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• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  which point in a job interview can I ask about salary?"  Stay posted. May ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... only member of the media there.  Arriving a few minutes early, I spotted

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... -major because your three "intellectually coherent unit" subjects can be in your ... , but a lot more of them can be used for whatever you want, not just your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... more energy efficient. I did theater tech in high school, and ... guidance. In the decades hence, he's built up a huge collection of stories

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a ... admissions web site. I hope you like it! In October (when I get back from fall recruitment travel) we'll be launching a centralized Q&A blog, in an attempt

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  of context and that prefrosh understand the background In the past I ... , college websites, read everything you can. Take everything into account. I ... different from what I say. Help people understand other sides of MIT. If you

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of ... a piece of lemon cupcake. Who says old dogs can't learn new tricks? ... for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G i ... door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... the door, especially while I was napping. 4) An earlier version of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  got to a point where, in a moment of despair, I got up and wrote "CODING ... ;skip_registered_account_check=true In 2022, Snoop Dogg changed the course of human history by releasing ... repeating the affirmations does kind of help. I've had many a night where I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... comparable in its effect to the Great Firewall of China Kill websites that ... noticed that the first link I posted in this blog entry was a link to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  glad I missed it The Parent Trap: In this update of a 1961 film, twins ... lot happens in the movie i think the movie does a great job of really ... lot of myself i could see in the movie, especially being as close to my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  . In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the ... , along with the QB supplement, in place of our first-year application ... begin a first-year application in our application portal until you have
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  in the hacking of this hack     but I can't say the ... On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM. One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days ... . What are a thousand kids, with a thousand mattresses, in one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I ... out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business world, I'm sure.) A lot of MIT students enter their senior year without a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  , have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... … and promptly fell asleep in the process of setting my alarm.  When I ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  Well my fellow 09er's, as most of you already know, AP scores are in ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway ... corner of MIT server space (yay!) and I have managed to piece together a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  So tonight, I'm going to watch my friend Timmy '06 and the rest of the MIT Musical Theatre Guild put on Star Wars: The Musical. I'm kind of excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  . I can tell you that the answers (in order) will be a nine-letter word ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... Lobby 7. Paul and I will be on Smallish Momenta (an anagram of "Simmons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead ... immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... ...no joke. But I think the fact that we can name any precise location on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007