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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  Listen to this awesome, late 1950s song. Now try to picture me ... . over. and. over. Like I am now, except now I'm not dancing to it. After ... pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this ... ? Perhaps this sounds great to you, but perhaps you are wondering – “so what

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  /bio/chem till my brain feels like it's dying. And then I go to lab and do things ... stretches all the way to and sometimes out of the door. 2. At any given time ... occasionally refer to this Starbucks as an extension of their offices. Not that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw ... pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this summer” post. I’m working at Microsoft! Ok, post over, back to work/weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which ... suburban Coach bus that will take them to work. Inspiring!) I’m interning at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... be applying alongside me. In the days leading to fateful moment, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  the campus life center, gently harassed a staff member to let me use his ... those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater ... Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a peaceful coexistence that had propelled their various nations to glory. But ... , discovered to have fully populated an entire continent by herself, with cities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy ... places I visited during my CPW, and I encourage you all to visit it as well ... to get involved with the radio station and have my very own show

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... sincerely apologize if she wasn't able to sign your forms after I skipped out ... earlier tonight while waiting for iTunes to load*. *Not that this is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  few weeks ago, I was heading over to my sorority house to study one ... going? me: Back to the house… to study…. Them: False. You’re coming with ... like this. It was a bad week.) Needless to say, I am not about to walk

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... unless I'm being paid to do so. When my alarm clock goes off in the morning

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it ... personal enthusiasm levels inversely proportional to the temperature, though this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  most represented, and what is the most populous country to have no MIT ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  freshman class starting school tomorrow, it's strange to think that I won't be returning to my beloved 254 suite in Burton-Conner, hanging out with ... times a day. I miss MIT dearly, but feel so lucky to've experienced even

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008