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• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  seven classes, got sick for a month, and pulled too many all-nighters to ... meant I had a lot of essays due, and then a lot of finals to study for ... cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  , who is on language number 5, best friends with a milk frother, and ... to be so good, so so good, and I am very excited for you to get to read ... work with us, and I'm also excited to see what each one of you does and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  guarded by a vigilant goalie with the power to apprehend nearby pucks and ... alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts ... Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  , and the biggest threat of all: herself. Celeste makes it with a limited ... 've ever heard in a video game, with apologies to Undertale and Ace Attorney. Take this track, for example. It starts off with a pretty simple riff, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  . Afterwards, there was a reception of food, drink, and conversation with the ... , and learned a lot more about current research, global problems, and ... asking who I was and why I wanted to attend. I ended up getting a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  people who thinks that Stata is the most hideous excuse for a building I've ever seen. And Ruth '07 agrees with me. Speaking of Ruth '07, this is what she and I looked like as we headed off to the annual Burton Third

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  . ------------------------------ Thanks to Tiffany for a great lunch and lovely tour of the eBay complex ... with our friend Carter (MIT '07), who is interning for Apple this summer ... friend Tiffany (MIT '06) for lunch; she's interning for Accenture, a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the waitlisted students and transfer applicants are feeling a little left out. So ... reconvene and discuss the waitlist. You can see a lot of answers about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes ... be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... room, equipped with a fanny pack of exacto knives and troubleshooting

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  us know that you wish to be considered for a blogging position. As most ... 't currently have a blog and you want to be considered, you should probably start ... built a swingset for my kids! Prior to CPW, I used a wheelbarrow to haul

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  over with, soak up the life lessons, and hope for a brighter future. At ... each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray ... water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... . But given the speed of the water coming down a slide and the speed of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  Class Profile page for this year's incoming class, the MIT Class of 2012. Check it out! (If you were looking for the Admissions Statistics, just hold on for a little while longer...) Incoming Freshman Class Profile

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me really wishes I were still a freshman and not a sophomore. It feels strange ... '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  for labor; AmeriCorps offers a living allowance and education funding ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap year" between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  reading and for being a great audience. This isn't to say that this is ... , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... and deny letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125"

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  people at work so far with the Alumni Association... and counting. It's a ... come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  chatted with a few prefrosh (Hi Amelia!) and found myself not quite as on ... roof yesterday 3)  Thanks to Bianca we now have a hydrangea A lot ... mortgage, cat, girlfriend, and hydrangea. Tell you what, though, with

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Man With A Gun" from Annie Get Your Gun, and left. On March 7, I got ... Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a ... enjoy it." Rational Part Of Brain: "You like sleep way too much for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... my room. It was a good night, and I wished I had spent more time with ... look. The street I walked with my friends to get home every day after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021