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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  ("Marvin the Cupcake Man") is making a ton of cupcakes for you all! Come to ... event you want to attend or star each event for every day on your phone so ... for if you fit in well with the culture there. Talk to different

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have some time to share some MIT funnies. These are examples of things that ... Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  to visit MIT, danger signs you see posted on doors, LEGOs, and tons of ... write whatever they want. It's an open forum, a place for prefrosh to ask ... , please try to keep the comments relevant and useful for the prefrosh

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy ... food I love. Now this post isn't to say that these are undoubtedly the ... for various reasons that I'll explain. We'll start off with Teriyaki

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who’s going to be here over the next few days for CPW, I can promise you that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for ... -old bagels, and even living in a bunk bed in a walk-in closet for while to ... funds for our latest product. We've been so fortunate and blessed to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... : the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to ... Friedan to put feminism on the map, and so forth. They were real activists

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this year's Nobel Prizes ... this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll.  Which MIT professor is your pick to win a Nobel Prize this year? Vote Now on Facebook The "nominees

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  be going about 145 knots to land in this plane". Lower the landing gear ... active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... signing up for it.  It sounded pretty shiny.  In classical me mode, my first

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  ", or the costs attendant to searching for employment in down labor ... excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It's an excellent age for video games - Mortal Kombat was released 18 years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... usually like to make something more complicated for potlucks, but I was ... pretty similar to a Bolognese sauce for pasta, except a little spicier. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... about you to maximize your experience when you come here. For example, my ... own feel for how you will do at MIT.  Sure, it's nice to maybe meet up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emma Subject: BEST DESK CALL EVER To: bmf me ... : can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for ... slipped my mind that I was supposed to dress up for these kinds of things. I ... sonata or whatever when he was 5 Laura says: haha so there's hope for me to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... 't have time to breathe." Night only falls for 4-8 hours a day, depending on ... hard, this is the perfect place for you to build more and bigger rockets

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  't be able to make it to their class. I then took some notes for ... gotten it since it gives me an excuse to not go to any of my responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song ... loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go ... something to blog about from the afterlife. 5. Ben, for treating Mitra and me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  addition to more large-scale happenings at the List Center for the Arts, the ... trains and spills throughout their land. It was interesting to see the ... requirements for getting licensed as an architect, which is what 1) allows you to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  am still trying to figure out things for myself, I really want to offer ... something that I have wanted to do for a really long time and I am so excited ... “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... history was a real passion for me, I'll always be able to do it on the side ... best choice for me (they love to say, disdainfully, "isn't MIT a school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009