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• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  debating the finer points of reaction scheduling in a batch process with our ... :00 - 11:00 AM: The last two thirds of cell biology lecture (I miss the first ... home after astronomy when my phone rang. It was Julianna, one of my ICE

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  : 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of whipped cream 2 jars of sprinkles 2 jars of cherries 3 boxes of brownie mix 3 boxes of cake batter 3 tubs of icing 4 decorating gels 4 packages of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  first impression of Manhattan was cemented by the shockingly audacious ... like pop-up ads delivered by Godzilla In search of internal peace and ... blogger extraordinaire by night, would consider one of the best meals in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  ! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy ... befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Admissions officer. CONGRATS LILLY YOU ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. WE ALL

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  series by Orson Scott Card.  Unlike many of the MIT students that I know, I ... time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  office by checking out the concert by the Chorallaries. Hundreds of people ... /musical pun name only rivaled by the MIT Logarhythms). [This is my second live ... ago] A few of the numbers they've done tonight: White Flag (Dido

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  -themed menu complemented by a spasm of last-minute surprises: stir, simmer ... over honey walnut bread, chased by burgers under smothering spoonfuls of ... bloom of forgiveness into stomach and heart embittered by 2.5 hours of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the cool stuff they make. (Sponsored by Make magazine, of course.) There ... :00 pm. You can see it on the schedule here. By the way, Chris P (King of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  , 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson ... cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American culture." Second, the Boston Globe had this photo and caption today: A ton of snow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... entire human genome, so that we now know the location of all human genes ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I ... encouraged to attend by Tina (my host). My favorite was the parody of Justin ... By Emily Zhao '12 Hey, my name is Emily. Sorry this guest entry is

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  geeks out as I visit the National Gallery of London to see works by Saurat ... years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited ... all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  bedtime by a couple of hours. To first order, I'm sleeping as I type this ... free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test book, glanced at the first page, and felt my face melt into a puddle of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"... Favorite commercial: Intel and its support of ... programs, including a nice shot of MIT's own Elena Glassman '08 winning the

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

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  like 5 hours of sleep from making my  [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7 ... exams before Monday morning; this led to some frantic texting of friends to attempt to acquire a copy of the practice exam and answers so that I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General ... ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  tens of other posts written by tens of other bloggers instead of being so ... until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... distracting herself by marathoning a TV show (possibly Firefly, again), playing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  Boston Public Library - Venue of the Class of 2020 Ring Delivery photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the (almost) halfway point of getting through MIT. It marks many psets and exams

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of ... penguin Kidist A. ’22 of Georgia (the state), who likes to cite tweets by ... Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  . Saturday Stop by Fairfield, CT, the headquarters of engineering giant GE and ... through the Big Apple? Stop by one of our biggest Admitted Student Meetings ... Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012