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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of ... organized. Heh. One week, my room is the victim of a tornado. The next, it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event ... . Which is kind of embarrassing considering I have a cooking blog. :) While

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  is that I made a decision about what I want my life to be like and how ... game that is like a scavenger hunt and therapy session rolled into one ... /PhD program yet, but the general plan is in place. So how did this all happen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  is pretty much in line with the interest levels of MIT Blog Readers ... Ballad is a must watch. He performed it at the Conner 2 talent show tonight ... stars. We're going to turn this thing into a YouTube phenomenon, alright

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... ! Yesterday, a student came in my office and said, "Pink! I've never seen so much pink!" (This year's application cover sheets are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to ... 'm much busier than I thought I'd be: behind on email, behind on blogging ... am I going to do? Steal it from a high school? Saturday afternoon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  , and friends would come by and pick them up and say, "Oh, is this a ... process is a combinination of nature and technology, as illustrated in part ... ... Nervous Systems jewelry and accessories began with a very common story. Boy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  in 2.007 (in my opinion) is a document called "How To Build Your ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... first day of lab and I'm a bit nervous. 2.007 is well known for its chaos

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  a Rocky Horror virgin--that is, she'd never seen a live production ... Let's start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly ... against us so my miniskirt didn't flare up too much in the front, though

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  this year. The only thing we ask that you send in is a midyear grade ... a much needed vacation soon (for me, starting next week). If you call ... , you should know that at MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  Boston is a living GameBoy game this summer with the Cow Parade. All across ... involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has ... must have been someone after my own heart. A DUCT TAPE COW!!! Duct tape

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  , HSMC, SUMaC, HCSSiM, and YSP. This by no means is a comprehensive list ... -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college ... and watching old Simpsons episodes. Working is a great option (this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  more laid-back version of CPW, with just as much fun but a little more ... a 5.12 poetry competition, from which one of my favorite excerpts is ... When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation

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

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  + Valentine's Day card. End memo. First, and most importantly: BEN FOLDS IS ... link is to last year's site), which this year falls around Drop Date, the ... formally Alpha Chi Omega, by the dubs, shortened to A Chi O); and Greek Week

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  -offs). Contrary to popular belief, MIT is not a dystopian wasteland devoid of art ... first set foot on MIT's campus as an innocent, doe-eyed freshman over a year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  lectures a week (~15 people, discussion class) fun fact: Professor Buzard is ... optimization. It's a nice change to be reading and writing so much, but we ... a week (~20 people, discussion class) fun fact: Professor Lipkowitz

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  can give a more relevant introduction than I could at age 9. My name is ... ) through a maze, and the other of which is concerned with examining protein ... keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  message and empower students like us to believe that they too can make a difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two ... included Kevin Lilly, founder of Samaritan Steps, a nonprofit that provides

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must ... entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL ... things off with a lesson from ESD.950, the Engineering Leadership class the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some ... goodbye: So long, goodbye Hey, here's a fun idea How 'bout I sit on the ... 's laughing in the background So this is how it ends I promise to never go

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023