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• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  clean, or at least in navigable condition. To this end, I have a much ... feel the week or two before term are the best weeks all year, due to the ... disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Whoever the new housemaster is, I'm only going to have to live with him or ... . And the students also figure that they're going to be gone in a few ... goes down to green, but where they increase in intensity when something

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two snow days in the last week, which meant lots of indoors time. it's kind ... it comes in through the antenna. people have also used these to pick up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ... here? That is something you can’t measure in wins or awards or NCAA

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... it is on campus. The ability to "favorite" or "bookmark" events that ... Phone, or want to do something with the schedule data yourself, here you go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  Part 1 in a timely manner (as close to November 1 as possible), materials ... -258-8304. Again, be patient, as faxed materials take a day or two to process. As you ... testing date might be able to reach us in time, but I've been told recently

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... ’t trace back to the specific moment that I fell in love with science fair ... bullseye in mind. I want you to imagine then, an overzealous freshman

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... . # Always leave things as you found them, or better. # Leave no permanent

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... so we had to explain it to him), Formula 1, and other life in Cambridge ... Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  open and close his door. Whether you believe him or not, I have to admit ... submitted the video to Hack A Day. (In response to whoever commented, "that ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Octopus, Apocalypse or Iron Man, we were always left in awe. In this piece ... question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it ... Engineering), or analyzing memoirs and student essays in 21W.022 (Writing Autobiography), or giving several presentations to a classroom full of your peers

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... -person local, in-person far away, in-person fly-to-CA-on-short-notice), and type ... pleasant surprise. Plus, I volunteered to be a lab assistant in 2.00b: Toy

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  to me in a situation like this-- whether I knew the lyrics or not, my ... 've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... they might need to succeed while they’re there. In short, you get to

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  thing. It’s important to follow up in the weeks or even months after to re ... from the design stage to two annual competitions in May and June, where ... are used day to day in the industry. I think the real point of MIT isn

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre ... month or two later that I had secured a spot in my first choice dorm. Room ... different floors of the dorm and talk to upperclassmen about living in that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers ... over to 66, descend the stairs (as detailed in the last entry), and ... Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... than 500 students are on the waitlist. More than 8,000 students, or 80

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005