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• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  free energy drinks. They also had a dunk tank, which was only in ... Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  , and I'm in regular contact with my friends, sending out dispatches about ... was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  generally hanging out with friends. I can’t say I don’t miss the thrill of ... I should start as the only blogger in [annotation note="civil and ... Mechanics, which I took in the fall. Last semester, I learned all about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  , you don't sound like a college professor in real life!" I'm sure now ... next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are ... passions in high school, from research (I don't know how many ISEF and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  draft for months now, I just wanted to get it out. Next time in ... behind MIT's logo, and MIT's graphic identity in general. I'll take a ... the MIT Faculty in their collections. I sent in a request to retrieve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person ... major. In 2015, as a crimson- and short-haired freshman with glasses, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  if I can find one that fits in my schedule and one that I'm interested ... I don't make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don't even use ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  , when I’m sitting in the solar car, I can’t see behind me. There is no ... fiction,’ I can assure you it is not :) Background Info (Not really a story ... ,[/annotation] Mcpherson, KS, Dodge City, KS, [annotation note="Nimby, I don't think we're in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  , hard-to-reach views (can you guess where in Simmons this was?) If I ... Simmons nor Baker work out, I could always live in the best room on campus ... , I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not ... 4th to come. At least, I can't. :D But at least I am done with grad

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  in Pasadena. I felt dumb, but I hung out at Rax's house for a few hours ... (For those who don't know/can't figure out, "Camberville" is a ... student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  off half a tablet, i can just put the other half back in the container ... the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  the start of the long weekend, i asked myself what i really wanted out ... . so now, i'm taking [annotation note="i'll probably elaborate on them in ... operating systems lab with the precious few late hours left that i'd had -- i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  subjects if you’re trying to figure out what to major in. It can give you ... AP credit—the worst out of any school I researched when applying. If you score a 5 on Calculus BC, you can get out of 18.01, Single

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention ... be involved." I emailed the students in charge of the DEAL program

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  , I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures ... in order to do that, I have to teach you quantum mechanics. It'll just ... because I was in the back row, but here is a pretty good picture of the top

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  , getting swept up in the energy of a new academic year. But this fall, I am ... Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions ... rewritten) specifically for you. I have the best job in the world, because I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  . And since I can't really pick which one I most want to tell you about, I ... headquarters was located, and started pitching in. For about the next 48 hours, I ... happen at MIT. In addition to helping out with a bunch of traditional pen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  even broader. If I can get into some of the top schools in the nation ... Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  allowed me to explore the limits of what I can do, in ways that I never ... ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... because I'm ultimately not sure how many of these attributes of humans can

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024