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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  Boston”s annual Walk for Hunger to combat the hunger pervasive in many of ... service to all mankind.   Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. For over ... -Hellenic Council, Inc. ( NPHC also referred to as "The Divine 9") and the National

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  1. We will wait for your materials. We are not going to be mean to ... processed all materials. It may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the tracking system (even for electronic documents). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed ... " declaration. We all wish to thank Dr. Auroux for his outstanding fall 2006 18 ... Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  to have tiny Santas). The recipe says to bake for an hour, but in ... you are for whatever reason someday required to secretly make them and ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  David Helfand: "Unfortunately we don't have time for a formal Q&A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... scientific poster labels and official conference badges for him to sign. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  ’s talk). The question: how long does it take for all audience members to ... robust. Plus it allows for simple modifications to account for the ... developed long before language, which is why it’s easier for us to think

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  control you!", which I've been trying unsuccessfully to write for the past ... decided to keep it for this month. Except for getting food caught in it, it ... ...but I really would like to blog about it when it comes out for real on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  the party so that I could pretend to sleep for half an hour before ... , Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  us to Boston. I talked to the boy for a moment, running through the ... to Nashville for the flight), where he was living (Simmons, the same as ... about 1,000 degrees, which I would have to deal with for the next month or

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  someone [annotation note="which, for the record, I am paid to do"]I write ... Tuesday evenings, for three hours, and during each class you’d get to hear ... certainly. For a play to be satisfying, though, that uncertainty has to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  and I are going to teach a class on behavioral economics for HSSP, and ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... things I've done to explain why I've been away from this platform. To be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  , so we headed down intending to take over their fire and chill for a bit ... large bonfire, their reason for being there unknown to us. It was starting ... had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then ... you to seek out the answers for yourself, sending you off on a journey ... teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  , I still wanted to be able to take a break and do some things for fun ... So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what 12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... . At some dorms it's even normal for freshmen to have singles (most ... (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  going to “waste” it. Yes, it fortunately ended up working out well for me ... slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was ... a good thing or a bad thing, but I’m going to count this as a win for ... would be too old to be gallivanting through the streets and asking for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask ... ’d spotted on the map. I decided to shoot for it, telling myself not to get my ... my jacket not long after, for it began to rain. And rain. And rain. But

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... eye. What does it mean, then, for one object to appear "twice as bright ... just a fancy word for "direction." Another way to understand this "linear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U.S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017