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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter. “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... My apologies to Clement Clark Moore. ‘Twas the night before finals

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  -year class plan of the department in which you plan to major. I'm being ... I just presented some intercultural communication challenges in the ... Friday by 11:59:59 PM. I love assignments due by email. :-) I still need to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... additional human in our life. Currently we are trying to negotiate the many ... in an effort to regain your status as the "spotlight child." I also

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually ... In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... . One spoonful of corn chowder was allotted to each resident, provided

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tunnel Adventures We didn't get lost, in case you were wondering.

  

  to an elaborate system of tunnels that wind under and in between the ... endeavor (video-editing credit goes to Carin '13). Note that in real life, we ... 've neither seen nor participated in said activities. Instead, I've mainly used

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  Pepper Lemon Garlic Powder Oregano Olive Oil Instructions: Preheat oven to ... sides of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a blender or food processor, take your plantain chips, oregano, and garlic powder and crush to your

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  with which Fleming has responded. In their honor, we wish to afford them ... In my email this morning: The Howe & Ser Moving Company cordially invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my homework requires me to be online--so, while I'm supposed to be looking up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what ... toxins and animals in the ocean you are farrrrr less likely to jump in ... cancer to stick to itself so it was all in a singular location. My ideas

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  specific songs define the distances in my life? A walk from East Campus to ... Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre ... measure a year, I began to wonder what units I use to measure my life. The

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you ... strongly discourage procrastination. The closer you send in your application to the deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  to have an after-work event at which parents would construct gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day ... to date have been answered in the last entry.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  were reunited. Where you might ask? Only at the Classic Arcade Museum in ... describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins. So Saturday afternooon, I was en-route to a surprise dinner with my

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  and try to visit as many regions as possible to deliver presentations about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a ... meeting everyone who will be there (here)! In the meantime, I'm off to a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  freshman was choosing to join a fraternity. It was, in retrospect, also one ... updating this later tonight. In the meantime, I would love to hear questions ... more and more about my own freshman year - in particular, the choices I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for ... is to bring together global experts in areas ranging from cryptography

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  this would merely require more students to live in uncomfortable living situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of ... of crowding in campus housing, since freshmen are required to live on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in ... right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way ... suzume, i guess, in how you have to think about how this place was used

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case ... reason to share otherwise, and little captions of what was happening in ... election. Lots of MIT community members gather in Lobby 7 to write on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the MIT ... "yield"), we admitted 1474 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006