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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students. Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  Now that the semester has started, it's an opportune time to ... bake dozens and dozens of cookies? The scintillating answer to those ... making, I have no problems with contributing to life lesson #2 But beyond

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  'welcome to MIT' freshmen experience, began on Saturday. Today, Denzil Sikka ... their words. They'd like to write about why 'Going Greek' was the best ... ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with?" and "Tell us something funny, we read a lot of these!" It seemed to go

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... rollerbladed to the train station. (Incidentally, rollerblades and trains are not a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and ... offer any advice it's just to emote. Let your psychological immune system ... 'll give you two sentences to stop reading. The rest of this post will be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did ... me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break ... of 2013 facebook group. Sophomores and juniors can attest to the fact

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  I was extremely stoked to finally visit. Not only was it my first time ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  MIT Student Center who happen to read this blog and remember that one ... , however, accurately reflect the views of the author. Much to my disappointment, nary a single spambot showed up to the CPW Meet the Bloggers night

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the ... about twenty-five minutes. It seems like the right time to start an ... /D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle. Over Kresge. I hope you got to see this, it's a pretty incredible sight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... RA there (basically, Residential Life funds cool events I want to run ... ). I also helped run the Assassins' Guild "Guildcamp" (Paul has to report

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  House, had a holiday dinner on Saturday night! (We're supposed to have a ... 're supposed to be International House, after all! =D Afterwards, we also had ... card to Boston Tea Stop (the closest bubble tea shop from MIT - in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  , they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not ... inspired and ready to accomplish our goals (the "girl power" spirit was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... campus copy center) to be copied -- 1000 doubled-sided, folded copies are ... : The 100th student arrives! 9:55am: Snively! 10:30am: It's starting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007