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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her college decision is up for a vote (aren't you glad all college decisions aren't made this way?). For the next week, you can vote on Alex

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  family. Then I flew back to campus for three weeks of IAP, which I filled ... to any of them, just living is enough. ... to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked ... )? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can ... is on par if not a little less expensive than living in a dorm

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm ... being able to be someone who lived 4 years on one hall, or even in one ... , or any floor or hall of BC or EC. I would have liked to live some

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  awesome hands-on class that gives students a taste of what it takes to ... into finals :) Best of luck to all of you waiting on your decisions ... At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  ’s a bit of a Star Wars nut, and recently, he’s been on a quest to build and fly one of every ship in Wookieepedia. Step one, obviously, is to ... Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  The Barkowitz Blog, which is both clever and informative on the topic of ... , which I think is a bit more clever and less Fox News-y. For the history of ... MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  list is just a subset of the many parties going on) Saturday Reno, Nevada ... admitted to the Class of 2011. If there's one in your area, you should check ... all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is ... live on campus in their freshman year. And no one wants to spend his or ... policy is a staunch supporter of Affirmative Action.) OK. Are you ready to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G i ... door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... open and close his door. Whether you believe him or not, I have to admit

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  committee. More likely though, it is due to my sluggish 40-something metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... , almost 85 percent of MIT students will have collaborated on research. Chew

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things are just so, professors and students organize tons of events to show off

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... foundation is left behind, for the next generation of the MIT community to make ... … all I can really think of is the places. The infinite. Killian Court

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  overenrollment of previous years) and thus it is more likely that this year will have some waitlist admits. Whether you stay on the list or not is a ... does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  desensitized to the brutality. It is not enough to change the practices of police ... all, is something which we don't seem to want to look at, and that is ... started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  attending either ETH or the University of Zurich, from undergrads to Ph ... abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... three **25-lb** boxes of chocolate chips, which all went to filling the ... years ago. While there are 120 girls in AXO, there is only room for 25 to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  campus, since that's one of the hardest things to do when the semester is ... working on a bunch of cool video projects while more relaxing things like catching up on my movie/book/TV show list fell by the wayside. Not to mention

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015