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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  night after a chapter meeting, they decided they were going to mark the ... Lambda Alpha Chi, the pledges, to repaint it. What started as a funny ... industry and developed a super sick formula to trade derivatives in foreign

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously cut out meat.  I expected this vegetarian thing to last maybe a month ... ). I tried to go vegetarian once before, in February, when I stayed on a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things ... are working hard to stay together, I thought I'd have a unique

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  is the edge of the Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur (now lowered to a ... West Side Story to swing to a celebration of the Roaring 20s. Other ... have to design and execute such a beautiful display. My friend Jamal E

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  remember giving them my name and symptoms and they told me to take a seat and ... drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an ... to do in my busy schedule of having a fever and sleeping it off. S^3

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  lives back up where they left off. Next up - my mom goes on a mission to ... concentration cell. It sounds like a good place to study for an exam. That's not ... run through a wire. Eric --> Eric+ + e-." "Now we're going to move

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... emails. Just to see what happens. Learn to cook. Even if you're on a ... . Master all the steps to the Cupid Shuffle. You'll be a hit at prom. Go

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw ... pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... , leading to a lot of frosh from warm climates making exclamations like "OMG ... with a friend and her roommate to celebrate her birthday. It was cold and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for ... Student Street. Follow the parade to a New Orleans Jam session for the MIT ... open to the entire MIT community and will be a great way to celebrate New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  , my first response is to say Missouri with a somewhat sheepish ... '''s, [annotation note ="In fact, I never hear it when being introduced to a fellow ... , to a chorus of concerned “no, what?”'s."]microwaved pad thai

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / CPW

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

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the ... . During CPW, a thousand prefrosh descend upon the MIT campus to participate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  freshmen year, about a dozen students are appointed to the Ring Committee (by ... fun a little bit, but I'm glad I went to the Premiere, which was a ... mentioned a bunch of positive things too, but somehow the reporter forgot to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  'm starting off with a huge, monolithic apology to John Curtice, mostly because ... ambitious scheme to stage a blog entry that would not only win a Pulitzer but even force the Pulitzer committee to start a new Pulitzer category for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  MIT tracking shows a missing component, please fax it to 617-687-9184. Note that ... .T.) Chain Reaction What is the F.A.T. Chain Reaction? Better to see it ... a link, which is then connected to another link and becomes one giant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  )! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where ... an externship, some will learn a language, some will do research, some will build a Stirling Engine, among the many options. A couple IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a child he saw a priest make that hand gesture to a congregation, and was so ... Courage-Custer. That got a lot of whoops. It was impossible not to hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday ... a button that says "View Update." Make sure that you are ready to ... I've stopped listening to Jenny's cozy destress vibes playlist while

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  , and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I ... had to look it up on a map. I also tend to know nothing about geography

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009