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• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  three shows as of January 22nd. Proceed at your own risk... Battlestar ... As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... of the idea of technological blowback? In other words, machines

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  road, plus tiny maps at the intersection of buildings with helpful "you ... /MIT station, I noticed the ground covered in a blanket of soft, powdery snow. At first, I balked at the idea of walking all the way back to Maseeh with no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  Things Work". This class starts at the level of MOSFETs (basic electronic ... I woke up this morning at 8:15, 45 minutes after my alarm was going to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  receiver on it.  It's not pretty, but it drives. At the end of lab, my ... seemed impossible for me at the beginning of the semester, but thanks to ... robot at the top of this page: Note the extensive use of standoffs and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  .) They were some of my most exciting and carefree days at MIT. Once classes ... year, and the rest of your career at MIT: Use your resources!!!!!!!! You ... Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... at their [annotation note="The frontend of an MIT student's email ... A few months ago, I stumbled across this blog, which takes a look at

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  stretches all the way to and sometimes out of the door. 2. At any given time ... like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes ... . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... lectures about Haitian culture and sustainable development. At the same time ... D-Lab, a lab/class at MIT that focuses on sustainable technology in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  , I got to meet many of you at the Meet The Bloggers Party. I finally ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... . Well, I'll show you what I have... The early hours of Thursday found me

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  I used to wander there. In the middle of the city. Late at night. By myself. Once, at 11 PM, I called one of my best friends at home in Ohio to ... ! Loose ends from last entry: 1. I'm glad everybody approved of my getting-back-at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize ... in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in ... here, at MIT, on September 17th 2011! Our office worked hard in order to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... an equal chance of partaking before it runs out. 3) When you send an e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  of the new ones. You might be too young to remember this (oh God), but ... stuff, but I'm not a huge fan of mayonnaise so I figured I could ... random songs with the names of Pokémon.  Right before

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  dinner was catered by Vinny Testa's of Boston. We took a cab back because we had so much food. My legs are burning from the 30 pounds of ... new course 14 classmates! Upperclassmen are also encouraged to attend

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  crossing the Harvard Bridge in search of Krispy Kreme's new Cookies 'n' Cream ... ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... was not aware of this. So, it's a little strange when you've been biking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to the next thing in life via the infinite corridor is the basement of the ... classes to have a cup of coffee, get going on my to do list, take a nap, or

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on ... a while since the Hack Gallery was updated, and only a couple of these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... cleanest houses at MIT, and all of the brothers and pledges make sure it ... frat. Speaking of Hispanic, it was time for Cena a las Seis (Dinner at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  – oftentimes the victims of rape or incest at the hands of family ... incredible beacon of hope and defender of justice. Having bought a necklace at ... story about some people whom he’d met at Free Tibet rallies who

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean Sunday, because even though I'm writing this at 4:45 AM, tomorrow isn ... the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017