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• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  back of a shelving unit I brought with me to MIT but never actually ... to collapse. Probably as a result, the top half of the shelving unit ... small half, though it is only a half to the extent that one third is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public ... plans to do a doctorate in bioengineering at Oxford. Congrats to ... 's count to 43 Rhodes Scholars. Below, find the "official" biographies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  . WHY DID I COME TO THIS SCHOOL.”), and with classes wrapping up today, a ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it ... In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  international students at ISEF, I will be presenting a shoptalk: Admission to US ... The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... Thursday, May 17th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  these many, many excellent applicants to bring together a class. Today ... This year, we received 12,443 applications for freshman admission, a record number for us and a 9% increase over last year. We admitted 1533

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter ... home. Allow me to give you the grand tour. Picture 1 gives you a great ... this office. I guess some things never change. As a kid my mom used to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  ) on campus, there's a free sneak preview of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, brought to you by the MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). Long-time blog readers may remember that last year around this time I attended a free sneak

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  you inspired for a spoOOoky time at MIT! #1 – Pretend you go to a ... costume for you! Pro: It's an easy costume to pull off when you promised ... , but you procrastinated on what you'd wear to the last minute. Con

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it ... your cross stitching gear and learn how to cross stitch a cool custom MIT ... Last year, about this time, I was typing a blog entry much like this

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. ET. To view the live stream, click on this link and type in the password: mit-covid. Miss a class? You’ll be able to view a ... up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our kitchen, there is a "sacrificial table" - "sac tab" for short. Any item

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of ... greatness! Keep reading to learn a little bit more about the MIT Class of ... to the newest data from this past year's admissions cycle. We always

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... Association (or the UA for short, because MIT students love acronyms) aims to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... stay up all tonight to start and finish a stupid HASS paper." Evoking ... four hours in the 6.002 laboratory trying to figure out how to use a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  consistently spend money to study at a coffee shop when I feel less guilty if I ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  ' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse And so it ... not to take this class and do other things instead, save for a few very ... decide to drop the class, too. So I go and unpack, get a hold of MY little

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  rating underwear colors in my inbox *insert context here*

  

  called Dormspam. If you send a message to this list, every single ... started not to resemble colors at all. I've assembled a small---alllow me to ... succesfully adds a modifier to the color without making it incomprehensible or

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... we get to critically examine programming languages from a design

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  for me, anyway, writing poems is a way to become grounded in reality ... to work hard and play hard, and helping out with Terrascope. And because I enjoy life-pondering and expressing it, I’ve also been taking a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  that I uploaded to my webspace a couple days ago, and therefore must be ... . As a double-majoring engineer and biologist, Ling was easily able to ... doesn't want to make a transfer directly into my US account, because they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006