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• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a smattering of low-impact projects and a lot of friends. i trust my ability to ...   v. i’ve known for a long time that i perceive other people very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  fair attendee. Emily Conn '11 wanted a job in the Media Lab and in order ... hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when ... their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  Course 11 is a small major with a lot of breadth. It is cross ... urban planning and design." For the still-curious, scroll on. These are a ... . Especially after taking D-Lab development (which is a class in course 11) and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96 ... even the flame test. No CPW-goer would set out for a day's adventures ... damaged) for her birthday. Requiring a table and utensils, we headed back

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  ] speaks of the importance of being able to be "on the failure track for a ... cybernetics and himself a prodigy who went to Tufts at 11 and Harvard at 15 ... Times makes for a great gift. Even in this Age of the Internet, I do enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  homeless that I started with my friends last month. On November 11, 2015 ... goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our message and empower students like us to believe that they too can make a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  trusted my intuition and hoped for the best. I made some wrong turns that ... off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... in the tunnels with friends a few times before, but as a directionally

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  It's time for one of those "It's late and I'm up, I should throw crap ... . That being said, enjoy! First, and most importantly, Dan Sauza's Gamer Ballad is a must watch. He performed it at the Conner 2 talent show tonight

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  looking both awesome and silly in front of a TARDIS poster imported from ... a half-unfinished PSET due at 11:45am tomorrow and should probably go ... able to take a break this weekend to watch scary movies or dress up for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The ... particularly good for freshmen because there's always someone doing a problem set ... which point Housing puts you in a temporary dorm. You live there for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... have a really cool website where you can see the program for the whole ... was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  , and most importantly....food. (seriously, there's so much food for you ... preliminary idea of where you might be happy. (There's a very important event ... go to for a lot of people. There's also Senior House's infmaous bouncy

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  .Read some books. 9. Taken a Physics course 10. played in the snow. 11 ... a bunch of reasons like cutting edge research blah blah blah you all ... friends, is IAP. IAP stands for Independent Activities Period, but it may

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  yourself in a nice room and do nothing but work. That's my plan for the day ... experience for you today so that you can get a sense of what you may get to go through exactly one year from now. That's what the blogs are for, right? A

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  that for a future blog post."]Very cool stuff,[/annotation] but I digress ... several important reasons: It only uses infrared light (and a tiny amount ... ="768"] Absorbance FTIR spectra that I measured for the scarf (top) and a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  attention was trained on fall of 2015. For me (like I think it is for a lot of ... blinding goal, a safety net for things that I wasn’t satisfied with in high ... from a lot of new questions). I arrived at a few important points. 1. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  college. After qualifying for a scholarship program, he traveled from ... for a sixteen year old. (He spent my entire childhood swearing it was ... tighter, as if enough pressure would coax the misery out, but, for all she

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  wife back in March, and with me having the kiddos for Fall Break (it's a ... . Highly recommend, and I'm super excited for them to be opening a location ... before sitting down and just breathing quietly for a while. We spent a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025