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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  There are two things MIT students love—punts and puzzles. What a puzzle is—that’s pretty straightforward. A punt is more intricate, and is typically often used as a verb. It refers…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT Sandwich In The World™: (1) Slap together week-old bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, bread. (2) Forget to add mayo.…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  all the vicissitudes of life, the ebbs and flows, the comings and goings

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  've been using since Interphase to make my life a little bit easier ... students in course 18! Life becomes a lot easier when you learn to ask for

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Jellyfishing…GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it's too late for clever puns, but I'm posting anyway!  Presently, I’m sitting here on Saturday night (well I guess it’s…

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  school life you're in). "Just do your best," (lol just) is quite an open ... , and enjoy the simple things in life! There are always tradeoffs involved

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair…. As I attempted to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center……

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  delicious!  Bonfire Kitchen 19:47-21:47 (Almost) Life-Sized Settlers of Catan Come play (almost) life-sized Settlers of Catan! Hoard sheep, wheat ... have one life to give for this pillowfight.  Black Hole Lounge 9

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  Hey y’all, My god I can’t believe it! It has been almost 2 months since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance practices…

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  This Friday, August 10th, will mark three years to the day since I began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for a little while.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging frosh-to-be, my spot's still taken, but we're looking for more bloggers

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh staring wide-eyed with smiles plastered on their face being carted from free food and festivity time and…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... 'll meet the love of your life. Who knows?  If you're

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  [by Xenia Antipova ’13] The very first time I heard of Richard Wagner was many years ago, in a summer novel: an elegant, cultured but boorish man took the heroine…

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  people that you meet that make the wealth of life. It's this group of ... wonderful chapter of my life. Gymnasium Untergriesbach, I have one last thing

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  ’m trying to figure out if I can be a grownup and still like comic books. Life ... up doing with my life. 18.03: Differential Equations I no

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, ’87) and I spent some time here at the Institute. My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his name,…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  Happy Valentine’s Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven’t been trying to avoid blogging… but the last week of IAP was spent taking…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012