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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  collaborate, and a lot of the psets are generally designed for that anyway. Some ... -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  clear that this is a tech school. Outside of classes, people are making ... . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski ... ’s part of what makes things exhilarating or exhausting, depending on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  early. Some schools use an early application as demonstration of interest ... The first round of application deadlines are upon you, which means ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

    In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short ... sleeve shirt instead of my sister's Tin-Tin t-shirt with the arms cut

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  nostalgia with a #ThrowbackThursday: PCTI Class of 2013 Graduation with my ... changed during my first year of MIT. I'm smarter now, or at least I hope I ... of my entire MIT life. For one, I had a guaranteed social life. For two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  skipped band. Terrified at the prospect of my school calling my parents to ... . One afternoon during high school, I had a bad break-up during lunch period and couldn't bear the thought of going to class. So, unable to face

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  , and hopefully, call in and vote. Here's ABC's summary of the show ... recipient of the million dollar prize. And some relevant info about Craig ... from ABC.com: Craig Forest & David Moeller, a team of two former

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Laura and I have the same birthday. What's the probability of that ... the lack of meaningful updates recently; my life has been tremendously ... out from that. Sunday, my friend Jacob from high school came down from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  ) are so important—they’re designed to give you a glimpse of what life ... . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... . I knew that I wanted to be part of the MIT community after CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  unreasonably beautiful, balmy days straight through most of January. They almost ... that of this video's protagonist, I actually did. Last Monday, I and other early risers traveled as far as the lawless borders of West Campus

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... two blog posts in high school literature class and it didn't work ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  recycling bin of everything you wanted to do in Boston during the school year ... The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  a professor at MIT, Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer ... , Prof. Kellis was honored as one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Innovators ... , outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  has one of the nation's top undergrad business schools, and I could even ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  to get back to one of my favorite hobbies, movies. Just as I got ready ... the video store but which ultimately end up losing out to likes of ... 's movie selection was very disturbing: D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  high school that I’m proud of, including being able to support my parents ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school, I stared blankly at a wall whenever I was hit with a wave of sadness

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different. Tonight I have a choice. I mean, school hasn’t even started yet so I have no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about ... days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016