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• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  tomorrow on some cool projects we have in our admissions labs right now. But ... of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus ... ! See if you can find them in the archives!) Mikey, as you can see from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  Wednesday, and Christmas happening on a Saturday have culminated in a perfect ... in at a pathetic and embarrassing two (not counting the two days we get ... either constantly or frighteningly never. I've been up in long enough

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  assembled in my floor lounge singing the original Pok√©mon theme song making its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... , randomly, after turning in an 18.01A pset about a week ago. Certainly, the

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... …or is it Seattle? Anyway, grab your umbrella just in case. While the ... . In their sophomore year, many GEL students were enrolled in UPOP

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... morning, I peddled a small piece of my soul in exchange for my academic ... math kind, not the kind that President Lincoln lived in, which are much

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  is unfortunately what we happen to be learning about in my 5 ... all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way. How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the ... polished in interviews, now that I've experienced enough of them to have an ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper ... and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and ... cook about 3 times in one semester) Mushroom Risotto! (serves two) 1 ... rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

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

  

  So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to ... one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general ... that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In ... at the thing. From for blog Whoa, yea it's big. In fact it ... , what makes this so special? why is it the end of the world? Well in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... 've been lying around either freezing or burning up in bed or on my couch or somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  presenters to the MIT community in the large lecture hall 26-100. We show movies that were in theaters recently and charge four dollars, but every now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in ... memes in popular culture today, and has been referenced in many, many places. In particular, it was the subject of the newest xkcd comic: As

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... to maybe 20-25% of the students in each year. But it's big enough that ... )? But keep in mind those classes I listed weren't like taken all during

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online… ...please read this entry!

  

  designated in your MyMIT account) is 2007. ----------------------------------- What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log into

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  living in a dorm on campus. I was in this program for two summers (I took ... sitting in a lecture and listening. To each his own.) Duke University ... for college credit or doing field studies (in marine biology or medicine

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  you know. But it's a busy week in my life, between classes, choir ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... or turn in important forms on a computer or something, but then again

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut ... 's Crew, and did Navy ROTC. In her preflight interview, Stefanyshyn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the ... legacy applicants; MIT doesn't.) MIT romance I met Adam in September of my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006