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• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  carpet to match with my roommate, which in hindsight was not the best ... that I’d have to unpack in just four months. Instead, I focused my energy ... design class I took to get them printed. But given that there's only a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  who used to be in our shoes so many years ago!  I just kept thinking how ... my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... F. '31 to play in the dirt, and everyone had a great time! A bunch

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• 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
• 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

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to ... As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  . Adelaide sits on the floor in the hallway to strap on her heels. Adelaide is ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... creates its own design specific to your class year. Then they reveal the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  your major's requirements. However, if you want to major in engineering ... Harvard is B+/A- centered.) There is pressure to get good grades, but you ... repeat, do NOT put yourself though being pre-med if you only want to hang

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  're definitely going to get an entry on it in the near future. 9. I mentioned the ... excursion to Garment District. Well, anyway, I remember that one is "get ... surprise to any of you that my first (and likely only) appearance in our

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... MIT, but I'd like to attend CW if possible. I heard we get to make

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... is tonight! Every year we blog about 2.009, a capstone course in ... webcast at s009kindness.com, where you will also be able to ask questions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to ... ; It was incredible to hear how 15 different MIT students interpreted the ... , "From Generation to Generation" // Bruno Faviero, "Vision" // Bruna Moscol

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual ... ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... know that Guide to Residences in the NBM? Check out our i3 video in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... adjective to describe the same adjective. That's how much it blew the mind ... week. It turns out that, due to the gnarly distortions in spacetime

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  what you're going to get. But I do expect that my MIT experience will transform me in ways that I never expected, expose me to people I never would ... lags and is measured in carrier pigeons per second ***let it be known to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  : :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room ... . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... idea to exchange e-mails with your host before you get here, just to get ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker ... !! You can listen to WMBR @ 88.1FM on the radio in the greater Boston area ... , because you get to see all kinds of people that you didn't even know were a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  readers, to bring you entertainment and distraction in your final hours ... keyboard/mouse sharing), Anna and I were debating how to transition from ... that you will shine. I guess how this applies to early action applicants

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010