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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  from eight grueling hours of training. We're required to work at least ... 've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them to cancel my room at Burton 1, since I'm not home day or night, and my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... meeting. I had dinner with two of the Philly EC's, Mark and Steve, at a nice ... dirty old man. 2) At the end when I talk about the advancement of women

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  lobby of our hotel, to the tune of $10/day. Ouch. At 5:30 PM, we got the ... presentation. Finished at 3AM - I forget how productive I am in the wee hours of ... booths (as they would at a normal college fair) and then GC's come around

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  audience some great stories from his time at Burton Connor, one of the MIT ... project. I don't think I've ever felt as much of an engineer as I did at ... My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  talking to people outside of the MIT bubble. Basia and I once had lunch at ... One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP ... up a thick clump of snow and flung them at Kevin, but they scattered ... demonstrated. By flinging balls of snow at me :( And then he said those magic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do ... : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack Something, following the proper etiquette (Hacker's Code of Ethics) which is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  , at the very beginning of the semester. Since then, all the sophomores ... get started with this entry, let me dust the cobwebs out of your head ... night on May 8th. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say that was a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year, largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  entire sheet of looseleaf paper) But there is light at the end of the ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I ... . It's an entire sheet of loose-leaf paper. With 2 exceptions, every item

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  ) The chef at ZBT is wonderful, and I enjoy many of her creations -- flan ... (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... 's Habitat for Humanity group Like Elyse, Christi is busy busy; one of her

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the steps of the traditional planning process—looking at past events ... somewhere at the back of my mind, taking up space. All of our new planning has ... none of the ones we had looked at. The announcement has a lot of big

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... of activities: Applied Math Lab Tours, Tie Dye at McCormick, the MIT ... I was fascinated to see not just people at (and climbing out of

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead ... favorite class at the beginning of the semester to my least favorite nearing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  from this course. The most popular questions are discussed at the end of ... -regular exhibit at the MIT Museum as part of their Student Gallery Cart program, and ... so much hope for the next THREE YEARS of learning whatever I want at my

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... : "At MIT, we seek to develop in each member of our community the ability ... A few months ago the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  Beaches and Bioreactors summer is gone and I'm trying to move on

  

  of, I'm still not very good) Hiking at Acadia National Park UROPing ... practically over once the Fourth of July passes. And she’s sort of right, at ... nothing at all. As I return to the turbulence of the school year, times

  • by Nicholas R. '29
  • September 25, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  read the first chapter of Fun Home at the start of my junior year of high ... on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit ... probably be higher if I felt capable of Actually Understanding Poetry, but I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  know that you could only be awaiting (all of) my money to support your fine establishment. Yet I return with the greatest of news--I have ... shakshuka, dreaming of your labneh, thirsting after your pistachio croissants

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025