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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  , which sadly did not exist during Chris's graduation. Lesson 1: Unless you ... , you will know that I am extremely short; that worked out well for this ... , some MITERS showed up with tiny go-karts, because why not. Not long

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... conversation: (Minus the fact that I DO NOT HAVE STEVE AUSTIN'S ARMS ... arm over there? Wait, how does this work?!?!" while hanging paralyzed on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  individual with spunk and character. As a result, I strived for A's, worked ... the best in some competition. I'm not saying that here at MIT, we don ... test, paper, and problem set. Plus, there's not even enough time in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... opportunities that the sheer number is overwhelming. It's not physically possible ... , "Dang, what did I do wrong? Oh the irony." MIT is hard. I'm not going to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  , and select talented low-income students who might not otherwise think of ... applying through QuestBridge not too long ago. He was volunteering at the ... at the Boston skyline, I’m convinced it worked. I’m speaking about the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  blogs [insert "You Are Here" sticker].  Maybe it's not just a problem with ... resources around here, you'd be quite silly not to go get whatever help you need, when you need it.  Even if you're not sure it's the right person to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  'm laughing with a friend, in his/her room, and not because I'm moping over an ... of their respective labs (PEOPLE HERE DO SUCH COOL WORK. just saying ... ...really? Wouldn't that hurt? Answer: Nah. Not if you do it right. I guess I did it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  ’re really not kidding. I found myself waking up on May 19 with no plans for ... singing (sort of)! But it’s not like I spent all my free time going to ... was work to be done! I went to a meeting for the IAB, the Industry

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  life outside the bubble. Let’s not sugar-coat anything. Like I said, MIT ... ’s life outside problem sets, internships, work… (Picture taken by the ... ! ...But it's totally not. Don't worry, Kate's got it covered (she went, too

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  to say they were not qualified to run for office. When women do run ... not think I could be both an engineer and a leader. Isn’t being just one ... classes. What a strange question, I thought. Of course not. This happened

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  last question first. No, you're not in trouble if your materials haven ... envelope may not go into the tracking system at the same time). In parallel ... we know that it took lots of hard work by the records office staff to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not ... involved. (I kid you not, a friend of mine actually kept a calendar of free ... money goes towards feeding children in Africa. Cool, right? We’re working

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  then it does all the work while we're off not being on the computer. Ok ... is not knowing what things looked like. I kept hearing about "Athena ... ." Not shown is a little blue clock which indicates a scheduled

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  ...cuddling with his laptop. I'm not kidding. Okay, now I'm going to make a huge ... . I'm not even kidding. See, back in the day, the admissions blogs were ... though, as I just mentioned, the old ones worked too. Listen, I never said

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... fired...). So it turns out I'm not the only one suffering. It seems like ... printers at MIT), actually used to work. But it's been broken for awhile, and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  , and again, I met a lot of really awesome and talented people - not just students, but professors and guest speakers whose work included writing ... MIT so different? The short answer, I think, is the people. Not only are

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ago about his work with the Grameen Foundation 3. Paul Polak (President ... ." A cute story, no? Surprisingly, Levitt did not re-tell it to Stephen ... much or as little of the $10 to the other student, whom he does not see

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . I think wikis are brilliant creations- not just Wikipedia itself, but ... One of my favorite books ever is The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by ... 's not what it's about. It's about the oxymoron of the 21st century

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  red and shiny, and it works, and I need one because I live as far away ... in." "I am sliding it in." "Hold it so it looks like a U, not a horseshoe, and slide it in. There's a notch." "It's not sliding in." "You

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the ... time, I'm not taking any Course 2 classes, except I guess Thermodynamics ... computer does not agree with Baker's wireless internet. I brought my laptop

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006