Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of ... was stopped in traffic on the Mass Pike. (I don’t recommend this) But I ... what books are in your beach bag? I’d love to know. Happy Summer!

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... people ever tell you how pretty your cities are?!?!) I have about 200 pages of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can ... letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The other FAQ I've been getting is, why so few EA admits? 200220032004 EA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  life in the city, and my friends. I should get on that. At least I got my fifth stack of homework in today on time. Yeah. I'm going to sleep ... Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  before. In fact, I know the guy who made it, so it made for a great story to tell everybody in the floor lounge while we ate our Chinese food. I ... could get it out. That's when, and I can't remember exactly who, but, some

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  in my life. I put the offer in my family group chat and everybody was ... money from writing. Then more offers came in. And then I had decisions to make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... immature, petty and enjoy a good sexual innuendo or two. as i share these

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Look at these pictures I drew in class from my lecture notes this semester

  

  [caption id="attachment_83529" align="aligncenter" width="550"] belugas actually don't have dorsal fins but uhhhh who cares[/caption] [caption id="attachment_83530" align="aligncenter" width="768"] i found out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  notes I take in a typical week of classes.  2.086- Numerical Computation ... before every lecture (1.5 hrs MW), so I opt to listen in and annotate those ... , at least in my experience thus far. I hope these notes were

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  the introduction: MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse ... times more students came from Turkey than from Texas.   In 1909

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in ... many qualified applicants for too few spots in the class. Also, as I said in one of my comments in the last thread, I wish people would stop

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... the anxieties I mentioned in my last few posts, I think I've made (some ... in past years I would take on lots of scheduled tasks even over IAP and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud ... fraternity men are both diverse and intellectual, respect women (at least in my

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  spaces that can support such a large audience. Typically, we plan months in ... and sound techs are up in the booth, Ceri, Nikki, and I are calling the ... before showtime, Ceri, Nikki, and I posted up in Kresge while each group

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  really like when things are clean, to the extent that I can’t p-set in a ... We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle ... nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something. ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  peanut butter, bread, and Nutella (in case France declares war, I guess ... probably clutching your intestines in fright and wondering if Draino can be ... hallucinations of a McDonald's worker on NyQuil, so I departed to my floor in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... to meet our target class size. With that figure in mind, I was ... that you will do wonderful things in the world, wherever you end up. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  continuing work in research and achieving a doctorate in my field. I hope to ... keep in touch with the friends and contacts that I made abroad. MISTI ... internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011