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• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  half of the grand plan is moving fast on track. Two weeks ago, the MIT ... '10 & Mary Hong '10 hold up the fruit of the club's months of hard ... all the schools withstanding rounds and rounds of forms and sparring

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17 ... . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  , Google, Tumblr, Twitter, Yelp, and Google! (I spent a lot of time at the ... the world had come for the sole purpose of recruiting me! Well, not ... of other events, but nonetheless I found the time to make the trek over

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial ... of the world’s most important centers of information technology
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours ... adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking ... , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah ... , until the lady got tired with how incredibly stupid I was and started

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday ... students from the waitlist on Friday. I don't know if we'll take more people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... then for the remainder of the semester, you and your team build a fully

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  everyone headed out for the break. There were a lot of preliminary project ... philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of ... if those deadlines hadn’t been postponed. The second part of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  The i3 project features all 11 of MIT's dorms. The preliminary housing ... funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends were the "fathers/mothers" of the project. I'm happy to see it continue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  Ah, glorious government holidays! Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the day ... bacteria this morning (for the MCATs, of course), and I noticed that the names for the shapes of bacteria -- cocci, bacilli, spirilla-- sound

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch ... of the eclipse totally unworthy of viewing, and hide them from all of ... , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the ... (two weekends ago) Members of the BU or MIT MUN program are given the ... the conference from the other side of the spectrum. Joining MUN

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  the bustling activity of the seniors packing up their belongings and ... be no Ruth or Sam around all the time to make Conner 2 the bastion of ... ) about the series(!) finale of my ex-favorite TV show, Veronica Mars. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  student groups doing fun activities. 58% of the admitted Class of 2009 are ... , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is ... . Another nice shot of the liquid nitrogen ice cream (aka "CryoFAC"). Cryo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  qualified no longer existed at the time of competition -- Serbia-Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the ... -hundred-something bears, each one decorated by one of the countries in the United Nations

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  ), would have been yesterday had the events of the past couple of months not ... over Zoom call. But someone had the brilliant idea of throwing a virtual DTYD in the Minecraft version of Porter Room, the room where it usually

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  where nothing is being learned We have an Asian (15% of the total asian population of my school) We have an Hispanic (30% of the total hispanic ... water bottle We have the teacher taking a picture of the lack of learning

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom of the admissions staff that can be credited with the successful ... contributions or the work of other admissions officers, our roles in the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011