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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  getting a free T-shirt shoved into my arms. I felt like Napoleon, doing his ... about this store, I can't see anything that's really different from a ... -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i ... is heavily concentrated in two assignments (a small project and a final ... a way i've felt in few other classes. + PE (kickboxing) + weekly club

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  I realized that I had to schedule an interview. It takes me a bit of ... painless in retrospect but I was a little stressed about it. On the ninth, I ... have, but it ended up working. I had a nice conversation with my EC that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  it into MIT. My question is that what should I do about my teacher ... in english. My other question is that my school doesnt offer a lot of ... of a sudden a big optional means that an 800 or 790 or whatever is not

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  some clever trick, but the truth is that I just invested a lot of time ... math. I never felt at any point that I was doing work; in fact, I used to ... to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  do the Overnight Program? No, I'm sorry. I'm still very interested in ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or ... computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a ... deep. (Yes, I do know that Chris Vu passed the first round of auditions

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  finally being validated in a very real way. I never cared about that top ... else. I look to the future with a hopeful heart and I know that there is ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  intro out of the way: my name is Max Burns, and I majored in course 2A (mechanical engineering) with a concentration in medical devices. I graduated ... Stanford for my PhD. I grew up in Logan, a small town in southeastern Ohio

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a ... availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... 's a pretty sweet deal - and, to be honest, I think that I would have to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  on it. As a prefrosh, I didn't know that much about the dorms so RBA was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live ... upperclassman that helps run the seminar and is a resource if you ever have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , started doing turning kicks in a [annotation note="I was not like in a ... in my hip (that I mentioned earlier) better. I would ice it, do ... pretty informally, the last time I did a sport formally was in 8th grade

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  the 70's decor. :) I don't know that I'd say the dorm as a whole is ... -food events, but I think that's probably true of all the dorms. There is a lot ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  window and decide to sleep for another hour. And when that hour is up, you ... coincidences that makes you feel like the universe is aligning itself perfectly ... you trek to a new coffee shop, noting that even the below-freezing cold

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a ... bed[/caption] I stand by that but I hope they never will, up here. They ... days people have been complaining. I grew so convinced it was hot that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  , just like the class drop form, is due in a week. I keep forgetting to ... Combinator-backed startups. Do I have any real interest in any of that? Not ... the brim?  Normally, I wouldn't want that at all, but there's a part of

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  that you can’t see I clearly messed up. But in the end, I got a decent ... , which is right below. I used a hexagon in my sketch and revolved the shape ... . Tl;dr: You throw stuff in that has been CADed, you do a bunch of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  work. I have continued in the energy sector as a MITEI and NSF doctoral ... in the US as a nuclear power plant. The city: Clamart is all ... manufacturers. The host:  ENEL is the main power producer in Italy, I

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever include my oh-so-awesome CPW event? Oh right, I'm a blogger. So here it is ... , see, and do! So, if you're coming to CPW this weekend, this is my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011