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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  . (graphics/layout). I decided it would be a good time to start making (or ... -pretty-maker/organizer, Annie L. '15, a photographer, Raeez L. '14, and I set out to accomplish ... beloved by the students of the East Side. So I bring you behind the scenes

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  . It’s been months since I could wander through Lobby 13, enjoying an ... cylinder of purple liquid. A year ago a sight like that would have stopped ... ’t believe me if I told you’ serendipitous moments that make up a normal day on

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  declare Mechanical Engineering. I also remember blogging about how exciting ... Now that it's break, I finally have time to sit down and actually write about everything that's happened to me this semester. As I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

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

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

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... —eat rejection for breakfast, I'm sure. For many, rejection can be debilitating ... desensitizing force, for me. Ultimately I remember only a few subsequent

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a richer college experience. You'll figure out for yourself how you want to ... about x or y, etc. The least I can do is try to make your research a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes.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

  

  Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is ... . When Olin College of Engineering asked me if I wanted to attend their ... attendees have not been and will not all be admitted (in my mind, I viewed it

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  the 2013 Facebook group, which I knew would happen. (I'll leave you all ... Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK ... seconds. My luck in airports is notoriously crappy. To celebrate, I went to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  last day of class is tomorrow, but I only have 7.28 (molecular biology) tomorrow, and Professor Bell announced that there would be no new material, just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  little concerned that Adam and I would be unable to go out to dinner and ... Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  their smiling faces, which would probably ruin the whole image. So, I have ... Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... like she's going to cough up a kidney or something every time I see her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  playwright, who was piling boxes into the back of a truck. I asked him how it ... ." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... , cofounder of Lingt and inventor of the iDoor, which I lived behind one summer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  surface would be amplified below. It may be easier to think of the GEM as a ... triple-GEMs has a lot of fascinating applications. The application that I ... , take Special Relativity (8.20) to find out how to travel into the future

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hogwarts! (I also recently watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which, although I have Many Nerdy Opinions about how relatively good ... Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway!  Presently, I’m sitting here on Saturday night (well I guess it ... ; I had tests in three of my classes: 9.65 (Cognitive Processes), 20

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida... but it's snowing here, and it is beautiful. I'm overlooking this winter wonderland as I'm reading applications today, and it makes me feel calm, very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  fast,’ I said back, “How about a daylong pilgrimage to MIT to see three ... At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... stacked alongside smoking test tubes. I was sipping a drink and taking it

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  -fats. See how much time I saved you on the treadmill? Be sure that you can use ... Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so funny! I crack me up!) I am stressed! Reviewing admissions applications is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007