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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  ): The Evolution of Our Scientific Answers to Seven Fundamental Questions ... just the ones I'm aware of.) We want Splash programs to learn from each ... , see how they function, and give them suggestions. At the end of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  Analysis of Algorithms) exam this past Thursday. Once it was over, my brain just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to ... each year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No previous engineering experience is required, and male and female students of all science

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we ... 's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that now it has become you know, a staple part of our day? - Hey whatchu up ... Tumblrs that post pictures of fresh designs in architecture, etc. Usually I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... what I know a lot about is math. I almost wrote one of my MIT essays ... the University of Cambridge for a change of pace. Now that I'm back

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  full swing soon, and for East Campus, that means lots and lots of stuff in the courtyard, which temporarily becomes a sprawling playground of 2 ... tail end of a hurricane last year unscathed, but it was much weaker

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for ... , however, I ended up on the opposite side of Mass Ave from my building, and ... was one of those days. When the light turned red, a few gentlemen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness ... the first one of the fall semester. The five of us headed out to the ... a bajillion pictures - as per female i-must-take-pics-of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  For those of you who missed the blog post subtitle: "You might fit ... will probably turn me into bacon. (Speaking of which, do you know what form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... the wildfire burning 13 miles south of me. I'm also looking forward to ... teaching classes over IAP. I've also acquired a pair of skis so I can now

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... , without the routine of classes and classmates and well-defined goals ... 's no way around it. After a couple years of getting comfortable MIT gives

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... remembered I hadn't eaten all day. You know that sense of entitlement that we ... in its place is a sense of accomplishment. Every year understanding a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Magazine, Wikipedia, and NPR's This American Life. Lots of MIT students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors ... institute. Her senior thesis is in the use of micro-electro-mechanical devises in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... complete list of sessions, click here. You might be wondering, what happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story short, Marilee Jones, our Dean of Admissions, misrepresented her ... say. First, as many of you know, Marilee has built her career around

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  whether or not to come to MIT when really I kind of just want to eat liquid nitrogen ice cream. CPW apparently is one of the best times of the year - as ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007