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• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... literally wept in the center suite of my floor, a senior took my hand and told ... floor formal. Formal is something I’ve been looking forward to for a while

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  fountain. And, to add a little more class, they also had an awesome jazz band ... [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the Safe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  ? Check. And a serenade? Check! Thanks to our secret admirers, the ... finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... , many of those have moved; NECCO moved to a nearby Boston suburb several

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  book to a screenplay- obviously they needed to cut some things out in ... movie flow really nicely in a way that was coherent and true to story (if ... gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance ... :                                                                                           View from the second floor:     Splash is a day-long event in which ... " to "Salsa Dancing". Students in grades 9-12 can sign up for classes and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a ... , Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were ... has been twelve years. I am so very old. A lot has happened in the last

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  temperature ever recorded was -18 degrees in 1934. - According to the Old Farmer ... normal in Maine, but a degree or two colder than normal elsewhere, on ... and gusty wind, pray your brisk Winter's walk allows a speedy arrival to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  -shirts, which were made by the good folks in LUChA. Awesome. Math question: if ... Salvador read a given application before Amy? First person to answer ... application (assuming you were in the applicant pool)? Knowing that each app

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  in a vacuum - when you come to Cambridge, you have signed up to be ... (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House ... 't even a joke it's the MathCounts Plank Tournament in the Next House

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard ... If you were in Boston sometime these past few nights and glanced

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  seems to have taken a rather enthusiastic interest in mentoring the course ... , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I ... until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short ... , and some visits to firms like Eleven, THE MEME, and even a hardware accelerator called Bolt. They also get a chance to explore the city of Boston

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code ... water war (in the middle of the snow), and a Nutella eating contest. Only

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  wonderful, down to earth, person. Tune in next time for a life update! My ... lucky enough to video tape. Covering topics from why he majored in physics ... further ado I present to you "Walter Lewin ESG Lecture" in all its 68

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  play, I was lucky enough to get a tractor in the bonus barn, netting me ... photos from my phone to my computer, and I'm a college student and just can ... purcahsed a lottery ticket in my otherwise typical suburban life. So, on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... to mention in music composition, and in ethnomusicology? So I asked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... carrying dirty laundry. I couldn’t run off to Boston at a moment's notice. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017