year and all my ... across in life, like for me moving from studio to studio, moving from ... . It was set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, but in order for us to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... , for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  paid or earn credit for it."]UROPs[/annotation] from the Tangible Media ... . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  working in Solidworks (a program used for modeling on the computer) and ... Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  across the river in Boston. It's basically an excuse for companies to give ... 't attend as a college student, I was there for Livescribe, demoing and ... you seen this pen? In addition to that, I also spent some time being

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  plastic for $$$ and nobody took debit. I set out in search of an ATM as the ... settled in to wait for the show. It's 8:00 PM at this point. The lighting ... think that I have an ear for a band's sound since I was so involved in

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... for you. Hot dog contests, Toy Fair, snowball fights, the Ig Nobels, and ... in the easiest physics class offered). Getting sick, dragging myself to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  that scores from the December 1 tests would reach us in time for EA ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  in your mood for some reason. maybe you actually like chaos, or maybe ... true for everything else in the world as well. caring about external ... both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  since I could barely walk. So I waited for the pain-killers to set in ... hurricane. Remember that big hurricane in 2012? It was that one. My friend Kayla E. '15 and I decided that it was a great idea to go out for a run

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  some authority told everyone in line that there was no point to wait for ... weren’t waiting in line for nothing. But to our utter surprise, she said ... 's child, baking, for the first time in her life, can't mask her problems

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... ="Intro to Computer Science and Programming in Python. Runs for one quarter"]6 ... much as I can to make it easier for myself in future [annotation note

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... Victoria will be staying with me!!!   Although Victoria and I planned for me ... about you to maximize your experience when you come here. For example, my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013