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• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  The first substantial snowfall was yesterday, December 9. Things about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9 ... it, and it becomes slush. More stupid: rain's bastard little half

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  ... time... haha, see what I did there? I should stop.), Bill and Ted ... that means I have both the TIME to watch movies AND constant access to ... : Another Earth Of Gods and Men A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  head. MIT, the place that I call home, the place where I learn and live, the place where I felt safe, threatened by armed people? And all this ... happen? I sought solace from some other friends and watched the events

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... minute, though, I whipped out my blogger "media" credentials and managed to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  ’t sleep, but I am not one of those. None of my close friends are, and I ... information as well when you’re awake, and you might say or do some things ... , and they also need weekends, if not only to catch up on sleep. No matter

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  presses, and even a 3-D printer! Now that I think about it, I wish I had ... wonderful and free as the Edgerton Shop, the only catch is that you have to ... thinking that training is probably awful and really boring. BUT this is MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT). The reading and selection period has been intense as ever this year, but I promise as we approach mid-March, I hope to have some more blog updates

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  " and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... a gift, and started thinking about how the algorithm behind the ... studying his tickets and some statistical sleuthing, but he discovered a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  morning, meaning I woke up at 7:15 (the horror!). The house is empty and I ... lectures focused more on conceptual things and “thinking like a programmer ... time I checked in... We learned about hashing, and how it's a trade

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  by the amount of spam and youtube videos that are coming into my inbox ... : Watch her discuss MIT at Fire and Ice! haha "You can become anything

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  (7 mini and colorful, 4 retractable) Hand sanitizer Laundry ... balls, yoyos, bottle openers, sunglasses, cozies And my personal favorite, a wind-up boogie robot I just recently sorted, organized, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of ... the end of the show...and here is how we kicked off the beginning of the

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  chemistry, physics, and English in four and a half hours. (oh, and write two ... abroad through things like D-Lab, and on campus in research labs through ... our IAP listing, and Mystery Hunt!!, see this year's), or to just go

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  ! Honestly, I'm amazed, I have tweeted exactly 10 times in over a year and I have 30 followers. I'm not that interesting, honestly, and I don't use ... and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  training and have started working on the MIT-EMS ambulance. On your end: CPW ... narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a ... . There will be hundreds of booths and thousands of strangers handing out

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  duality of feelings of both win and fail. Anywho, I'm back on track now. And

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  , big yard, and law students? The one whose t-shirts hog all the space on ... slight rivalry between Harvard and MIT. Whenever I'm talking to ... is inferior, that while on the outside they seem nice and p(r)eppy, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... , during which I applied pressure to the On button, and the Blog for MIT ... trip in New Hampshire and fall down a slope and break my collarbone on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and is currently emailing all ... , and to not admit the remaining 530. Unfortunately, the committee was not

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  (after I'm done with the exam and the two psets I have to do after the exam ... much about them. ;) (just stress out about Physics C, Calc, and English

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008