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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  Thursday, including: The Big Question: How and When to Exit Iraq: All are welcome to a special CIS Starr Forum, "The Big Question: How and When to ... Ansari X PRIZE, catapulting society to frontiers in space and other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I started measuring time in units of how long it took me to knit a headband ... in neck trying to see who can outsmart whichever trashing algorithm we

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... 100 atm? Then you ought to meet us in the lobby of Building 66 at 2 ... DID YOU KNOW? MIT means "WITH" in German. CPW! CPW! Hey prefrosh, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football players fare in an ancient world?" "What if Afghanistan was never invaded by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  were interested in becoming bloggers or at least really excited to meet ... I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other ... be different - but I didn't expect everything to be so weird.  It made

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  forgo the opportunity to decorate their room - especially in dorms like ... going to do with our room," said Dima (pictured in the foreground). "But ... , so I went to the Porter Room [a big room in Burton Conner with broken

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  Sometimes you should stop to identify all of the different pictures in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  in their home country and begin studies while they wait to learn their ... We're aware of the different academic calendar in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries in the southern
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  reason I came to McDonald's in the first place. I mean, I'm glad I found ... December 3, 2007. France. I'm in France. But I just got done with Italy. And I just got done with uploading way, way too much blog to the other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  interior life, and no reason to believe we have anything else in common ... as the prime minister. I sent the link to my friends, like, haha check ... entirely sure what compelled me to make a Wikipedia account and add more to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  hoping to ski--there's not really snow anywhere in North America. But some ... and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in ... gear, it should be no surprise that I'm thrilled to be back just in time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  gremlin in me that's always eager to experience new places. Access to global ... TUMO with my friend Caitlin O. '25. We taught students how to CAD ... 't have access to them growing up. I dreamt of seeing worlds beyond my own

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  , magic happened: Poor Professor Minicozzi didn’t even get to finish the ... genre. Today I’m just going to ramble about minor happenings this week ... to person before Professor Minicozzi arrived: Of course, this hack

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  divided the lecture hall in half and told us it was time for audience ... the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and is majoring in Course ... weekend, I went to Alpha Chi Omega (AXO)'s Lip Sync -- their annual

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact, although I was tempted to plan out exactly how I would spend every moment of ... guide and decided to (try to) build a human pyramid in the middle of Lobby

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  12-volt battery. Half their winnings go to their school, but they get ... I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who are they? What is their story? Beginning today, I'm going to be posting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.   ... .mit.edu/chocolatiers/www. Check out a video of the MIT chocolatiers in action at www.how2heroes.com ... eutectic -- something to do with melting points -- hung in the chocolate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and ... interest in genetics and bio for me as a career path, so to that I owe it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across ... types of fondue -- this one had cheddar in it, and there was another that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007