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• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  OCW site, and how much fun it is to do MIT psets. Hey, I've got some ... and joined the cheerleading squad; it assured her that I hadn't been ... calc) with me one time my freshman year. The only thing she got out of it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  me, many times over. It turns out local graduates in my field are favored over candidates from outside the region. It made for a nervous 1-2 years. A pal gruffly rejected my hug; it later comes to pass they do not

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  , and the nation, to do better. So I wanted to make sure we shared it here so our prospective students and parents could see it if they wanted ... in our CMS, so I ripped it down and reuploaded. The original, with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  creativity (and how frickin weird they are...gotta love it). Eating your ... the Apple Bake in the last blog post that was made about it from back in ... ! I wish I'd been able to participate this year—it's sad that we won

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  , which is part of how housing is assigned. According to MIT's Dormitory ... online. Reading it can be a uniquely good guide to understanding what the ... if you want to idly flip through it. Hopefully some of the bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  I've blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin '16 ... .e., it's her job to make sure that Bitcoin and related technologies help ... ecosystem as it continues to develop, or, more specifically, a home for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  Jamilla Jamison (formerly of our office, now at Harvey Mudd), about how to ... a 'lay explanation', i.e. to describe it to us as you would to an ... growing up was a researcher. If they had, I think I might have done it, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  would it be and why?" Kumail thought I was referencing a bit he had done ... !" (These are both examples he gave when trying to define it.) I guess it's sort of a measurement of how much your behavior mimics his life, which

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  , wasn't it?:P When President Reif came up to speak, I'm sure more than half of us knew what to expect. After all, it must be had to shake things ... companies founded by MIT graduates would get together and form a country, it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  admitted students can enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to ... admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best choice for yourself), or ... 't make it for CPW, don't despair, you can still come visit through our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  just a little bit; still can't get over how exotic edamame sounds. I ... IAP sucked up nearly 9 hours every week, but thank god for it I ... scratched elbow, I feel it's harder and harder to turn back and say "I don

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... roll back over me after we attempted to budge it from rest. Luckily, a ... . None of us could believe that it actually worked, and more importantly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... this by just 3 days. Now, you understand why CPW is as jam-packed as it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  married this year, it's not horribly unlikely that we'd be getting married ... in June, July, and September). 3. BUT you'd have to figure that it ... below the female median marriage age of 25.3. I'm not sure how to figure

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball ... Whew, I’m exhausted even thinking about it! In all seriousness, this IAP ... (it’s like OpenCourseWare but for lab work. I’ll be blogging about it in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to prove it to you? Aww, here goes. Today I ate a grape lollipop that Save ... grape flavor diffusion into my mouth. Specifically, I wondered how I could

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  's captains, if we could cheer for a little while. How could we say no?) After ... for the football game. It wasn't raining, exactly, but it was humid and ... ) rendition of "Row Row Row Your Boat" when the fans began singing it to taunt

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  me the hardest time was: "NDECOINI" Let's see if you can figure it out ... because the fans get really into it. We then went over to Pour House ... about it with someone), then had some pizza with friends, and that was

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It ... exploration at MIT and if MIT has its way to help people find interests and in ... Management Science at the end of my junior junior year. How do students choose

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  world, often setting or leading trends in contemporary art. It helped ... prominence. Basically it’s a big show that the Whitney puts on every two years, with a different overarching theme each time. It’s known for 1) focusing

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024