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• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  on hand for an hour to answer all your CPW questions and give you a ... Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... general direction managed to leak into my late evening tonight that I thought I'd share. Coherency is left as an exercise to the reader. Around

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  to walk around Killian court inside, or 2 hours and 15 minutes if you ... into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  update to say that I made it safely back to Boston after 20 hours in ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again ... getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  ZigZag, working late into the night this week to cut down hours of ... would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we ... sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  duty to watch one hour of television a week and it's probably the best ... next week, and teachers aren't allowed to schedule any exams or major ... tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of ... go for delayed gratification; it's easier to work work work for a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... . Write introduction to 10.28 advanced technical review for Monday 7. Work 4-hour Burton-Conner desk shift Sunday Night 8. Do German I homework and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... country who attend Clay Aiken concerts. They spend hours on several Clay ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same time. There was one other person from my high school coming to MIT the

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  It is my long-term quest to visit as many ramen shops around Boston ... be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... classes to plan what you want to take each semester. Pictures make more ... . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  to Admitted Student Gatherings, social events for mingling with other prefrosh, current MIT students, and MIT Alumni. The one closest to me was ... student in the immediate area, I was pretty excited to meet other 2017's in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  to celebrate his birthday and my graduation. Adam still has a year to go until he graduates, and then he hopes to stay at MIT to get his ... ). All of our stuff is carefully packed and ready to move, and I am super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  ’ve turned in my first pset, gone to my first office hours (and then second ... start five minutes past the hour."]late[/annotation]anymore, and I know it ... , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  remembered how to navigate a vehicle on a road. The two hours flew by, and the ... that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... Random Hall laundry server that lets you know whether or not to make a trek

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air ... I am. After waiting for an hour in line as they set up for the balloons, the balloon crew let us know the weather was going to be unfriendly

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005