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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write ... wasn't until 12 hours before it was due that I started writing and it was ... and fling them.  I'm the one filming. 2)  Solar panels went up on the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and-chris-peterson-and-scrambles-his-brain-to-send-the-acceptance-magic. Fear ... get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, it's been announced with more and more fanfare every year. This ... pies and heaves one at the blogger. In even more gratuitiously slow ... cameras were grainy, the sun kept moving behind clouds, and we had no idea

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  thinking and processes that can be used to mass manufacture products. As an ... childhood memories... and decided to make a yo-yo based on the 1996 movie ... working in Solidworks (a program used for modeling on the computer) and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  One week ago, an eclectic group of ambitious young men and women flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make...something. The hacking arena. The ingredients: ideas, sleeplessness, Red Bull, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  admins, networks better than the IT department and operating systems better than the people who wrote them" - Dan T. '85 (my boss) I chuckled and ... reading, lots of reading. And it has easily been one of my favorite

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and click refresh 200 times in a minute. You might get carpal tunnel! And you'll crush the server. And Labs will get fired. :-(   Ok, here

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a ... incredibly difficult. And by "incredibly difficult", I mean "incredibly ... . At times, you've driven me up the wall, literally. And I couldn't be

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... provide your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other ... opposed to faxed or sent via Docufide/Naviance), and especially mailed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  stuff? (Or, "OMG I sent my stuff before the deadline and it's not ... and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline ... . If the tracking system isn't showing a document yet, relax and wait

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  with this group/family/community and it has been a blast! To make matters ... friends are in a band at MIT that is affectionately known as Love and a ... Products, the Logarhythms, and (my favorites) the Chorallaries.  

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  obsessive map-scanning, and the free stuff-hoarding, but there's still plenty of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved ... place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  tomorrow and it's all for you. For four days MIT crams all the awesome stuff ... 's ice cream made with liquid nitrogen, rock band, dance parties, and more ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  cooking our own food, if we so choose. Many people embrace the kitchens and ... and I are the only two who don't even really own dishes, we just use ... "pretends" to cook. Sara's menu consists of two items, soup and cereal, both

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  . As you begin having more questions about life at MIT as a freshman, and fewer questions about admission, we encourage you to start reading and ... MIT. Other helpful sites include the firstyear and Orientation sites

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to campus in less than two minutes and once lived in Africa and is actually named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students) to borrow ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading ... the general public. Students view the collection and enter their top

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Right now, I am sitting and blogging live from Boston's amazing new ... dumplings, pork funs, and other "heart-touching" delicacies, we wandered ... Darkness and a few others) before splitting with the group and heading back

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  front entrance of the theater and chased after the news cameras. It was going to be a good night. At ten, Javi '08, Jordan '11, Dan '11, and Harrison '11 all showed up and we picked up our pre-ordered Fandango tickets

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  only have twenty thousand and six) Remember the spam (Share spam, give ... don't forward my MIT email to Gmail, and I've already taken myself off lists that send too much mail =p) And some technologically-related issues

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008