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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  abandon faith in health insurance and maybe even dentists. When you can ... from “Why can't shopping carts go 35 mph on 4-lane roads?” to "Why does ... in the face with a plateful of whipped irony. Even I can't run and hide

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  :31." "Ahh, yes, I'm so sorry.." "When is the next one?" "11:10. You can buy the tickets at the desk." "Can I exchange this one?" "I'm sorry, you can ... in one week you can't depend on grannies flying in and saving you every

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different dorms because unless you've lived there, you can't describe it. Sure, I could tell you my impression, but odds are most people would disagree

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  help you make your decision? How can we be of assistance?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  initiatives, and often crazy games to develop the leadership qualities that can ... LTI was probably when I caught a real egg with a pair of tongs. I can ... the program began, I was set on certain jobs, but now I see that I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  it for yourselves in the next six months. I can hardly wait. The ... probably went to bed at 3 AM the night before and can't believe that I just ... have happened once during a particularly boring dream, but I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  then I'm trying to clean my room, so that one day I can take pictures and

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the admissions process. We have received approximately 15,600 applications for freshman admission this year. As you can see on the admissions statistics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  back and answer the questions that I can (please limit your questions to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  warmth. American Airlines, you can take away the sweetness of my freedom to travel, but you can't take away the sweetness of cookies, which contain ... neurobiological sensory wiring, which you can't alter by canceling flights. I rest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more ... 't an expression that can be safely applied when you sleep on the top bunk ... had to study my name for a while, since there's no way I can re

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  this point, but maybe later I can tell you more about Honduras (There

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the ... events which happen more quickly than the human eye can detect. (WARNING: PDF...written by my 2.009 instructor, actually!)You can read a biography

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  plug for current students - if you want to be involved in iHouse, you can ... . I can't even count how many people I know in the current undergrad ... Splash! (plug#2 - Splash! is amazing - you can teach ANYTHING. ANYTHING you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  they necessarily know better, and you can't just tell them to shove it ... have been done. The biggest favor you can do for yourself is to treat pass/no-record as if it did not exist. Blow it off just because you can

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  can't remember.), lost a pirate battle, had my lower left quadrant ... from sheer exhaustion, found out that minesweeper and tetris can be ... can almost tell from the picture below, the seemingly simple task of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  Use. This practice is also illegal and can lead to legal action against ... Agent Information Services & Technology, MIT Uh-oh. This can't be ... , you can copy and paste the entire link in to you email program, or

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008