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• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  the stress level on campus would be pretty high right now, most of my ... the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... across the east side of campus for my UROP (more about that later) when I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... . These are resident-produced videos that showcase the culture of each dorm. They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  RING! It feels so good! I have many pictures from and of the event ... C. '16 explained in his post about Ring Premiere what the design of ... 's together! Here are some pictures of the event and of my beautiful friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... Lebowski," "Almost Famous") stole the show as Gust Avrakotos, one of the few

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... reveal this year's new bloggers, I'd like to share with you some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... familiar, it's probably because you've seen the work of his distant relative, Oliver Smoot '62, while walking across the Harvard Bridge. As part of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest ... for Easter 2006: When Jen was an undergrad she wrote comics for The ... , check out Jennifer's Bakery. I hope you have a good Easter, Passover

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a ... climb on the team scoresheet. We then took our pick of the water, Gatorade

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of ... aspects of the fall semester for the most part.  Going into the fall ... part of my first semester at the institute: 7 classes passed Somehow

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual

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

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  benefit from the type of opportunities GEL provides? In other words, does ... A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... confident in their the ability to “function effectively as a member of a team

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  night filled with pretty good food, and A LOT of dancing afterwards. The ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  failure did not determine the rest of my academic career. Fast forward 16 ... experiments: 2nd Grade: Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over? 6th Grade ... same column of desks in class and proclaimed ourselves the cool row

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early ... have completed the processing of the materials submitted, I will post ... that we have downloaded the file, that does not mean that we have yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  after completion of the fall semester or second quarter (if your school ... . This is similar to the Self-Reported Coursework Form from the Part 2 of ... looking for another essay here. The Midyear Update has a maximum of 250

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  of papers and a lighter into the courtyard alone. I didn’t care who was ... , anything that reminded me of the things I’d decided to leave behind. As I ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... rejection can't really derail things that badly if you kept sight of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly ... committee called the House Dining Advisory Group (HDAG), composed of administrators and students, was set up to explore new options. At the end of this

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can. It will save you and us some ... While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005