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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no ... ...well...anyone else parties. In other news, Dave thanked me for answering his question, saying, "Thanks for the info; although it may seem strange to care about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes ... # of AP's for admitted kids was 5 or 6 (that's total for all 4 years of ... brought nothing else to the table. And that's not who we're looking for at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  just a silly little baby that [annotation note="When I showed up on the ... split the class into 10 teams of approximately 100 kids, and for every ... held up with midterms and only finished this post today. "]September 23

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  for the first time, because you know questions will come up over and ... on the back, which you’ve wanted for like two years. take the extra ... instructor note - it’s a snow day announcement. endorse an answer for the first

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  came up and slipped a card into my hand. Bewildered, I looked around for ... )-funded program under the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) umbrella. It ... "rotation measures" for each millisecond pulsar (MSP) in the globular cluster

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  before I opened up my decision, and for once, things actually went as I ... write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this a bit later. I was scheduling a different blog for today, but then I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an ... born. After some more planning, I wrote up the Tunnel66 site, requested ... to a project that preserves some of that energy for this year's ad

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  making contact with this molten mess would be quite unfortunate for both ... part of the creation (you also pour a little water on the neckline for ... would most likely fail and all his snowman friends would laugh at him for

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  . As promised, Sam showed up wearing a suit, holding a giant box of ... -not-so-Secret Santa made me a beautiful little light-up paper Christmas tree (and bought ... towels this week, or 2) suck it up and put them in the laundry. I picked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  stay up all tonight to start and finish a stupid HASS paper." Evoking ... units." Checkmate. The victor's sub sandwich is up, he grabs it and ... the amount of work they had done for a class--"Oh, I didn't even bother

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  , they just confirmed tickets to come up here for another weekend around ... back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has been three months-ish since I got on campus over the summer. For just

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  this morning, but check out what the Boston Globe had for its weather forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is ... ! As usual, we will primarily be looking for incoming freshman; however

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’ve ever taken at MIT. Part of the reason for that is that one of my classes ... of other classes. For that reason, 21F.702 (Spanish II) and 14.02 (Macroeconomics), two candidates for a fifth class, were not truly feasible. But, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• 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).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years, as I'm working at CTD again this year as an RTA for Neuroscience and living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the ... buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... curfew or parental supervision - actually studying for classes - moving

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  reality of my existence. It’s too easy for me to get caught up in my studies ... , head to toe.) Think: Total Drama Island throw up. I felt so bad for ... , our group split up. As Kano went to search for a dress for [annotation

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to ... probably would've spent five minutes there and then made up some excuse ("I ... it to do this? Make something up. "We should definitely meet up soon

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  up to; as an applicant, seeing other applicants brag about their skills ... that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its “buildy” culture (like the awesome, huge structures East Campus puts up in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the ... , these are it. First up—FPOPs! FPOPs: First-Year Pre-Orientation Programs ... part of the FPOP actually ended up being learning about rocket propulsion

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  projectionist for the club. After all, I reasoned, college is a time to try out new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was ... on 35 mm projection for the Spirited Away screening that weekend and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022