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• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  get the hang of it, it was a ton of fun! Rowing shells move a lot faster ... Rowing at MIT The heavyweight men near the Museum of Science. PC ... Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  software interviews, and hanging out with a bunch of coders is always fun ... this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  of people hanging out in there. It was less about who won the ... the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower ... out last year about the making of tetris and it’s so great. It’s about

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... school year of studying. Luckily, MIT understands that its students ... in 34-401 (A room at MIT where a lot of EECS events take place) talking

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  of American Universities which sought to prevent and respond to sexual ... -Descriptive Mentions of Homophobia, and Discussion of Trauma ((Some Author’s Commentary.)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a ... of sugar. I was reminded of the days when Halloween meant spooky

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  own 31 different teas, mostly decaf. I also currently own 6 flavors of seltzer and 2 flavors of kombucha. Wholesome. 8.02 (“Eight-oh-two”): the ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  in a fresh layer of panic, bolted outside in 40-degree wind chill, ran ... Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That ... a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... . Cory is reading a book (I think it was One Hundred Years of Solitude). I ... notes that are still on the board from the part of lecture I missed. I try

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  arduous task of hanging my posters on the walls of my dorm room. There is ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  kill me later. I spent some of Friday night hanging out with Dorota '10 ... weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  pants say "MU" and "Mizzou" (University of Missouri). 5. Flat Ryan with ... feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You ... laughing because he was laughing!") 4. You get to tell these kinds of stories

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  interning at my goal company in Seattle and hanging out with a bunch of ... with those of the people around me. I'd be lying if I said that none of ... frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  philosophy -- it was everything i ever wanted in a university. but i kind of ... hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all ... relationship with mit like on one of those public facebook post thingies it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of genetics at Boston University; and Becky ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central ... construction was done, but it wasn't until last Sunday and the urging of friends

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans across the world. And of course, MIT has more than its fair share of HP ... I be doing for the big release? Let me tell you about some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  I'm kind of confused - if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble ... to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of ... disappoints. 7:30pm–8:45pm Official Welcome for Parents. Perhaps one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  accomplishments and those of my friends, we couldn't help but feel some degree of ... I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006