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• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  to the end to find out what this is ;)[/caption] Last month, I had the ... to update this post once they reveal their identities ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right ... overthinking. You end up having to sleep due to fatigue and most likely will wake up with a clear mind and higher spirits, ready to face the day. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the range, when I did Splash 2017 (as a senior and before I got accepted to ... to 18! There is really one more reason I wanted to talk about Splash

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If ... cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry ... (delicious) food, exchange ideas, and work together to build exciting tech ... matchmaking via fingerprint. (To learn about what it’s like to organize Hack

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT. From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and ... moving to the west coast in about six weeks to start as an adjunct lecturer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  candy) happened yesterday afternoon, people flocked to Save TFP’s Spooky ... costumes, merriment, and, apparently, smashing things. You have to relieve ... random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... contained this bit of dialogue Friend: Hey Nat, when do you head over to ... long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... about moving to pika. "They say there's always a place at MIT, no matter

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to ... 's never too late to check the IAP listings by today's date and attend an impromptu event you didn't have to register for. The dark matter lecture I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... people to append notes to each comment. What they're not terribly well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath ... composition?" "If you want to call it that, man, I'm just blowing!" When he

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there ... very simplified nutshell, the LHC seeks to reproduce scenarios similar to the beginning of the universe (read:Big Bang). In doing so they hope to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A ... happy and wistful to watch my fellow students bump and set and spike, as I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  humanities? My response is if they want to spend four years studying 18th ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some reason, people don't seem to realize that you can come to MIT, major in ... political science and economics), and then go to law school. Actually, surveys

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  you know I recently added a new member to our family. Miles Nathaniel Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife tried valiantly (15+ hours) to deliver naturally. Considering his size and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything ... school, and you still have to go to classes, and I still don't really like ... . =) Personally though, I'm just going to skip right along to.... 7.012, which is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005