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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  outdoors. In effect, an outside elevator. In effect, a pair of metal sliding ... the tour guide for an eternal 70 minutes through the most nauseatingly ... MIT is like. *In a safe, police-approved way. The plastic cow, for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  from caffeine, consumed in excess to make up for too little sleep. Then ... 't looked at for weeks. I paced the lab under cold florescent lights, tired ... time for thinking. My mom, back in Tucson, would still be awake. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  ’s not a particularly good study habit, but it worked for me in high school ... intimidated by going to office hours, perhaps in part out of pride, for not ... about MIT for me is definitely how hard I’ve fallen in love with it. Sure

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The last movie Tony Randall appeared in was Down With ... it for three months! This is like the time Tony Randall died and I didn ... fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  research on what the VR trends would be in 2017 and found out that a lot VR tech was going to be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las ... newest innovation at CES. The latest and greatest in virtual reality

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast ... position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... said, you can never plan completely for everything in life, and all in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her ... . Anyway, beyond Ruth's most brilliant clue (saved for posterity in Mitra ... restaurant for Cuban food if you happen to be in New York; it's a little pricey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  life got turned upside down", I figured I might join in with the chaos ... hours, too. Also, thank you for your lovely responses to my last post. I ... make custom cardpacks with this website for good inside jokes Settlers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  meet Fall Out Boy ~9 years later. For context, I was an avid Club Penguin ... Panic! at the Disco phase where I made an Instagram account for it (~7k ... looked up videos of her performing and I just sat there in awe because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... there would be like. REX is already in full swing at Random, and this is what the schedule looks like: Tuesday, August 25th Cards Against

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  strange dorm I'll be having an awesome summer in.     And ... -away-from-home in a completely new way, familiar territory through an unfamiliar ... really, don't plan out your child's future that far in advance, dude. Wait

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  spash page and in particular look at the Acknowledgements Section. You may ... DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  , which isn't exactly easy in between problem sets, but it can make for a ... . And yes, it's true that the admissions committee is looking for someone ... if you make the effort, MIT is an amazing campus in that it borders

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  that the impact an individual biologist could make was negligible because ... forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  ’t even looking for. Besides the two soda can holders, I was given a ... I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT ... glee and sugar in the elevator to the fifth floor. The chocolate and

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  look deeper for less well known ones? okay, now let's see who's what ... as an obsessive Spotify user, it's only fitting that i finish my last ... consistent tradition, and if I had to guess, they'll continue for a while

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  't feel that way are probably in for a somewhat rude awakening come next ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to write the much anticipated UROP explanation thing. In my three years at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... in Siem Reap for a little over 48 hours and are currently spending the ... program for solar lanterns. Working in teams, we collected back the solar

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  this), engaging him in a dolphin-meowing match for half an hour. He ... its way into a corner of the hall, was swiftly consumed in full by an ... behavior problem in his old age. When Hannah was out of town for IAP, this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006