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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and, like, get your PhD in doing that. 6. Why bother to photograph and ... inter-floor activity fund whereby the entire dorm gets $3000 a term to ... Comm meeting in late September to allocate the preciously limited funding. This

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  events in your undergraduate career where you get to see so many people in ... months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... committee was to get changed and get hyped.  At 6:30pm, doors opened. I was

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front ... in, took off my coat, and was immediately challenged to an arm wrestle ... table saw my handful of plastic Ben Franklins and invited me to buy in. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in ... take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate ... feeling in the air. Listening to the exciting vamp in the background

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In ... best to be as resourceful as possible. There is a process of getting our ... department we are in, so similar to MIT, there is an focus on exploring other

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  all the way up to Boston. You'll still get in great shape, you'll still ... just to get into Boston. I feel kind of dumb now thinking that my moment ... --there's a nice one in Cape Cod. Take the Bolt Bus down to New York (not the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... you understand what characteristics they are looking for in order to ... is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  As I mentioned in my earlier post, I wanted to follow up with more ... moment! To submit Parts 1 and 2, log in to your account on MyMIT. You can ... school report form. To reiterate a few other things mentioned in previous

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets ... to tell everybody in the floor lounge while we ate our Chinese food. I ... , but also how they'd built it in the hallway and nobody had been able to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... probably wouldn’t even get in. Sadly, even though the talk was held in ... couldn’t meet her, or get her to sign the two books that I brought

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  to realize that its students need to get out more, so we actually have ... records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a ... . It's a great way to escape the MIT bubble and get some (literal) fresh

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  officer to get a more official opinion! If you're interested in learning ... get to college, you will be able to sample classes in a variety of ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in ... . When I make appointments to "get coffee" with someone, I do not actually ... instruction and practice in the forms of communication specific to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their ... ? Will they hang out in lounges, hallways, or rooms?  It's harder to ... 's interesting to think about how student community will change with it. In this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  that every Wednesday, we'd bring in our compositions and get to work on ... DID YOU KNOW? In his second autobiography, published in 1991, Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with almost 20,000 women. Since he was 56 at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  generous financial aid, anytime money is involved people tend to get stressed ... development) backend is awful and really gets in the way we needed some better ... the site to surface old content and help people get access to useful

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most ... never works permanently. Every once in a while, somebody tries to clear up ... wanted to print the current W1MX logo on a PCB, but the best he could get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... them into the fire and have to start over. Sometimes we get creative

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  intellectual reader to draw the conclusion themselves." 3. Put song lyrics in the ... pursuits in lieu of stable high-paying employment. Add dialogue to your blog ... in the first place," make sure to repeat that argument multiple times

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way ... -stage to their partners in rhyme and to their fans in the audience. The ... someone. Now, it's good to stay in contact with your close friends from

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011