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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  arrived in Bath bright and early around 10am. That means waking up at 5 am ... emptying garbage bins in the cold, when the sun wasn’t even up yet, I felt really grateful. For everything. After having lived abroad for 7 years

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  , we make up a diverse class which makes for an amazing culture of ... amazing things happening on campus. Nevertheless, my love for the blogs and ... classes at MIT. Despite the fact that I've only been here for a couple days

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... to move out. For Next House, residents that weren't graduating had to ... little dejected. It must've gotten Stockholm syndrome from being at MIT for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to ... upperclassmen. Well…I’m not freshman no mo’…so… TIME TO GROW UP.) I’ve had a few ... rushed to the art supply store to buy materials that I didn't end up using

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  ’s auditing 6.00, but I think we all know that he just signed up for it so he ... .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... student” (if such a thing even exists!) – for starters, check out the shirt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment ... 's just that Cambridge streets are really more paved for those with slightly ... crevice pretty much sends me flying ten feet through the air - useful for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... leaving for another planet. But that's how it is. This is not the Earth ... up. But The Land of MIT is a new planet altogether. And here's a quick

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  Yesterday was a big day for the news media, what with the automotive ... already posses a Spanish nickname (a must-have for recognition as a member ... learn and had bought Santa hats and candies. It was time for a second

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for ... hours tooling for a C on a test, and you should take pride in your ... place in the world, and definitely not perfect for everyone. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs ... Office matters to me: it's where I pick up the twenty (give or take) problem sets I'm responsible for grading every Friday, and where I bring

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  freshmen beating themselves up on every sun-swept corner of campus. Perhaps ... allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... with an unearthly chorus of low self-esteem for the past week. Take a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  actually looking up stuff for my philosophy class (minds and machines) - I ... (up in the Himalayas). I'll be there for a month, working to fight the ... there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities

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

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  . This morning I woke up at 5:30 and went skating for a couple of hours. I ... + Roller Blades = awesome. Rumor has it that I can get a fine for skating inside buildings but nobody has yelled at me yet (well, except for Copy

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  up for the bouncy ball drop at Senior House, or the human hamster wheel ... parent who registered for a Financial Aid session - okay, it was the candy ... … I did snag a hot dog at Theta Delt (thank you for your kindness to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  to Michael Fauntleroy Stopheles (M.F. Stopheles, for short) for a mere ... could rise in power for a showdown with the devil. Along the way, they ... Discipline of selling one's soul." This opened up a whole new series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  with the Greek Griller - free bbq for everyone, and you can go around and ... find out more about frats, girls go for fun. Oh, and the food. Steak and ... time for... - being a social member of French House, a cultural hall in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  study at MIT, what must be it be like for all these freshmen who grew up ... brilliantly, by putting up my finger like I just temporarily forgot where I ... for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  on what I was up to this weekend: Thursday night: At the opening ... read this blog by spreading the word that UROP stands for Undergraduate ... would put a picture up, but teratomas are a rather shocking sight. My

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  anything. But should it be? Hmmm... You have no idea how excited I was for ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will ... of Project Runway at Television Without Pity to keep myself up to date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend ... math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... any fancy research internships or go to any summer camps; he worked for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005