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• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the ... did an incredible job of processing things well beyond the deadline. On ... excuse to let go of the process a little bit. You've done everything you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and ... singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this ... into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

    Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time ... being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... (Residence Exploration). REX is where each of the dorms pulls out all the stops

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the ... of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved excitement for being here, at MIT, with some of the most incredible people in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence halls are available on the Housing site. ... More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a ... all!) fully enjoying the anonymity of the Internet as I subtly brainwash

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the ... buses arrived in a cloud of dust and we stormed the orchard, wielding ... and a bottle of apple cider, we sat down between the animal pens and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were in the room. “Madeline,” one of them said, “meet the Logs.” And then, in unison, “Hi Madeline.” One of the boys kneeled. “We actually have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and ... culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my sophomore year to watch as many of the IMDb Top 100 films that I could. It was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of ... involves the moment of inertia and omega (angular velocity (what we're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  other side of the table feels both intriguing and odd.   [caption ... , looking at the other cruft blog posts[/caption] As one of the least crufty of the cruft (for now 😳), I wasn’t too sure what to write about. I don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post ... the US. Addis Ababa doesn’t have a lot of tools and parts readily or ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a

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

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  to vacation together during the summer before I and each of my two ... , and I'm pretty proud of that. Anyway, at the end of the game, I dove ... , but at the price of torpedoing myself neck-first into the turf. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra ... above), and the walls are covered with an eclectic mishmash of posters ... : lived in. The hallways of MIT are alive. From well before 9:00 am to well

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  working on over the past week. Some of these science experiments include a ... . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... . But it is all in the name of science. All events taking place over the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... ) The chef at ZBT is wonderful, and I enjoy many of her creations -- flan ... of this sunk cost. I held the square very loosely and walked by the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and ... you should all sign up for) and the rest of the time participating in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  Thursday and the last day of classes was the Thursday before, so I had a week ... my brain went to mush when I think I'd attempted my fourth read of the ... . Battle of the Walls: me: shouldn't you be studying like i am pretending to

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007