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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ...   “This is what a typical door in East Campus looks like, just in ... asked what I was, and his answer was "Maya, you're a hubcap. You roll down

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  next CPW would help? =p) and apparently I look a lot taller. 10. "Wow, you don't sound like a college professor in real life!" I'm sure now ... next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  missed what was literally the party of the century, but I'm still thankful ... the story. Tickets were a couple thousand dollars. But, my friends and I ... placed in the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon the weekend before. Tickets to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago), I felt like I should go and partake in the festivities. So I got to ... ends Let's celebrate Remember a year in chain email spam Remember the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2 ... In Late August, I flew back to MIT. I wrote a blog about the airplane ... printed, cut, and in a box in the OFY. Now, I just had to package them. Oh

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... a student-athlete in a place where the “student” part is so heavily emphasized? There’s a lot of ways to answer that, but I think the most

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  newspaper or the watch the news as often as I should, but that's why I am glad everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me: Yea, I know that. She's an MIT professor. Friend: No, she's a GENIUS. Me

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  picture, and I managed to run over a chicken wing and almost wipe out in ... is perfect for reading. I really enjoy reading in general, so I spend a ... normally like to relax for a bit before biking back to my dorm, so I bring my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  what I did, but it wasn't much. I didn't get much of a head's start on ... breathe. Earlier today I got a haircut in the South End and I opted to ... more holidays in the fall than we do in the spring: a 4-day Indigenous

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so ... experiment: every two weeks I’ll post an informal blog post with a riddle or a ... -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  remains a mystery to me (though I did try to find a pattern in the prices ... check, classy security, and fancy wine. Plus a much older and wealthier population. Really, a whole new world.    If you're wondering what an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... , there was a good twenty-minute period before class started when I had an ... Robots What is a Narwhal? The Architectural styling of I. M. Pei How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  : Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean, In a Perfect Ocean, 2003. --- What happened ... prediction, just 133 years later? What can we do about this issue, before it ... a freshman-only, 9-unit course that is geared towards exactly what the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... the latter two paragraphs in terms of what makes MIT different: this ... historically designed to advance a democratic agenda. When people ask me what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  , only taking pictures with a color balance approximated below: I tend ... little under the weather, but I left to check out the race. It was anticlimactically canceled, but I still went for a nice run with a couple of other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... around in the back of my head. I felt I wouldn't fit in unless my idea of a ... with mashed potatoes. Like the prefrosh in that thread, I too was one of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  therefore "cannot find out about what I say," to her friend. (I'm in the ... So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could be matched with a non-binding school (MIT). In this case, you may ... All QuestBridge College Match results are announced in early December
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  allowing myself a ten minute study break before I have to go back to reading ... in my first entry as a blogger, I recently decided to write a new blog ... I am RIDICULOUSLY hosed this week (three exams, a problem set, a lab

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  company (this has happened a few times when I didn't perform well in a ... that rejection can bother me: if I ask a question in a group chat and ... feel bad for no reason, so maybe I won't ask a question in a class group

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022