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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013. Those fluffy dandruff-like powdery demons were cute for the first three

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... Obama rally the night before the primaries. I've never attended a ... , Obama was the only one to have a public rally in Boston. I think I shall

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  wandering the hall for a few hours I got a quick lunch at Tommy Pastrami ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  can't very well talk about the ENTIRE INTERNET because you'd be here for the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... , joining in for a cooperative effort. Also, The Coop is based off of a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  past. This was a new phenomenon for me: I’d spent the first 18 years of ... ="aligncenter" width="225"] yay 6.1010![/caption] 6.1200: a.k.a Math for Computer ... song about graph theory for the class earlier this week, which I’ll write

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  later (on a timer still for the sake of the game :P), but at this point we ... chose the prompt "Write about a useless fact" for two reasons: I know ... creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  sets take a significant portion of their time throughout the week. Here ... most likely assigned reading for your classes that just add to the time out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  the banner, for some unknown reason. Anyway, as much as I admire the ... Course 2 or 6 major for the rest of eternity, or at least until someone ... to department open-houses, and declare a major in Physics. Putting the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  really great students on the waitlist who we wished we had room for. We ... admissions for this year and let the remaining waitlist students focus on their schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  Last week, I spoke a little about Camp Kesem, one of the many student ... together a free summer camp for kids whose parents have cancer. As I ... single day: once through a Pepsi account and once if you add the "Pepsi

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Longfellow and stayed in the garden for a little bit before signing myself up for a free guided tour. The whole thing threw me back to when I used to ... schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group ... difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a ... rotating cylinder the size of a carousel essentially. Then imagine seats that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  The blogfathers in the admissions office requested a while back that ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... each floor, along with one graduate student (called a "GRT," for graduate

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason ... ridiculously good skiier (that really is him, by the way). I'm from a beach ... off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a ... Ideas, so I approve. East Campus has been buzzing and punting for the past few weeks in preparation for this weekend's events.  You can see the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  ’t the application process. It’s called vacation for a reason. And take ... the clock is ticking down. Anything might happen—there could be a power outage, the Wi-Fi could fail, your pet could have a meltdown, the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  beliefs. For now, for the coming summer, I have a few small things I want ... is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate ... alike, and in the meantime, revel in the minutiae of life. Go for a walk ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We yeeted that bag into the freezer for like a week, and by the time I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  mean you should take your own notes, but a TA is actually taking all the ... this, a lot of the stuff I feel like I should takes notes on are ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025