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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  blissfully free of intra-MIT application procedures -- there's no quota, for ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful ... number of rooms and allow the individuals to decide for themselves. I also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  .00, 6.009, and 6.031 for. And was it worth it? Definitely! In this class ... pages of the comic here, but sign up for their newsletter to get the full thing. I think it's worth it for the read! Overall this class has been a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I ... grateful for, even if I forgot it occasionally while in the frenzy of trying

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... talking about vaginas in front of a large audience. For an audience member ... fundraising ideas, meet the rest of the cast, and then strip to lingerie for a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped ... show adMITs the software-free laser cutter, called Contour, that we built ... laser cutter, teach them how to use it, and generate hype for MechE. When

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner ... much. They think it makes everything cuter. For example, kawaii-ne~ Um

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Hello everyone, prospectives for the coming years and prefrosh alike ... Jones waiting at the table for me... and any other prefrosh. No matter, I ... , check Friday Liveblog), I knew that MIT was the place for me. Now to

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote ... life. Recently, I've been spending my free time during IAP cleaning. So far, I've deep cleaned my dorm room, put in necessary work orders for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know ... makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to ... voluntarily buy bananas, but somehow, free bananas just taste better... I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  whirlwind of finding an apartment in Boston. No free-food events, but plenty ... besides, there are so many Zoom gatherings for frosh and upperclassmen to ... four months or maybe twelve, I will call this place home. For now, I am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  to visit improv shows and eat hot pot. For our second to last day, we took long walks between campus, the Museum of Science (free for MIT ... campus, but it’s perfect for me. No other dorm gives every resident their

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  rare for me since I am an EXTREMELY shy person. He also pushed me to be ... thankful for all my friends. They've made my time here all the better and ... more to talk about since I've only been here for like 4 weeks, but I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I ... : * Maintaining/extending the weird, fun, "students just made this for you ... character/bitmoji for you with hairstyle, dorm location, major, virtue, vice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  almost inescapable. I wanted to increase opportunities for the MIT ... ’s worked on this initiative for the past year has seen the need for voter ... group, or anywhere else, making it easier for individuals to increase

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  the world (or my stand partner) and feeling very sorry for myself, I ... . Feeling exhausted? Sleep. Don't have enough free time to finish that pset ... classmate forgot to bring her glasses for our end-of-semester shooting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... 10-250 for the keynote. The lanyard has The Behemoth logo on it ... the Johnson ice rink so far.    And now, for a montage of games: Tiny

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  senior and therefore finals-free) cooked me dinner so that I could study ... saw my name on the list of recipients for a carnation, from the sorority ... Oudenaarden, my 8.03 professor. (Thanks for that, Sam.) On Wednesday, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  things. When he got a new computer for his birthday and we finally upgraded to DSL, I saw it as an opportunity to play CSS lag free while he ... solving, Computer Science was what I was really looking for. A few months

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  more and more violently, until they finally broke free from their crystal ... understanding this. Yay brains! Yay neurons! You have them to thank for all those things you take for granted – consciousness, your ability to store memories

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  stop drawing free body diagrams; this is an exercise in introspection. No ... memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... , "Well, what good was it for?" If you're on the waitlist, you might not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011