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• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... 't get this up now, I will probably lose the motivation in a couple of days ... Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get ... incredible detail in the Club layout, from tall buildings all the way down to ... If you don't go to MIT, when you think about "hacking," you probably

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  will get made over by the Fab Five as part of their new season in Las ... Card Stud." Ed double majored in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Physics at MIT. After graduation, he took his skills to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  encourage students to get used to talking with them, they'll take any kind of ... So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We ... editorial in the high school or town newspaper, etc. You may send these to us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do ... have their own lengthy Wikipedia page, in addition to a chronology at ... : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  room (with a TV!! except I don't get to watch TV that often...) - In ... in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... Cormick Hall :) To begin with, here's the front - in all its December snow

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  OF KETCHUP PACKETS, 33-541!) I'm going to be getting free food five ... somewhere to be in 45 minutes. I looked inside the new reading room and, you ... , although we only managed to get up to around 38 before program coordinator Dr

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to ... real publication sold on newsstands that people actually want to read ... magazine with an extra section devoted to MIT-related news & articles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  my footwear in the Simmons bathroom. I needed to get out. The roach had ... else in my boot. I was quite certain of that. But I still needed to check ... I searched for the optimal way to get above ground) … ran back inside

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  peers who are happy to get up at 9 AM on a Saturday in December to solve ... that lead to success in high school math competitions carry over to the ... , securing the MIT team's first-place ranking--our team has finished in first

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  you really wanted to embarrass (uh...) in the middle of class. By far ... heart throb of more than one female I know. To get a taste of this, here ... COMING TO MIT. So every year we have this thing called Spring Weekend (the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  they're desperately trying to get away from you, but they can't because of the crowd. Does that ever happen to you? [Class mumbles in the ... ! [Class groans.] Come on, what else is there to do in bed?" 9.04, Neural

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  rule, cheer for any team which asks us to. The water polo coach came in ... about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... /MArch program, which student can apply to in their junior year. In the junior year ... to support students. I considered majoring in Architecture when I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  system. (I introduced this to you sometime in February.) Our effort is ... to "be mobile," in the sense of exchange of information in a mobile ... semester. We also incorporated many of them in our formal presentations to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried protesting that the glass must be jam-packed with the energy I need to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... . Here are some essay tips to consider (in no particular order): Don ... had one paragraph dedicated to parks in the fall and one dedicated to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015