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• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... event. Friends, this is the Green Building, home to EAPS ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... using only four letters. Each word in the story is three letters long. The ... , your DNA is identical in every cell of your body. It contains all the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... particular airline. I don’t think the problem is the self check-in machine or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  is no longer the case) Gedion gets most of his parts from Mercato, the ... attends LG Technical School (as in, LG the Korean mobile phone company) in ... braided my hair)    Gedion is pretty phenomenal. In many ways, he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  studying abroad is how expensive everything seems... In fact, the annual cost ... when I had overheard him chatting to someone in the halls about the ... in the year, schoolwork overloads caused me to pull several all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  attend the most prestigious university I’d been admitted to. I wanted to be ... together in this universe, to be the collective result of every decision made ... a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  of cash it took to buy the T-shirt) and recruiters itching for coders ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with ... Student Center steps. I don't know why the lighting in this photo is so ... dragged me to the also-fairly-delicious Felipe's Taqueria in Harvard Square

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  there isn't anything else left to accomplish. But in reality, success is ... ' heads. That girl over on the right had a hovering 1200. And the kid in the back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  members who must apply to their departments in order to lecture, and the ... supervision system is considered to be the highlight of the Cambridge ... . The main advantage to the supervisions is that the example sheets are

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  this one is the most difficult answer to get. Every student on the ... September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... this is the answer that all our applicants want to see when the decisions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  screwed up. I walked back to the Oranienburg train station almost in a daze ... 've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  I gained by moving to MIT is so much richer in a lot of ways than the ... used to say, “Walk in like you own the place.” Marching through the ... move very far away (Boston). Before coming to MIT, I had lived in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  guide and decided to (try to) build a human pyramid in the middle of Lobby ... to worry about work. This was by far the most exciting experience I ... ,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  "unsubscribe" to further spam the thread is unclear, but the in-joke still ... is dedicated to the social mailing list, the kind of mailing list that ... put up some time in march 2020. it's still up. it goes to show how much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the ... , fans who ventured to Manchester in the storm for the Monarch's game on ... game too. One of the benefits of being at MIT is access to the MITAC

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  the ring bezel. After much debate, the committee decided to adorn the ... created in 1929, the ring's official name is the "Standard Technology Ring ... design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  the four-ish inches we currently have is enough to close down the Institute and the city governments. My IAP so far has taken place mostly in ... , running errands and working. Today was supposed to be much of the same, but

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  hard work is withering away. In the meantime, three of us went to the ... to go home, but you can’t stay here. In truth, I’m one of the lucky ... 'm a junior, which is quite frankly the most uneventful of the Spring

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020