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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  .g. travel, learn something new, chill and relax, volunteer) *How much is ... one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... , right?! Of course, there is A LOT more, but for the sake of space, I won

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal ... in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  heart palpitations (yes, this is a not-even-slightly-veiled reference to ... waves ever so nicely at me. You rock, Ava. Saif’s wife is in the front ... debate other places, like Legal Seafood, which is just a fancy place you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  , this is a tradition that has been going on since 1969! So how does it ... by the door in our room. Despite this, it still adds a much needed pop ... exhibition is still a great place to wander through. It's a pretty eclectic

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Instrument Design). Still, I think it's amazing how much physical equipment I ... musical instruments using them very soon. A dollar bill I got in 6.2060 for answering a question in lecture. I've taped it to the inside of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Water Project is that, sadly, as many wells as I could possibly build in a ... ? This is a question I don’t think I thought about too hard when I was ... I know, would have me help her take apart computers, and in our free

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of ... a soldering iron but how to interact with others in the spirit of ... connected in a moment. But first, let me explain...FIRST. FIRST (which stands

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  friends on Burton Third is a reminder of how lucky I am to live with such a ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... us lmao"]quite a reputation.[/annotation] BC is known for its floors

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  friends and family, perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a ... to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home ... , tinker in that lab, or spend a year overseas (all expenses paid) teaching

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ordinary in the sense that it is common. A meal is also beautiful because it ... interested in food. This isn’t a restaurant; this is a dream workshop.” I was ... much as we focus on our guests, there is a special camaraderie built

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby way or some intellectual dig. Rather, I think there is a special ... feels normal or even almost too bland for MIT, my personality in a non

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  the Boston city limits. In a town where there are so many college ... In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to provide you with a few thoughts on dating at MIT. I make no allegations of

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... morning, the first thing I do right after I wake up is solve a Rubik’s cube

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  go shopping on Broadway. New Haven is very much a college town ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of ... 'm in the area. It turns out that using a new camera, for me, was a little

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  Friday? This is weeked was a great example of how you can accomplish so ... After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  like 4 hours long in the dead of winter. So it's kind of a good idea, if ... DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life, Mozart reportedly remarked, "Finally, here is music one can learn from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in ... . For those of you who don't know, Head of the Charles, is a regatta where ... teams all raced (note remember to post results).   Now crew is a

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  would be inevitable if I dwelled too much on her story. In that moment ... should be!) Everyone says that this is not a normal time, that we are ... much at stake. There is no room for error, not if I hope to achieve even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  A-woo-hoo! Since the last entry was such a frickin' saga (tm Betsy ... will limit myself to 12 words in each caption. By the by, the entry title is actually the MIT women's water polo motto, I believe. I hope the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  with free food you want to go to in your CPW booklet. A sleeping bag ... somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green ... from a girl with green hair, who is now a close friend. I built things. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012