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• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at ... deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced around 4:00pm and eating will commence. $500 in prize money will be awarded in the following categories: -Apple Pie -Apple Cobbler, Crisp, or

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... have won the "Best of Boston" award (given by Boston Magazine) in the ... competition they have in this category, but a winner is a winner. The store

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been working as Burton-Conner's summer desk captain. Unlike being a deskworker in ... payoff being that you get free summer housing plus a stipend in exchange

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  back tomorrow and read about homemade gnocchi in butter-thyme sauce and ... Campus Police headquarters, in front of which we saw this group of four adults in black belts. So, parents, you don't need to worry anymore about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day, so multiple visits are encouraged. I know I'll be back in the fall for ... shops here in Boston and Cambridge and give you the dish on what's hot and

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... International House of Pancakes kind of sucks, in theory... it's relatively far ... life being a few BU students in various stages of inebriation. We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... debate. He could relate; he used to be UAVP himself! In fact, he was Matt ... '06, who were watching Star Wars in 6-120. On Saturday, a bunch of 5th

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... Police, who brought in a bunch of flags (USA, Massachusetts, MIT) and

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge ... experience. I think in some ways I've been able to develop a healthier ... dress up in evening clothes and have a three course meal). In general

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  Broadcasting System''), but things changed in the late 1970s: Ted Turner, who intended to distribute his TV station in Atlanta (then called WTCG) over ... ) * Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell) * You Can't Always Get What You Want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... money each student needs in financial aid to attend MIT. We will meet ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... [annotation note="the U belongs in labour!!"]spelling that feels slightly off ... boiled alive in 90 deg C) writing the date the ‘wrong way’ (so apparently

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics ... seen in my life). His catch phrase (he would hate me for calling it that ... once it’s frozen, you throw it in a food processor with a bit of lemon

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... . MIT took me in, ragged at the edges, with sharp spots and pieces that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified, with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... when you enter the 'blue wing' in the museum[/caption] Right as we went

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  weekly. Classes (not including in class time) [annotation note ... schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up ... stipend hasn't come in yet and I already paid off my summer housing so I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past ... of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge ... that we call Sekkrit Satan. The premise is the similar in that everyone

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022