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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  The Forbes blogs broke an interesting story early last week that I went absolutely nuts over, and I’m so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  the most out of your life, theres a simple pseudo-algorithm for you: if

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  Wait wait! Stop! Hold the presses! I have one more thing to add to the CPW schedule! What’s that? The schedules have all already been printed and are sitting in…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  . Friday • Head up near Iowa State University in Ames and hear about life in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in life. Last semester's demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  drinking from a firehose; rest assured, there are times when life at MIT gets

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL COMPUTERS, or, Cheaply Destroying My Life For Fun And ... microcosm of life at MIT. Rather than being bored or struggling with a dearth

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  get to go to Europe for the first time in my life! (2) Teaching's funnn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  QUOTE: “Coming from Stanford [before MIT’s CPW], I actually bought a Stanford pen because I really liked the campus but staying here over CPW I now regret that I even…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  I know you’ve had a lot on your mind this past week, so I understand if you’ve forgotten that CPW is less than 3 weeks away! More importantly, did you…

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  again the following year. Life takes twists and turns, but even a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  sex life, the measles.... wait, back it up. Since I've gone and missed

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  'd known you all my life When we reached Twenty Third. (Boy) You won my heart

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from reticent affection to soul-consuming infatuation. Apologies before I go any further: if you expected me to write about…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  mention school and real life), I do need to mention one vital part of the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  strong and supportive community life. Read on... Stepping up to bat in ... than ever before in my life," he said. "I feel like MIT is where I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  So it’s mid July, Summer is well underway, all the major Holidays have passed (read: the 4th) so what’s your favorite blogger up to? I don’t know, I’ll go ask…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  turns out that, much like a gourmet pretzel, life is full of twists. On ... challenged to a life-or-death game of bingo. Kip, however, was a worthy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of ... real punchline is that Winnie's recommendation changed my life, or at least the part of my life that has a serious emotional investment in pork

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... the sentence you've all been waiting for: life is full of ... about my life's goal of designing solid-state polymer batteries. I emailed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009