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• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking... this entry is for you, and is specifically about CPW (regardless of ... for the weekend: Parent events: Parents have been a part of Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause ... ), but I should mention this option just in case. Most grads (I think) of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  , having received his undergrad degree in '98, and is one of the most famed ... lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity on 5th East. We were soon joined by Lex '00. One of my favorite things

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised there aren’t more of these kinds of videos floating around online; I thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of weeks: the end of our first 8-week ICE course. ICE, or Integrated ... -nighters, the windowless basement computer lab, the return of 10.301 (fluid

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different ... Madrid, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Through the madness of MIT, savoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT ... francisco in the middle of the Nevada desert which would be my first time out ... shelter, the Laplacetopede, named in honor of the great mathematician, along

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short ... . Given a chance, students often will combine two or more of these hobbies

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  10 days of: Nausea :: Vomiting :: Diarrhea :: High Fever :: Dry cough ... and can address ANY potential route of virus transmission. For poster ... Screening: "The Name of the Disease" with introduction by Filmmakers Abhijit V

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... screenings of older movies every Thursday night. This week, the free movie is ... . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  -day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp… Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled ... Wellesley. Today was our first day of GELcamp (more formally known as Camp

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  ="for those of you with Celsius mind- that’s about -1 degrees, so freezing"]30 degree[/annotation] weather. 15. Kill the batteries of your equipment ... countless films of [annotation note="as short as 2 minutes or as long as 2

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to decide if a given set of two majors is feasible, rather than setting out a ... at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of ... kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  As of one week ago, it is officially[annotation note="and oh boy does the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon ... concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  -way ticket home. There was a semblance of relief, knowing that years of toiling ... beginning of the rest of my life. But, in reality, there was none of that, as ... ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... finals (8.04 and 8.044) standing between me and two MIT degrees. I don ... research. I'm sure all of you know by now about MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008