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• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  ’m sure it’s true for a not-insignificant percentage of the student ... pretty damn high. Part of me feels bad for prioritizing this over taking a ... conversation a few times, but the more I think about IAP, the more I don’t like

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  okay for portions of my thesis to be under a  Creative Commons - Non ... Alan: Hi! You have words— Fatima: and we want your words— Alan: for our poetry. Fatima: For the past semester, Alan and I have been reading

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  't enough for your parents, you can tell them that MIT has a 24/7 student ... East Campus and ask for me, Array. I'm a Medlink here in East Campus, and ... try attending a class or go to some information sessions for specific

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

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a ... and upperclassmen, and to get a feel for what MIT has to offer socially ... arriving on campus for their orientation, which happens contemporaneous with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  needed for future research from several years to less than a week. Jamie ... geometry." This is a great opportunity, I hope many of you will apply! For ... competitive for another wonderful opportunity: the Davidson Fellows scholarship

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  participating institutions for a set duration. For a list of member institutions ... undergraduate Special Students program is closed except for a very limited number ... opportunities. For a list of current research areas, please visit the research
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  days a week. I say it's for water conservation, but it's totally laziness ... interesting to give it up for a month and see if my life could seem complete and ... with vegetables and tofu--I cook for myself a lot during the school year

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  mind the other day: Poetry is important for the same reason that a ... support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a ... hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  experience with imposter syndrome has been a somewhat interesting one. For me ... can get a PhD in math and teach classes for the rest of my life to ... time), and I can decide to teach a class (yet another story for yet

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  and a pretty innocent misunderstanding. For me personally, it was my first real interaction with MIT. For a majority of the college process the ... that Q&A call and again for the second Q&A during regular

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... , so it's a prized location for playing ultimate, having picnics, and ... location for trying to shoot a better photo, so I took the elevator to the 18

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your endless patience and generosity, & Ivy L. ‘20, who said, I feel like

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  Sharpe Brothers (juggling, diabolo) (For those that don't know, "a ... . (Click here for a full listing of the arts-tagged CPW events.) Anyways ... So...the past few weeks have been CPW central for me - working on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Susan Hockfield’s Private Concert La la la la la la la laaaaaaa!!!!

  

  Yes, we are this cool. We perform our drinking song, in capes, for our president. Also, last year, the Marching Band was a bit more destructive. As you can see, Alex (a prefrosh then, an '11 now) decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  freshman comes home for the summer after just dropping out, as a result of ... “paciencia” for a new-new-normal of a calm post-pandemic world “y fe” that we ... . As a result, all campus events, shows, concerts, etc. are no longer

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... it into yeast along with a DNA that encodes for some random snippet of ... lab for two and a half years, I know what I'm doing in a technical sense

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya's already told you about 6C, but I'll bet it didn't feature a giant spider on a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company ... 've received, The first one is about a lunchtime meeting for the Presidents ... Snapfish account when I was there for a MISTI internship in the Summer of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for “Fruitcake that will sustain you for two days in case of a nuclear attack ... face made for a virile sensory cocktail that stayed in my nerves

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008