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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  dozen times in several disorienting patterns of color.  As I wander ... than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  important to you. That said, you're probably wondering why I would expose ... between work and fun, and I would think that's true for most students here ... they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I've ever had in my ... ribs I'd ever had in my life. My hunger tore through me. The world went ... , shoving it in my pocket, so I couldn't be identified while I was Food

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in ... , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey ... separately but not together. No one warned me how chaotic timing would be

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling ... Mikey since last year's waitlist decisions were posted in May?!" Well

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  one really good piece of advice, I would keep this list to heart. Now ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the ... do them? (I tend to limit my response to no more than 3 activities in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center ... was to wear heels in the snow, as if we were all wearing heels. (NOTE: I honestly can't decide if that would've been worse). But once we settled in to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family ... backs of donkeys in the developing world, said, “The reason I love working ... and make it work in the world. " Now that’s a theme I can really stand

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  the college application process was over, all the complications in life would vanish. Not so. After I mailed in my deposit, I received an ... it would be a great way to continue my love for art in a, well, tech

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... lecture was the only circumstance in which he would be admitted to MIT ... Vermillion in 1962.”) He also joked about how he was afraid that he would also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  , and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international ... squeezed in an hour-long workout. With the rest of my day, I will work in my

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... crab. Since I’m smiling in the picture, I can only presume that I was ... costumes in class! After class ended around 4pm (6.0002 recitation), I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... should I attend with my child?" In truth, there won't be very many of them ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  in Early Action. When should I fill it out? As soon as possible ... available for classes you’ve taken in your current academic year. I am ... in
 the subject section like this: Java I (taken at B

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  thinking about a career in medicine? This would be a good one to attend. 12 ... Cambridge! ------------------------------------- Can I fill in YES on the ... as I write this and should be finished in a few days. Your host will

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  . It got to the point where people would ask Isabella and I if there was ... the intense welding arc with naked eyes would not be fun. I point out ... the molten metal from reacting with the oxygen in the air, which would

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... heard about Anne in a conversation that I had with a friend early this ... It was about three weeks ago that I found myself standing outside the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to ... I interviewed my roommate Dora ’18 about her day today and here is a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... → ∞, V(t) → V(∞) ≡ E_L + R_mI_e. Setting t_0 equal to the current time in ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I've blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin '16 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016