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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  -shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I ... of War team at PlayStation this summer :) I have no idea how this ... absolutely sure that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the position

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... I never thought of writing in public, only one integrator remains. He ... Name I Will Insert Here After Someone Recognizes Him in the Comments

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and ... itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating ... drawstring bag for the day, which has in it an iPad, a battery pack, some

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in ... learn that Beethoven may have met Mozart. I'm not sure how to describe why ... Milton's 400th birthday: December 9, 2008. I was a junior in High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  , still in the lounge car. It is getting darker more quickly than I would ... note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the ... [annotation note="I spent a lot of time in high school on buses and I got very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  … after all, that’s how I get sidetracked in the first place. But glow ... carve out the inside. Still unsure, I timidly stuck a petite knife in: -and left it there... Until killer instincts kicked in: I had

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... down, we were back at the hole-in-the-wall bookstore; I recognized the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  taking my tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the ... the cover sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my ... edu. Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You can find your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... administration's view on it? etc." I would characterize MIT overall as being a very ... , which I'm proud to be able to say was the first state in the Union to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you ... said. But they would've said it if I'd asked. Totally. ... the people I polled about CPW, the one event they said meant more than

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  't embarrass him by telling you all how old he is =), but I will tell you the story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  : I very much liked how they integrated string instruments into their ... Fest sold more tickets than any in recent memory.  And by "recent memory," I ... As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  my aunt about food in the US and how different it is Jenny> i also ... getting a triple would be a nightmare. But I got lucky because we all have ... Massachusetts. I’m really interested in [annotation note="6: Computer Science

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... I probably won't be in a few weeks." (Unified is a legendary class at ... Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... solve Shor cells in the C shell.” Long story shor(t), I moved out of ... week, alright? I just couldn't feel any sympathy for how stressed and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  like this but I was still unprepared for how many dicks I would see ... ;   Last semester, I took (3.094) Materials In the Human Experience ... top of the little tower. While I would have liked to go to the top of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a ... undergrad members of management to come talk on camera so that I would have ... around long enough that the station [annotation note="I say this in a very

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  got attached to a very energetic Beagle). I would take part in a karaoke ... I enjoyed and did reasonably well in was a confidence booster. Soon ... ’d implemented in an MIT class. All of a sudden, I had something of a resume, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last ... in the hall raised their hands. "How many would choose their career ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  ; in a sad justification of his self-imposed theme. And you would be ... take it all in, and I think that’s what MIT looks like overall. If you’re not sure what I mean, allow me to tell you about my check-in

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008