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• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  at work, you're neglecting some other aspect of your life. because that ... board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people ... . this summer, and my internship, are different in a lot of ways. the bay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  of my friends in high school who were coming to compete. We meet at ... dinner, and take a train to Princeton. As we arrive at Princeton, one of my ... friends from HMMT at PJ’s, but with none of the friends I had from PROMYS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  This is my friend Kat '10, and she's one of my very favorite people ... meet a lot of extraordinarily cool people, like Kat '10. She's got very ... Hunt winner blogger (my money's on Evan for next year, though). She of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... . He's gone through a series of various door-opening mechanisms over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are ... most of the remaining time I have with these people, because they're so ... I am today. . . . while cultivating new friendships! Many of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  party at Fuzio. We did, as a matter of fact, eat at 7 PM. WITH SEVEN ... got into an early habit of ignoring it. After I turned 7 on 07/07, it ... /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Glimpses of Haiti Just a small fraction of the things I saw while in Port-Au-Prince.

  

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary ... …  Today, my collection of school supplies consists of my ipad, my apple pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general ... . Once. And that pretty much constitutes the entirety of my previous

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life. There were moments of frustration and exhaustion, but also a whole lot of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  Perhaps the second most exciting time of the year (after selecting the incoming class) is the selection of the new bloggers. And now, with freshman orientation quickly approaching, that time of year is upon us! As

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student ... ="aligncenter" width="171"] It do be like that sometimes[/caption] Cream soda was one of ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  pretty cool, to be good at math. I hear that's sort of useful around here ... So here's the new plan: instead of me always spending all week ... , anecdotes, lots of links, and coherent structure, and then only getting around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  looking at the skyline. 12. The parkour wall A consequence of Simmons ... my first year at MIT thinking that [annotation note ... guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may hear around campus here at CPW! contents: glossary: a random assortment of words you may hear majors, minors, and class names further

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  backlog into January. Do not send a second copy of any document at this time ... The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  (well, at least I think that's what they're for...my knowledge of British ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to around -5 F at night, and yet I stayed (mostly) warm.   The secret to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015