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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the ... walk through the tunnels to get around campus. Tunnel66 is an interactive ... Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... powers]: Yes. Lisa: REALLY? Me: Yes. Lisa: Woah! The second time someone ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  Sigma Kappa's variety show benefits Sigma Kappa Foundation, which is the 2 ... The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  ????" Admissions blogging is a pretty new thing for me, so please don't be ... in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  tell you that the Admit Letter is 10" x 13", and the defer and deny ... --- EDITED 12/11/04 09:50 AM EST --- The postman picking up all 383 Admit Letters... Actually, this photo only shows about half of the admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least ... also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and ... workouts for us. The first night I tried, we did it outside at 11 pm, and it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , save for the mechanical whirring that plague every dorm basement, we got down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... painstakingly climbed stairs one by one for the next two days. I was essentially

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow ... could help let prefrosh know about their efforts. Their guest post is what ... post is brought to you by two trans MIT students, with quotes from our

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... -bars Of soap can last me for five semesters But I say, that's the magic of ... introduction to the city that I lived in for 15 years - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  . The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in ... ) undocumented side-effect, which is that combining also imports the footer notice ... most definitely rejected. And they didn't even apologize for the misprint

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you ... then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is ... with little time to learn the material and finish the psets for my other

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  your core values. For example, picking a restaurant is probably not the ... from a tour bus, locked myself in a bus bathroom for 10 minutes…The list ... languages. There’s a joy in learning for the sake of learning. Or petting dogs

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some < ... when I was finished: ...this is despite the fact that I moved out ... that was touched by my incessant need for a challenge. From the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat ... for admission to the Class of 2012! By the time I graduate, I will have ... school is somewhat an apprenticeship in which you prepare yourself for a

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?

  Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area—you can't do anything wrong when completing the form
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  important takeaway for any prefrosh reading this is to please not worry about ... talking about the massive quantities of free stuff (water bottles, shirts ... throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  . My saving grace for the past few weeks has been MIT time. Every class ... here. I’ve started to use Google Calendar for the first time, and now ... come to an end, which is why there’s still a movie on the way"] The

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool ... Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad Institute where they sequenced part of the human genome. - we walked

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  extension for the assignment. (Honestly, I thought the fact that I'd been wearing the same pair of sweatpants for the past three days should've be enough for them, but the medical record probably conveys that same idea

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

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  leaving your entire p-set untouched till the night before it’s due is ... ). Whatever it is, I’m here for you! As time goes on, I’ll share more of my ... stared out the window, as trees, jaywalkers, and Starbucks stores passed by

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009