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• Blog / Events

  The Coin Has Been Found! Mystery Hunt 2007 is quasi-over.

  

  and I'll get back to you when I get home from church. Ciao! ... "At 2:14am on Sunday January 14th Dr. Awkward managed to defeat the devil and regain their immortal soul (in coin form)." This means Mystery

  • by Bryan
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  them in the "Miscellaneous" category, and wondered if my posts ought to ... about how lucky I was to have the chance to attend, and one week freaking ... , pen, La Verde's bag, jacket, or copy of Mad in America to constitute

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  many other in disrupting our service to protest SOPA and PIPA. Here ... comparable in its effect to the Great Firewall of China Kill websites that ... sites within five days. It also encourages payment processors to engage in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  couldn't get over how beautiful she was. And how I was...attracted to her ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... Direction - my biggest regret in life is declining tickets to see them in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  . Life in college is not how she imagined it. The Frosh had many dreams for ... to pummel an innocent robot with a hammer. In return, the Frosh got a ... . Deadlines, however, remain. The Frosh will get used to those eventually. And

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... experiences. In short, Melissa, you don't have to worry about coming to MIT and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... figured I need to actually do something constructive. Those of you in AP Lit ... hadn't seen in 4 months since she abandoned us and went to study abroad

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  products, from my Macbook to my iPhone, are omnipresent in my life - Steve ... showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... directed me to work with Greg Christie to fix the icon. ... But in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd, MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in ... . Jackson, a father figure to generations of young men in the house, died of ... " Lewis Gosman, who said his job was to keep the 35 young men "in line and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... you'll find yourself replying to the following email: “Get outside the ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and ... the bowl, and I put in a new bag. I helped her back to her room, where ... get help with managing missed classes. They are going to encourage you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  mouse person to a fish person" and how a trip to Germany during a ... Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends ...  approach to housing, we give our students options about where, how, and what to ... undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in on-campus residence
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T wastes in one day what MIT works an entire year to save." "Somebody

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to ... calling with questions. In an effort to answer these questions, here is a ... submit one of the following: SAT I, ACT, or TOEFL, in addition to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I ... theater to grab her ring. Behold our dorky blogger love, immortalized in a ... Avengers that weekend. Do you know how cool it is to hear Tony Stark rattle

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  Body: Memo to future self: I probably won't remember this in the ... myself to get off the internet. The monkey was writhing around on the ... ! </Monkey Story> In Talking to a Physics Major Another night

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... ://www.mit.edu/~yourusername. A username can also get you an MIT certificate, giving you access to ... cannot change it. Do you really want to answer to "hotdog88" in three years

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in ... to party even harder after the test was over. Getting that perfect ... , I was actually surprised to find that I could get credit for them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006