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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... graphing calculator or Petri dish* and you can hear the distant sounds of ... campus, I can’t wait for summer to end. I missed you guys!

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... competition I participated in late last year (in May of 2004). Now that I ... write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  my bike, but I haven't seen it in any of the normal places I go, so I ... though. I always miss all the good stuff in the Midwest - last year while I ... now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... park at the rest stop itself or just stop in the middle of the highway ... 'm forgetting, but these should get you started. Anyone know where I can get a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  MIT to compete in front of YOU for prizes and bragging rights. Yuan ... stuff, and Shaye here's in charge of the music. Shaye: Rock! m/ Yuan ... Lab, right? The one that's mostly made of MIT freshmen? Shaye: Yeah. I

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... chin in direction of the aardvark) Case 815. PIERCE: Case 815 ... turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than ... 've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  view of what I do when I'm not sleeping, or walking, or in class, or ... nutrition handbooks for the discussion portion of the course. I lowered ... . We were in the Du-Pont Multipurpose Room, which, like the Room Of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... everything: "But the truth is, we can’t science the shit out of every problem

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high ... cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... -- so you can gather opinions from many sources.) I should note that there ... you have to live at East Campus in order to find it :-). Each of the ten

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster ... ). Juggling is fun. I hadn't gone in a while. I spent a lot of time playing with ... Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the ... end” (John Lennon). I hope this a guest post of sorts can help you ... many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... studying pulsars. PULSARS!!! I can't wait. </NEWSFLASH> Twisted as this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  On sunny days, I like to wander through MIT's gorgeous campus. Below are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light between Building 18

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  of explaining what he does than I can. Anyways, enjoy. Hope y'all are ... 's of Engineering in EECS. (Actually, it looks like since then, Colin ... So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  primary concerns I get from students: 0) How can I do all of this? There ... science fiction! They have over 90% of ALL SCI-FI PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH ... academic reason. It's one of the few shops where you can be a little more

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  presented. I applied to MIT with an interest in Course 9, and nothing I ... strange to declare my major. When I walked out of the Course 9 Undergrad ... was going somewhere in this world. I still have a few GIRs left to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  Ok. Well, I've been kind of busy these days. Taking 5 classes (2 CIs ... magnetic disk, in spite of the fact that flash memory is distinctly unlike a ... any questions - I know it's kind of hard to follow at first. (And as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008