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• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  of bits to open. I don't know how many of you work with wood or are ... Maddie and I headed over to help set up the brand new shop and check out ... , and helping with odd-jobs around the shop. I, being the eternal tourist

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order ... Week 1: IAP Week 3: IAP Week 4: I spent a substantial amount of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... changed about MIT in the past four years - but many things haven't, and I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  doing now that I've won this most presitigious of awards? Sitting in lab ... Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As ... competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  international students.   This past week, I attended an annual conference on international admissions (I attended last year as well). The ... applications. As always, it was quite fascinating; I learned a lot, met some good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... last year's early action period, when we received 9,291. As I wrote a few ... are very proud of, and grateful for, all their hard work. I also know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  slacklining, so I gather, lies in training your leg to counter-wobble against ... like finding balance in dance, and both slacklining and dance are (I ... Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... Campus the only dorm where I could be happy? No -- thinking so would be ... The blogfathers in the admissions office requested a while back that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  clueless about what they were like on a daily basis before I moved in ... I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a ... . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  pain. In the meantime, I'd like to thank everyone who made this video ... depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  approaching, one week from Friday. For those of you who were there, I hope you enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here is not knowing what things looked like. I kept hearing about "Athena" but had never seen it. I knew MIT students had e-mail accounts but who

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  and am currently languishing in isolation. While I suddenly have so much free time, I don't feel like doing anything other than admire the art in ... Over spring break, I crashed at my recently graduated friend's place

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about ... should not only blog it but illustrate it scene by scene" (how am I so good ... Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  the GRE, we would've had to start studying in senior year of high school ... as we would have liked). But, there were also a lot of really good and ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift ... weights. A working-class kid raised just off Foster Road in Southeast Portland, the 6-foot-2, 240-pound teen is a leader in the school wood shop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  the time and resources allotted for next year's Rush would be cut in ... I hear that if you're an incoming frosh, you got your temp housing ... summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first place, and why am I no longer majoring in chemistry? I have quite a few ... in until my junior year, when I realized that I absolutely did not want

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007