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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  campus, I can’t wait for summer to end. I missed you guys! ... the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  , doesn't see the zombies as a threat, forcing hackers to help protect the ... convenient and easily accessible form of defense. Some are oblivious to the threat and are confused by the need for a chainsaw in a box. They will be

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  ; the latter is to raise money for leukemia research, and was started by ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... Snapple, cheered for the runners, and not-so-jokingly announced I would run

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  , pictured below: You may think it's repetitive for me to post two pictures ... to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not necessarily things that we are expected to do, etc.... and then when he spoke

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a story for another day. For now, here are three excerpts from conversations ... window and try to guess what's just outside the contextual frame. I wish I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least ... Playfair, we all headed over to the Student Center for a party with more free ... been touched on yet. "/> Our CityDays project involved going to the

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  number of requests for college recommendations in past years. He said that some students abused his time by never actually submitting the letters to ... letters written by other teachers. To deter this, he now charges $20 per

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEn ... graduating (aside from the chicken farm!) and reached out to him for this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  ’s actually some competition for the positions, though MIT has lower barriers to ... Period), there's an Externship Program for students to work in alumni ... Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over ... strangers submitted a story to magazines for the first time attended Alpha

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us! 1. Hearing While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... also simply awesome beyond all reason (koodos to Cross Products, muy

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  .02 Multivariable Calculus, worked. I looked forward to doing the homeworks for it ... to consider myself lucky, for deadlines are continuous (and safe ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  analyze. I found a native speaker ([annotation note="Shoutout to him for ... simple to be true but was good enough for my purposes. (I later asked ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  traveling to destinations across the globe for training and competitions ... , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers. Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  for you to cover and so much stuff to do while you're here that you ... moment, there's plenty of reasons for you to venture away from campus and ... have to take my word or Google's word for it, since I forgot to take

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  time to take in everything around me. For the most part, campus looked ... I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn ... to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully ... different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019