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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Stu, Matt, Nance, Daniel and I are all down in NYC for the College ... being in Boston or Cambridge. Sortof surreal to experience that in Manhattan, but I'm not complaining. That's one of the things I love about New

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you ... MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their ... may have complicated feelings that you don’t know how to name; that

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not ... big corporations that you hope to work for in the summer. Last year I ... I got. This year it was all about the job. In my suit and with my

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  's basement, though I can think of many others. And in the end, we were ... I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds ... otherwise, and my fraternity has played a huge role in my life ever since I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  characters on this famed seedy strip. In my senior year of high school, I ... like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour before curfew. Pablo can see this any night of the week. As I said before

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  with the shop guys in Pappalardo (where we build out 2.007 robots.) I ... challenge was to come up with a team name, we decided on “I Can’t Believe I ... not, then I’d recommend it. The author, Pepper White, got his Masters

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any ... 21E can be confusing. So, here it is, filled out with the classes we ... HASS = Humanities Arts and Social Sciences REST = Restricted Elective in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  else in my boot. I was quite certain of that. But I still needed to check. The women’s bathroom in Simmons shone with a clean metallic glow. I ... vitality. In my stall, I tossed the boot as far as possible. I also prepared

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  coast are coasters.  So I'm a yankee coaster.  I can't imagine Boston Red ... "Oh yea you guys don't have armadillos up there in yankeeland" Another intern told me one day during work.  I've never been called a yankee

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  , what you have before you, folks, is a punt puzzle. I don’t know how easy ... dispatched aggregate of users worldwide, I can easily declare that the entire ... an MIT student performs, one that usually leads to statements like, “I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  there, which can lead to why I made this entry. Check out what happened ... particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant ... commenting is acceptable behavior or not. I'm guilty of being one of those

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you admitted folks are excited! I just got back from an amazing week in ... about in the blogs all year (me included). You can follow Ben's blog for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  " over in Sloan but I won't make it there in time. A later passage down ... can with photos of events that I attend. Until then, I'm off to enjoy ... Infinite, I heard a loud boom coming from Lobby 10. Upon closer inspection, I

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus has, as far as I can tell, more underrepresented minorities in ... Campus dorms can be considered more traditional in terms of college ... topic. Being in student government, I know a lot of people from a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note ... asking if they can search us. Confused, I said yes as one of the workers ... next day I visited Old Town Alexandria, which is slightly Boston-core in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... rolled around, I didn't tell anyone. In fact, I was in a hotel room ... can only accept so many students in December. The Admissions Office

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  all day, while I was sitting in my classes slowly passing out from sleep ... calculating last year that if I got an A in every one of my six classes this ... the tenths place)! But if I got a B in any one of them it would stay the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... . Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually ... numbers involved, in spite of writing memes all day”. After that, I wandered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it ... . i wanted to say that one year isn't that long in the span of things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022