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  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  day', which since yesterday is declared to be celebrated every year in ... November) it is designed to raise Latino pride in Next House and was designed ... bailout drama, Obama appointments, riots in Greece, and hackers installing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of ... bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding ... over to the Stata Center to retrieve it (the ambulance lives in the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know ... . In my opinion, it will work against you. Remember that should you go to

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  embarrassed for other people to see your mess...but you would still let them in ... or telephone, because the piles have expanded to cover the items up ... DID YOU KNOW? In Burton-Conner, if you keep leaving your suite messy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... down in the parking lot with their head in oncoming traffic to get the ... on some Course X exams. If you happen to be in the Boston area this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  dining hall. I look forward to these dinners each week – the people in my ... evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... Bostonians use to ride the T."]back to campus[/annotation]. I was surprised

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  . Now it's time to meet in real life :) And hopefully, you don't tell me ... settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P ... ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  'll be back. I've got to go out in the hallway and cry." Howard Brown ... -Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, or perhaps you think of President Susan ... , like Reid Barton or Laurel Yong-Hwa Lee. But you probably don't think

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  reading the newspaper in my free time. I swear this entry wasn't just to ... schedules. First off, in order to even take the MCATs, you need to have taken ... get it out of the way and not have to worry about squeezing it in later

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  around campus in her epic Machine Shops entry. But she missed my place... ;) Where architecture comes to life with wood and more.Two afternoons each week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  're interested in math research (or are interested in becoming interested in math ... people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... problems for the students to tackle together. If the students reach

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more details about Mathematica, be sure to check it out. Today though, Wolfram ... engine called "Wolfram Alpha." It's not like Google in that it doesn

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... over, you've gotten more work than you know what to do with, and a ... day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  pleasure in watching the space go from cluttered to empty. It also helped me ... to take home for a week before I return to campus in June. [Friday 5 ... going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was ... worth making me fail my 2.001 test ( not trying to make you feel guilty or

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  some drafts I made while trying to piece together the diagram in the post ... two or three pieces, then talk about them in class. It’s my favorite ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  letters. They also didn’t look or feel like other silk fabrics I was used to ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... to misery.” The original plan of marking the distance with feet or ... industry and developed a super sick formula to trade derivatives in foreign

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or ... that I'm excited to see more of in my remaining half a year living here ... choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical ... MIT! I arrived in Cambridge one month ago, but it feels like its been ... me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018