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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  't mean for this to be uber-serious or anything. Just something to keep in ... I've recently had the opportunity to see three MIT productions - I know, I know, three plays AND five elections and/or speakers, how does

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... , including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One ... people in Göd öf Wär III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation ... Innovation Economy crowd in Boston: that of iRobot CEO Colin Angle to Erika ... Massachusetts (the first MIT grad to win that crown), and later competed in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... live in Boston you need to listen to Tessie and I'm Shipping Up to Boston ... 'm Shipping up to Boston." A lot. I've included some YouTube videos in case you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made ... at Star Market. They cost $2.99 plus tax. Upon starting to address them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity

  

  We're at a strange point in the political climate where white supremacists, klansmen, and outright Nazis have become comfortable enough to publicize their misconceptions in broad daylight. The people of Cambridge

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  walked in to danger!awesome, here are the other people who were there ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting workshop in Central Square. It was founded by Ali Mohammed, PhD '08, an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically ... produce a better output, compared to the average person working in that ... major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every ... hanging out in the floor lounge since then, trying to do some programming ... you can figure out how to do it without making them mad. Usually. 21M

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little ... an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of ... a transcript of the email that was sent this morning: From: Erin To

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big ... is to basically get more investment into locally owned businesses and ... was created to local businesses gathering their interest in a venture

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  together in a concentrated burst of effort to do everything that lies at the ... 'm getting at is that you will likely be able to find a variety of student ... composer, and once I went to a Boston Pops concert and this girl who was in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  interest in art in his last year of high school and resolves to get into art ... be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... ![/caption] Somewhere, deep inside me, I also had the desire to improve massively in art

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  WISE (Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering) is a three-day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student. The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  to take a pirate-themed boating/camping trip to Bumpkin Island in the ... covered in mutilated duck carcasses. Oh, whatever happened to eminent domain?! Jeremy '09 and Mark '09, who arrived at the island earlier in the day to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  cousin, and my best friend all made it in, so it was my turn to follow suit ... learned how to write about myself, how to create the froyo flavor that ... where I felt I was meant to go, imagining how I’d install a WiFi enabled

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016