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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  Bowl team or anything. Do you do quiz bowl? If so, here are the three most important things you should remember for quiz bowl competitions: 1 ... the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  , uncensored posts reveal a lot about MIT students, academics, and life at MIT that prospective students can review to help determine if MIT is the ... behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  First of all, a big thank you to everyone who replied to my request ... -in" quarters to give some contrast between the way you'll find a room when you ... . House management requires the rooms to be vacated unless a student is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  voice there. In that spirit, here's a thread for MIT folks who are ... in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang in an a cappella group for most of college as well as college choir

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  think that if secession can be postponed in these States a few weeks, the ... inauguration. God bless you, my dear Henry and Eliza. Love and a kiss to our ... giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new ... cars, STrIDE has developed sensors for your shoe that alert you of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to ... person to ask if you want a coffee shop recommendation Shorna A. '25 of ... finally, thank you to everyone who applied. It was a privilege to read your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  Switzerland to show you. Don't expect anything too soon, though - I'll need a ... I've spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my mom ... 'm on campus, I have trouble sleeping more than 8 or 8 and a half hours

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  Laboratory (8-110). You can also find three men's restrooms (8-113, 4-101, 7 ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen several times by various committees. In other words, an application is ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio ... saw my blogger photo taped to my pillow.   IT'S A FULL 8.5”x11 ... dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It was a great 36 hours of hunting! I'll post some fun puzzles in my next ... Hunt! "The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight" is the team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  seemed like a good idea at the time, but the results were sparse. The two photos I did get were cool though. Oh well, you win some, you lose some--though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  're up to over ten bucks! How crazy is that?! Ben, I think you really are a ... apartment. So I'm still hosed, and only taking a small break to remind you that you only have one day to bid on Ben's autographed business card

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You would think it's easy, but it's really not. So this semester is the FIRST ... eats it. This is going to be a rough 40 days. So the reason I only

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  , regardless of who else is applying from a particular school. Dressing like a ... counselors think it is too long. What do you think? [read more: NYTimes ... Today is the first day of final exam week at MIT. [read more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is ... share his experiences and thoughts on a variety of topics. He had a great ... ? Take classes at MassArt. That is something that I will definitely

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  it a listen and let us know what you think! https ... Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively ... those of us who are using slower connections... If you're just joining

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I've been a bit sad this week, and many of you have been wondering why: "you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005