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• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  friends, so clearly since I had the opportunity to do so this year, I ... . I received an email in my inbox that read: yesterday was someone ... done first. bryan: you're in charge. if the work isn't done, you're the

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling ... -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... was at school. Those things included: buying groceries, cooking for ... actively cultivating a social life (so much harder when you don't live in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  fundraisers in Lobby 10 Making good friends who cook for themselves Creating a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  you is to get in and then receive your award.']clearly communicable ... like [annotation note='In fact, now that I think of it, many aspects of ... . I am still Tarnished but no longer maidenless. Meanwhile, in Ceri I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?) departments ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ ... program in economics (either Masters or PhD), though it can also be in finance, mathematics, political science, etc. Similarly, in the economics Ph

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... day in 5.112 -5.12 -INTEGARLS* -3.091, or, How to Draw Pretty Pictures ... in Five Minutes -General Relativity -Balloon Science -THE INTERNETS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... hugs thinking about hugs remembering that one time in a summer ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing ... things you can do between now and Saturday afternoon: -Buy really cool ... depths of obscurity. If you find yourself living every waking moment in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  creativity and excitement for learning coming through most clearly in the ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  that people would complain about defying tradition in previous years ... , in an era in which we have a female president and a female running as a ... once again. It was changed for the first time in 2002). Anyway

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... 'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I'm staying in Ada-Logements, a downtown boarding house about two and a half

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  " became an important EPA goal. While this promise was not reached in time ... however, particularly after rainstorms and when walking in certain riverbeds ... .002 course website: The 6.002 Final Exam will be Tuesday, May 23 from 9

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  ), which you can read about in everybody else's blog. Basically, during the ... , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... undergrads. They've expanded greatly since they started, with chapters in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  ’m in high spirits. It's my first post-finals day- my semester officially ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... to Medical and check in at the desk. I’m preparing to travel to India

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  (anything but natural in feel) loom over the drama, while OperaBots attend to the Powers like robots in a Japanese hospital. And then there is the chandelier, in all of its hypar glory, which I had for many years passed by in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  So it's snowed something like 15 inches in Cambridge in the past 14 ... snowed at all. And now all these southern California kids are in Boston ... Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006