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• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank ... for the semester ahead, we took a break to look at the stars (which you

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to expand their analytical and quantitative skills and apply a business ... prepares you for your next step, equipping you with the tools you need to
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... working as Burton-Conner's summer desk captain. Unlike being a deskworker in ... payoff being that you get free summer housing plus a stipend in exchange

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  classes, but I know already that it's going to be a rough semester. In the ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  of scripting in Unity and also got to try out a really amazing VR ... enjoyed this experience and am happy that I finally got to participate in a ... happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  decided to let her "write" this entry in some sense -- I asked her a few ... sister moved up to Boston with me and I did a project in microfluidics ... Engineering Fair, and got to publish a paper in Analytical Chemistry where I was

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  came up last semester over a lunch meeting at the Forbes Family Cafe in ... would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we ... sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  to be a senior this year in aero/astro. (Yes, he's younger than I am ... to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  weeks later decided the next step in the beach theme would be to paint a ... loft. This idea came to me in a flash of brilliance, as we were ... Depot to buy lumber for no fewer than 4 lofts, an picked up a futon all in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  in a tux **Many thanks to Gheorghe '07, from whom I stole many of ... event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... . They don't look like much in these photographs, but they created a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus become awash in color (thanks in part to that unusual snowstorm last week ... '08 give me a house tour. Along the way, I saw a door to add to my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  schools." Is this still a valid/official way to send scores, just in case I ... coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... ? It's always a good idea to contact the coach for your sport if you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  've been able to explore the snow in my hideous moon boots to discover: 1 ... on the dot with the blast of a vuvuzela. Thanks to Facebook and the ... significant chunk of the institute came out to wade knee deep in snow to pelt

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  . In the meantime, I want to thank everyone who applied to be a blogger ... , commas, and empty roads, and has always wanted to grow up to become a penguin Kidist A. ’22 of Georgia (the state), who likes to cite tweets by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• 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…

  

  Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... to pass someone who is driving in your own passing lane (which is ... lead to a collision. Bathroom exits have stop signs too. If you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... out of the MFA in a silent, dream-like stupor of which only a movie as

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  a treat to join in on. And if you enjoy guitar or the flute or the ... is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... capsaicin to get a really spicy dish?" "Actually…that would work. Okay

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  take a break from the sit-all-day-locked-in-my-room studying technique ... up a breakfast burrito at Qdoba and camped out in a little park just ... if I’ve ever been the first person to do <obscure thing> in <

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  happily give A's). But it's a lot easier for me to get good grades in ... . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... class to finish up the PE requirement. We are, in case you are unaware

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  better time to whip up a blog about the beginning of classes? The lighting was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging ... courses, but I've also committed to a bunch of cool side projects/UROPs that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015