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• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for ... why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college ... your health and literally sucks the life out of you. Now, for once, you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall. Facebook and google are banned, but for some reason Facebook Messenger still ... summer--researching at the Media Lab and going to Ethiopia for the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  class that I wake up thinking about and work late into the night for, not ... finding people who share my passion for design - who see it as so much more ... 've taken have been invaluable for this. They've given me the confidence to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  hacking tools to make a guide for sales engineers but what I found was a 10 ... put out by the powerful hackers who do this for a living. Script Kiddies ... . Writing Test Tools The last week and a half has been writing test tools for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other ... for another event, but it was really awesome talking to prefrosh who ... really happy for the attention that prefrosh brought to them.  Other times

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango.  I ... Massachusetts Avenue than I have for a while. I saw some really pretty sights ... going for a run along the river when she saw me) and we got to catch up on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  't finish our toy 10 minutes before we had to be there for presentations ... end for the PLAYsentations. It was incredibly wonderful. Looking ... , thanks for one the most unforgettable experiences of my freshman year!

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  Says, running up the Green Building stairs for 4 hours, a Python Bee, a ... Campus for two events: Chocolate Chess and the Nutella eating contest. [Now ... have a nice sugar induced coma for a hour after the game. Nutella Eating

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  like Java's rebellious younger cousin, you can only eat oatmeal for so ... wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and not for credit. I've been running between kickboxing classes, business

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the ... magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives ... Housewifeformer™ and churned out three outfits for our new dog, Scooter (who

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  example for a lot of arguments either, but he's an engineer for NASA. He ... suit to be a superhero. No "baby I was born this way" origin story for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  signing up for it.  It sounded pretty shiny.  In classical me mode, my first ... . Don't worry about flaps, there aren't any in this plane. Keep for the ... 's almost like simulators were created for this purpose.     And

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for ... power for some time because it is surrounded by an intricate interweaving ... ;   One final note: for those of you who already have students here at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  for Malgorzata and Melanie. We gathered at a restaurant that specializes ... , so we get to manage our time for work, travel, leisure. (At the moment ... and turned back… Our conversation carried on for a few minutes. I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest ... feels like it's made for college students, what with all the long study ... expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... a couple weeks later. Chamber Chorus was looking for more altos, so I ... to sing solo! I guess sometimes music groups are just as desperate for

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  Srivastava take the lottery for millions, like the MIT Blackjack Team took Las Vegas for millions? "I remember thinking, I'm gonna be rich! I'm gonna ... ." Maybe there's something to be said for the old saying, "The Lottery is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do ... 's "Rhapsody in Blue" at Boston's Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops. (For most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  most creative stories I've heard. Just gotta share this. :) "MIT, for ... beat for the song while I played the piano and sang. The video took the ... found out, I literally screamed while jumping up and down for a good

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  . Along with my major in Chemical-Biological Engineering (Course XB, for ... for MIT’s newspaper, The Tech. Some people will try to tell you ... selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010