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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  begin, in the interest of honesty and full disclosure, by telling you the ... life. It wasn't any of the fancy (really cool) summer programs I blogged ... (especially when you consider the opportunity costs of my not working while I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  . Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small Midwestern town located on the lower left side of the palm that is Michigan (I ... version of the cha cha slide and by the time I turned on my trusty, dandy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY by following one of the ... are available by the 10th of each month and balances are due by the first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months ... knicknacks, and a copy of Zac Gorman's new comic Costume Quest: Invasion of the ... favorite parts of the holiday, I set a bowl outside my door and kept it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  ,"[/annotation] which is a direct rip-off of my pal Valerie's recent Zine projects. The leader of this icebreaker chooses an object or a character that the ... : "Don't look at any pictures of X or the actual, real-life X. Then, draw X

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  -clack of my fingers, as they smacked against the keys. The glare of the TV ... , staring at the white of the screen contrasted by the surrounding darkness of the room.  I hit submit. And I let out a sigh of relief. [annotation

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  costume. Most frequently used line of the evening: "If you or anybody you ... the first of November. The Beatles had already done the whole concert-on-the ... down the Infinite to the tune of S'weight, which was requested of us by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US ... the other country's side of the falls; because of the pandemic, it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ... 'm fully prepared for the prospect of college. Sure, I'm familiar with the basics: the mechanics of purchasing a house, paying rent, getting a job

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  by three hours of MedLinks training, but I got pushed off the front of ... have tours of all the dorms during CPW, which you should definitely try to partake in. All of the dorms have their own unique feeling to it, so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  , challenges I found myself learning to deal with as time fled. I was part of the ... , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria ... an “A” at the end of the semester, a grade that was necessary if I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing ... Peeling back the hood of the code scares me, because underneath it all it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... of the regality of the place). I had told my parents again and again ... nine of us in there. I felt so bad for the chefs! We enjoyed ourselves to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of ... layer of skin dissolves, exposing the nerve endings, so whenever the sore ... the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... seem too long for the rest of his body. He folds and unfolds his arms

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  defined by Wikipedia: "the act of engaging in activities (such as ... entry of computer systems. Hacking is no less than the building of the ... . The second-place-winning project of HackMIT 2013, in the making. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers ... fans by the way), and the panther was lost in the process of moving in. MIT is having an open house of its own this weekend, which will be the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your ... University (Home of the Spartans!) and the University of Delaware, (Home of The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  bedroom, but a classroom. The camera pans over tens of student's heads bent ... thoughts of grief. It was hard to not feel bittersweet about reaching the ... expected to feel some amount of relief with the ending of the school year. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022