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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Campus courtyard grill. A traditional email to EC residents confirmed that ... Campus even had to move rush burger grilling indoors. Last year, I spent a ... is, and it reminded me how grateful I am to live in a community where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  students who've never touched a nerf gun before the opportunity to shoot one. i wanted to give middle school and high school students a chance to go ... ? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff ... caused Conner 4 and Conner 5 to become filled with a bunch of Asian people ... the school year I had a pretty consistent sleep schedule, go to bed

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy ... occupants that was below 7, bedrooms too small to turn into doubles, a weird

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  walked around for three hours. Then, he was off to do soundchecks. A few ... Black Eyed Peas played to a sold-out crowd at the TD Banknorth Garden. I ... besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... physical device itself, and has to make the flash look like a traditional

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our ... of people who will have to hang together, and there is a great sense of ... fellow men and women. It took a competition like that to remind me of it so

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys. Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a ... friends/free time has changed a lot since I got to MIT. One of the biggest ... spent a lot of my time going from place to place to place, but we were

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and ... just to make sure you get through that class a little easier or get to ... 'right' way to do MIT. I personally take 3-4 classes a semester and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it was ... to stay, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing- or anyone’s fault ... the soap-opera-ness of it all. Those moments have a tendency to stick

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for the part i have yet to finish, and as a result i am usually discontent ... summer i was working at a startup whose focus was to build infrastructure

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  current residents to keep pushing forward and doing great things. I found a ... my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... lucky we all are to have a home like Tetazoo. Lauren S. '16 and Micky D

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk ... relative, though it seems as though he was a great one to many other people

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History. According to a Johns Hopkins Magazine story, capped off his history minor by ... -accelerating rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... poke your interviewer if it’s been a couple days since you reached out to ... try to reassign you to a different interviewer (be patient as it may

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no less. the project, which Karyn refers to as a "20-channel Frankenstein

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were ... Mocha Moves members to choreograph a piece for our virtual set a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  lacking - communication. I've been working on a project to collect and ... into a more in depth article or brochure to hand out to MedLinks as the ... Links program to a wide variety of people - undergraduates, graduate students

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014