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• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  died in his sleep when I was 10, back when I was barely able to hold a ... to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just… couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out ... memo too. Now, if you're going to a biannual event involving an ... jumping from side to side. To their credit, they did so quickly, but in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an ... ) until she meets a guy (or a recipe) who opens her eyes (to the miracle ... design class-in lieu of a thesis we work in groups over the course of a

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  !). In fact, a lot of us were hosed with work, so we were just going to ... needed a host to fill in for a last-minute emergency, and I happened to be ... I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is ... money each student needs in financial aid to attend MIT. We will meet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang in an a cappella group for most of college as well as college choir

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  that only uses about a third of the letters in the alphabet (x, u, c, o ... honor of standing in a semi-packed lecture hall and speed-integrating on a ... solver in each round get to have another load of integrals dumped on him

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used ... to use (stable in air, at normal temperatures and pressures) and ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake

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

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out ... it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... School, in Deerfield, Ill., says a member of the 2006 graduating class was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... in Cambridge, as well as part of Boston, and runs 24/7 - which means a ... , from 9 AM to 5:30 PM four days a week (which I took last year). This

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

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... installed in 10-250, MIT's most popular lecture hall? If not, take a quick ... then turned to page 18 where I saw the title "Seats in Renovated 10

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... was a great Friday night. I love going to college in Cambridge because ... Line in Porter Square. It was a snowy night. The grimy piles of snow

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  everyone's... but mine. In mathspeak, for all MIT students not equal to Kate ... to the rescue. You see, this summer, my sister threw her phone off a ... first one is funner to say. (Funner. It is a word. (Also, nested

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  team to finish in a combo beating the other team (ex: your team wins if ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  read the textbook. I went running. I forced myself to take a seat in the ... really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  , which is all I needed to "make" a few hacks of my own. Enjoy!     What was the best April Fool's Day prank you've pulled? Love to hear in the ... , after working on a serious blog post for a few hours, I realized what day

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry ... -processing software couldn't save me; I spent a couple hours trying to stabilize the ... 's definitely not what I expected to produce, but at least I have a basic idea of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Delivery in Spring 2020. Due to the pandemic, Ring Delivery got pushed back a ... a long line of 22s in Lobby 14 to order my Brass Rat. There were a few ... leave campus due to rising COVID-19 cases in Boston. It was a surreal and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a ... , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005