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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  first time. Its electric motor lasted exactly the entire hour we rented it ... tell me what the bug in the upper right corner is (and how much of a bad idea it was to get that close).   The world often gives us a gentle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I’m enjoying it so far, and I have to admit that it is a good feeling when your ... quite right. I’m not sure I will use Java in my future, but I suppose it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Polaroid artifacts, of Polaroid's future plans to publicize its digital images and digitize its public image. (Grapevines for the curious: Polaroid ... someone had stolen my pillow and replaced it with a laptop. Except the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  River and the bay glittered like uncut gems in the light. It took me but a ... . It was so beautiful I didn't want the plane to land. II. Almost ... -blowingly beautiful. But it's not the same. Is everything just a matter of perspective

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  : do you know anything about that? Diana: definitely...it was a smash ... every year Diana: they'd throw it onto amhearst alley Diana: then they ... good friends of mine got it all started again and threw one off the

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  how to dance. You know what that means? When you go to a party and there's dancing, you can shake it, much like one might shake a Polaroid picture, however you want to shake it, and nobody's going to care or judge you or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come ... -D humanities class, so lots of people take it, course 9 or not. In the student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  ! Mitra was all, "oh, let's run 8 miles, Spammy" and I haven't learned how ... , and then I came home and passed out on my floor for two hours. Ah, it ... to Harvard, which of course takes its name from the fantastic Harvard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  Having read MIT applications for a long time now, I know that MIT ... wanted to share it with you ... it must have the potential to make a positive contribution to society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  People sometimes say that it doesn't matter where you go for undergrad, as long as you go somewhere spectacular for grad school. I have ... don't even remember what it approximately was. I got a few B+'s and a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... 've fixed it now, but I still sometimes manually make pink water out of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  really apply for it (you automatically get in if you have above a certain ... .), which is why it's called a Master of Engineering degree and not a Master ... about repetitive stress injuries (RSI), so you know TAing it has to be a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  it. We think it would have helped middle school Allan and Danny to read ... want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York ... public elementary school, lets call it school A. In school A, we made

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  seek at Briggs Field. I placed [annotation note="It seemed unlikely ... location over another, so it was hard to predict the actions of other players ... Field. In the next section, I talk about how this actually worked out for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned ... for themselves. There's an online guide to all events, but since it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  It's been a bit more than two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and we know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list ... the time and effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... in order to learn how to win at high school, college applications, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for ... you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  geek (like me), it's hard not to be fascinated by perfect numbers and ... 'll play this as a guessing game: how many freshman applications do you think

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007