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• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  check out by noon on May 21st. Conveniently, this was the day after my ... book drives before, but the stuff that was going on here made it seem ... Arena on CNN. He delivered a great talk on the government's role in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends ... , celebration, and other shindig going on; if you've been living under a blogrock ... mostly stopped arriving, we were greeted by a video on the absolutely giant

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... important to hold on to your dreams. Here’s my anectodal addendum: It was ... much time on something, commit to it” (He was trying to make me explain

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  social creatures, and learning from what our friends do and taking on those ... these activities, inviting us to climb at MIT's bouldering wall or go on trips to caves on the weekends. As another example, there are loads of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered on his ninetieth year. The meeting included almost every member ... public in New England to give way, on the ground that the Union should be

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ' take on this program because it's one of those "you get what you give ... that the hands-on approach helps this program stand out from all my ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... nights on campus spent tooling. By the end of the week though, it's clear ... sets in. Your beard has grown on you (hurr hurr hurr), and the two of you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  ’re apparently low-stress enough to be called “quizzes,” even though the one on ... Linguistics, this test doesn’t deserve the label “quiz,” because it’s a full-on ... have the worst grasp on the material… wish me luck! I’m also taking 18.S

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  with her roaming all over London, getting all paparazzi on palace guards ... :) ~*~ This IAP I went to the Philippines with Yuri ’10 and Anita ’11 to work on ... develop project ideas for MIT students to work on. We spent most of our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in ... me blabbering on in plain text for pages. Sorry about that. Something ... huddle around the one light bulb, or one candle, at one store on the corner

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact ... moment on campus… and I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to say: Mission ... 7 at 11 PM on Friday. ¬∑ When I visited the headquarters of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  breaking the big toe on my right foot - eleven days before I was to leave ... practice on unsuspecting passersby, effectively mummifying them. I'm not sure ... chapters to read each night, and each day we're quizzed on information

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  . One of my suitemates is on the Varsity Field Hockey team and attends to ... (like crew or sport taekwondo) are completely open to walk-ons and ... that passionate New Zealand Rugby team, and well, we live on Burton 1

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  delete the photos or if he still wanted them. He hired me on the spot to ... , I would have emailed him in September. Good thing I was on pass ... back on Conner 2, I still wake up early to go running, and visit the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... lived on has its own wiki. And an IRC channel. "MIT is the closest you can ... least on 2E in East Campus but probably most other places too, IT IS SO

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving ... Asgard Pub on Mass Ave. I had delicious salmon which I then heated up and ... from being relieved of having to work on a 10+ year old sun machine

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... with the humanities, working on problem sets about the humanities, going ... that the humanities don't unfriend me on Facebook. In my endeavors, I am

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  Advising, Seminar Advising brings a focus on a particular subject and ... are genuinely. Some of the FASAP shows are on the obscure side—for example, last week a group of FASAPers embarked on a trip to the American

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  -nighter on the last day, finishing just in time to glue the bellows, roll it up ... bellows together before falling asleep, leaving the bellows half done on the ... from the car. With a little help, I mounted the (roughly 20 lb) camera on

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  'll have to take my word on being there; I had no camera. Since I didn't see ... company again the summer and fall after their senior year, on a project that they plan to write a thesis on. They spend the spring semester after

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008