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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  me. 7. I can make fun of Aditya '13, Swetha '13, and Pooja '13. Why ... powers within me. 6. I can sleep as much as I want. I've been pretty good ... near future are largely expected. And dreaded. 5. I can do laundry. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  and to put over beds to keep malaria-carrying mosquitoes off. Can we use ... created a bicycle ambulance for use in rural areas. Can we modify this design so that the ambulances can also be used to carry vegetables to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  .). These are just a few small ideas - I know you can think of others tailored ... things you can do between now and Saturday afternoon: -Buy really cool brain-related t-shirts on the Internet. Now you too can declare your

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  interests. GoCrossCampus can be a very simple game. Each day, you will receive ... owns. If you wish, you can then command your armies to attack, defend or move. While it only takes 2 minutes a day to do this, you can get as

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  challenge was to come up with a team name, we decided on “I Can’t Believe I ... you can’t really go wrong with a nerdy name. The getfit website (http://getfit.mit.edu/) has a function where you can enter your minutes and see other teams

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  Senior Thesis are surprisingly flexible. It can be as short as fifteen pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is ... 's also my advisor - in case you didn't believe the "you, too, can have a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  contemporary music herself, said, "Okay, so, for the songs, you can do anything ... was still pretty weird. Look and listen for yourself (that way I can ... Perform it at your own senior recital! But tell me first so that I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? All canned pineapple is cooked. This is why you can use canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people ... pain. Then I fell asleep 40 minutes into recitation. So, you can staple

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  National Real Estate Investor reports that "a green building can pay for ... -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one-bedroom Solaire apartment. For a *mere* $8000, you can have a 1600 sq. ft. three

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  't officially live on Conner 4 but well...as you can see from the list above, I ... the window in the stairwell. You can look out into the little courtyard-type-thing in the middle of the dorm. (As you can see, BC is basically a string of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  you can" and "Oh, DON'T WORRY, we'll be cool if you just SEND ME a page ... ANYTHING DONE YOU CAN SEND ME CHRISTINA?!?!" and "AHHHHHHH!!!! ANYTHING ... 's all, "Oh, I'll just do it tonight! Maybe you can come over and we can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  before. This was her idea. You can see her regretting her decision above ... them engage in a ceremony that, uh, can't be printed here. Ruth was not ... can get up to Boston on a Saturday night. Basically, the company gives

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  you choose your own email address (you can laugh at your friends at ... 's no comprehensive check you can do to see what is taken, but you should ... , as those addresses are professional and easy to remember. You can try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel ... rail on a Saturday or a Sunday and do some exploring (you can easily get

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  no longer can feasibly exist. The version of you that chose to apply ... can change paths, though sometimes the path you want to take lies in the ... before you make any decisions, but you can't be everything all at once

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  : we can replace traditional capitalistic and commodified forms of value ... entire piece reads so much like a meme that i can’t tell if i’m just taking ... group of people can form a legitimate support system is just incredibly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  admissions cycle. As before, you can apply to MIT at this link.  We have ... we can.  By giving you some more time, we are also supporting our ... the screen need some time, too, so that we can exercise the same care

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  . With the rice cooker, you can walk away and do whatever you want to do ... food warm for you! Can we just appreciate the blessing that is a rice ... expensive. Rice cookers can do the job and are the cheaper option, so they win

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the ... for students in on-campus courses (and you can follow along with MIT ... platforms: How can we present content in the most intriguing way? How do we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017