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• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  end of the building, then walk up back to the same level. For my FPOP ... MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  real feel for academic culture in India. The freedom to pursue topics ... /Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating ... , postdocs, visitors, etc. from all over the world. I was exposed to big ideas

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  people for years and years and they're all starting to drive me crazy, I ... for admissions work, but for years it has been taken over by students ... . No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  for inspiration? Let me introduce you to a few really wonderful ... "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  for me. i woke up to grey skies and decided to go back to bed for ... often the entirety of my tuesday. aka introduction to algorithms, and for ... shaped too awkwardly for me to plaster posters all over them again

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... mentoring for them for most of my time at mit and have really loved it ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the monsters in our closet ready to jump out at us. If you’re feeling like ... other doors than just the one on pi day you are waiting to open.  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the ... graduated last year came to visit for a weekend, and we had brunch at the ... happy about it because, for like the first time, we get to take full

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  as fast as possible, enjoying the flavor for a second and moving on to ... not THAT bad. This craving is just strong enough to make you go off in search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  was crazy. Time for holiday cheer. But no time to get lazy. 2nd ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go ... it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We ... GRTs on my floor - hereon refered to as B1 (Burton 1, first floor of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  surprise care-package from my mom (contents: Best of Mr. Bean DVD), to name a few things. But I'll have to save those for another post because we have ... happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  ). For your benefit, so you can all get to know each other in one central ... 'll hear from me after that :) However, in the meantime: Congratulations to ... " groups started to form; however, there was one semi-official one that we

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... office? we're going to the mfa for a film (sleepwalking through the mekong ... for the film ( a travelogue of sorts from Dengue Fever's visit to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened to be my birthday), and what do you know? My train broke down! I spent ... made the most of my time by studying for my neuroanatomy exam, but I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It won't feel real until Mail Services comes to pick up the packages later today. Matt likes to blog a picture of the mail folks leaving with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow ... stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new ... Blog Squad, Technology Review Colleges using blogs to attract students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  While everybody else pores over equation sheets for 6.041 or 10 ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to ... big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  office) and will be making their way to your mailboxes accordingly. (For ... decisions to bed. The weather here was so bad that nothing moved on Friday. As ... automatically begin to spaz as soon as you read this. Don't. Just wait and see

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005