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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play ... to a camp like RSI for admission purposes - other than for its own sake as a summer camp that one might go to for fun and learning? Does the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  ) Lex lives in a house called "Malkovich." Coming up with a name for a ... Malkovich (a great but disturbing film, if you haven't seen it), where John Cusack's character, Craig, after being unable to find work as a puppeteer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a ... make for the future, and a lot of those decisions involve advising. When ... , telling me to go for a seminar rather than traditional, with an adviser that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself, and for me, that was a lot harder than being responsible for my brothers

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  aforementioned cancellation of my Friday night plans, I set out at 11 PM for a 10 ... Italian cars for the Grand Prix within a fifty yard radius of the Freddie ... except for the teams. So, I planned a 17-hour trip to Switzerland to see a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a ... written anything blog-like over the past half year for a multitude of ... anything anymore? Or was it just a way for the scrapers to source information

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this semester: RING PREMIERE!!! Many of you may know this already, but for those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  chronicle of a snowstorm foretold only a week late ;-;

  

  ="300"] cookies from 2^n cookies, a traditional event for my dorm (east ... be around 0.90 inches, corresponding to a snowfall of around 14 inches ... snow from Monday 06z to Tuesday 06z... — pset submission for my class (12

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  chemical change, so what gives? This has now been bothering me for over a ... down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray ... . But given the speed of the water coming down a slide and the speed of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  solo for the audition, and there was the Concert Choir, a much larger ... for a play, a musical, and a pit orchestra. I figured if I was going to ... the cast and the pit orchestra for a musical, as well as Concert Choir

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  : Outline for Today's Lecture Oxidation Reactions of Alkenes ... were curious, ozonolysis is actually a lot more straightforward than the Wikipedia article would let on. Basically, you take a double bond and some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  course, a big reason for the it being named that, aside from the popularity ... ), This One Jazz Bar. A freshman yelled at me this year for supporting women ... . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  FIRST Robotics, a popular engineering program for middle and high ... "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a semester-long class for mechanical engineering students. The class teaches

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  taken these photos at a later hour without being mistaken for a tourist ... already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a ... photo for the sake of some furniture and a broken umbrella. Actually, we

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  was there for. There had been signs up all over campus for a week or two ... for fun. I am a nerd. I don't think I became a nerd UNTIL I came to MIT ... grabbed a program to read while waiting for the lecture to begin. That

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  . A UROP! That I was under-qualified for? Let's see the relevant skills ... I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for ... Look at this if you don't what a UROP is

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... unluckily for me, everyone seemed to be holding a copy of The Tech on Tuesday ... college essays, and apply for a million scholarships all at once. Dealing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly recommend having one letter from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a letter is
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  my attention span during lectures was the equivalent of a peanut. For ... the most part. Also, it seems tetazoo glounge died out a bit, and for ... I had to sift through my head for ideas. It helped me feel a little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021