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• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  I was. I said junior, and he said, “ah, yeah, that’s usually when ... said, “hm, I don’t know.” It’s interesting, I’ve heard people use that word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  that looks like this: Here’s Boston from the Harvard Bridge, MIT’s

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  self to stop worrying. Nor should I. Worry was inspiration. It’s why I ... ’t tell. Sometimes I return to that vision. It’s enticing. Not abysmal, as ... was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  incomplete information, which means that it’s impossible - even for computers ... opponent’s pieces are. This made the game rather interesting, since we had ... there’s one thing that MIT has taught me, it’s a haunting, incessant

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  first album, starting with a mismatched rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian ... difficult feat, but fortunately our album’s title matched every beat and ... sprinted to Denali’s room to wake her. Once again, despite multiple alarms

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  of Tony Stark/Iron Man, MIT’s celebrity comic book hero, the presence ... knowledge, a lot of sports teams have some form of “our-season’s-over-but-we ... this is the fencing team’s version. There is food, merriment, gifts for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack ... hacks.mit.edu. (pssssst, hey 2016's! We only have 2.5 years to do #82

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... 's the job. Send us something which will make us think you can do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  MIT - what's going on?!" "My teacher said she sent my eval A in ... 's just in the mail pyramid. (See below - Tim is working on it right

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  evil neighbor, a competing mollusk hunter who owns the dock’s only ... one measurement on your neighbor’s scale? Hint: while you cannot open

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

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  MIT receives; it’s not uncommon to have folks from Russia, India, China ... working with MIT students in the admissions office. Now here’s where I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  working with MIT’s Edgerton Center, which supports teams such as the Solar ... Spring Break! p.s. If you'd like to learn more about the Edgerton Center

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  endeavors have included sitting in on Senior Lecturer Anna Kohler’s Acting with the Camera (21M.624) class and taking a tour of MIT’s ... Center to see Otto Piene’s Litchballett and the Hans Haacke 1967

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  see Jason Derulo, watch the MIT flashmob, go to Harvard Square’s May fest, attend my living group’s formal, get a haircut, race against Boston

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  - instead, check out Chris S.'s awesome entry. The essays are a chance for ... now decorates my colossal drawing, “You just ruined Nemo’s eyes!” In his ... you get all A’s!!!” Everything I need to know, I haven’t learned from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we’re all getting ready to go back to school… Returning students are probably still wrapping up summer ventures, but 2014s are probably almost ready to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring ... tomorrow. Because tomorrow is the Class of 2012's Ring Premiere, and we'll be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  -year-olds — particularly MIT’s infamously geeky crop of scientists and ... -drinking. Under the plans, alcohol will no longer be sold to under-21s in off ... putting a life-size fire engine on the main building’s famous dome. Too

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... points if: you are pictured with other MIT '12s (use the admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  when I first got into MIT…when I complained about Boston’s cold winters, he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007