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• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  ?” questions when someone new joins a circle. I was a bit sad at the (lack of ... , and as an overexcited prefrosh I probably read at least fifteen of them ... cool things or meeting cool people (I am truly the master of FOMO). At

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of ... ) own Dr. Patti Christie, PhD in Chemistry at MIT, Chemistry was one of my ... dozens of late nights, it was "Mandatory Fun" and the new people we met

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  debathena, which is forming the basis for the new release of the Athena system ... (title taken from The Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool) I keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am ... for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  of my worst week ever at MIT. Luckily, it was not all pain and ... medicine is a marvel of science and engineering At the start of the semester ... , people at MIT generally care about the well-being of their peers. My

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  anything new. I bought the camera to celebrate the end of my dual degree ... 'll be taking instead of 5.43. I was at WMBR last night answering phones ... reasons. Pick your favorite one. -I love chem, but I'm not good enough at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... !) At 9, we opened up our doors to everyone. I saw a bunch of friends, old ... event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket and the attendant REFUSED to look at my ID. I was hurt. Tuesday, my office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  deal with Simon & Schuster! So in September 2018, at the very beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny ... for hours, staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not life has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  we're getting a spiffy new one at the new building. Whatever.) So I ... journal: Today at the Plastic Lunch, the periodic get-together of the ... " -- although this one is a little more literal -- one of my first days working at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  something new to get out of my comfort zone. It was a really good time, and at ... frats operate at MIT, they are all collected under the umbrella of the ... kickoff day was, of course, the entrance to the Kresge Tent. Set up at the

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  the class had just opened two new assignments, one of which was due ... friends of mine to the Arnold Arboretum, all the way out at the end of the ... Arboretum, we headed into town; some of our group had vaccine appointments at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  of five, maybe six hours at most. But even those brief experiences were ... results - not only in terms of the groundbreaking research and new ... education MIT provides. Out of everything I have experienced at MIT - my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . 10:49 -- Shouts of "Oreos at front desk?" abound from down the hallway ... . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... 'm actually officially no longer a freshman (woo!). The amount of things I have to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... . The last year was one of the most intense, incredible, challenging and rewarding of my life. I spent almost every day at the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  though there are still a lot of rough edges and functionality to add. At ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  Director for their performance of Jekyll and Hyde. One day, at an MTG party ... -playing robots would take up any time at all. It takes a special sort of person to ... The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011