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• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  It feels a little strange seeing CPW from a host's perspective this ... world ‚ô• I haven't quite made it to all the CPW events that have taken ... :) Still, I've made it to some events - and they've been great. First off

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these ... finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go ahead and publish them. It's been a real pleasure, and great privilege. If

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  's "We're Linux" contest and it's been doing quite well. If you liked the entry, I'd really appreciate it if you took a moment to vote for it online

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  advertisement. Seriously, it warmed my heart. An advertisement for Western ... it.) If anyone has seen a more nerdy/cute billboard, I'd like to hear about it. Until then, I'll consider this one to be the best.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Commencement and MIDAS (a.k.a. the party button). Check it out. Marsha Bolton hosts this episode, and it features some interviews I conducted with ... from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tomorrow is MacVicar day! Tomorrow is MacVicar day. See poster presentations by MIT students who have made an impact…

  

  worldwide. It should be an exciting celebration of student achievements in research and public service, and it would be wonderful if you could come to ... ! do it!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  Many of you have already received it, but for those of you anxiously ... were the "fathers/mothers" of the project. I'm happy to see it continue. Hopefully it will assist all of you with your housing choices. What is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  It's definitely the busiest time of the year for application reading ... several tables over from me also seemed to be reading applications. As it ... school; she works in their admissions office. As it turns out, I had just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  MIT hacking is legendary among college pranks. MIT culture distinguishes itself not only for its seriousness of purpose but also for its ... Earth. The bridge still displays its quirky unit of the measure today
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  was busy, sure, but it wasn't a disaster. Practice working harder ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if times are hard, I'll pass, purge classes but I shan’t have lied. It’s true

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... treadmill" is the straightest path through MIT. It means doing the basic ... into the highest paying job you can find because it's there. Earlier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on shape and the prominent beaver on its bezel, but the specific details of ... at MIT, Mitra '07 was a member of her class's RingComm. It's all kind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I ... setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... and correlating it with EKG and all sorts of other stuff. For lab 9

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to leave it alone without its partner Ring Delivery. And seeing as the Brass ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... my colleagues are still asleep - they deserve it! I'm sitting here reflecting on the class we just admitted and feeling incredible about it. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me ... , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been checking off activities ever since. Now that it's my *final* year, I think I have to step-up to the plate and complete it! For the skeptics (and photo

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  's house in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been great, and I might even have ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... implications for the field. I've even heard it compared to the Human Genome

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library ... see from the pictures, it was a beautiful venue which I had never been ... like my marriage to MIT was formalized. Sounds lame...but it's true. My

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because ... can choose to delay this it would only delay the inevitable ... that! and it's genuine, really (I like the praise), which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022