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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look ... out about the MIT sororities before going to CPW, so this was a perfect

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena ... broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to ... , both to those who were admitted and those who were not. From reading ... the last several months, as you have been waiting to find out your

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Mystery Hunt Puzzle A Taste of Things to Come...

  

  molecular orbital diagrams. You still have a 14.01 pset to do, before the sun ... , you decide to return to your 14.01, for it is due in 11 hours. Luckily, the solutions to this puzzle will be posted before Sunday. :) ps. psst

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Beautiful .

  

  It's beautiful. My newest junior lab experiment. I want to share it with you. Hang on.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think of it as a stack, as opposed to a queue - so I cover things that happened more recently first. So obviously, I need to cover what I did over

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... Eastern Europeans to the MIT Global Startup Workshop conference, I hopped

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat until 4 pm, sometimes a college student has to take some responsibility

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  .) On Sunday when I heard there was going to be yet another snow storm ... morning 6 inches of beautiful packing snow graced the MIT campus - ready to ... court we decided to make a giant snowman in front of the great dome

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... running around trying to taste a few. Which makes me sound like a fifth ... room, not to mention three (count 'em) umbrellas. In case you're curious

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but ... invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... to maybe 20-25% of the students in each year. But it's big enough that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could ... .k.a. "Slugfest") hall in the East Campus dorm. According to the Slugfest wiki

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  This will be short, because I'm about to start another 2.671 (Mechanical Engineering Institute Lab Class) experiment, but I had to share with ... Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... over, you've gotten more work than you know what to do with, and a ... day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  I have this wonderful thing called free time, I'm ready to start blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... order, which often happens on surveys we're asked to fill out. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  will be sleepless nights. There will be weeks you have to choose which work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will be weeks where you feel like you're not good enough. Just remember to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first ... - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should know that we will be looking to hire almost exclusively incoming freshmen to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007